It was over weeks ago. We all knew that.
We've seen this from all these guys before. We've seen it from guys over and over and over who've been here longer than McDaniel.
Adversity doesn't make character. It reveals it. The way we played when Tua was out showed we were dogs, not dawgs. McDaniel, in a month, couldn't tweak his "offensive wizardry" to give anyone with a skillset other than Tua's a chance to succeed. Nothing on this team has performed consistently good. We had no room for errors, and this team made plenty of unforced errors even when it won.
The irony about tonight was that special teams has been an Achilles' heel for years, and Danny Crossman has been coaching the special teams for years, and apparently no one in this organization can read a stat sheet to notice it and make a change. And Malik Washington was having trouble picking up the ball in the air on punts multiple times last week, and apparently no one was watching while that was on the field happening to make an adjustment.
So tonight we come out and overcome one bad special teams play with a great defensive first series only to have it wiped out by an apocalyptic special teams mistake that was easily foreseeable, and our Tin Woodsman team gave up once that happened because it doesn't have a heart.
There was never a way we were playing perfect football for two months. Never was going to happen. Now maybe Ross will break form and realize it's time for big changes. He won't, though, because he's Ross, a name synonymous with football failure since he grew up loving the Jets.
