No need to be sorry. You could indeed see it coming. Phillips injury really gutted me - I was at that game and we lost Holland too. Then the Chubb injury was the nail in the coffin where I felt any hope of a SB run go out the window. Last night they put a graphic up that showed our defensive starters who were out:
Howard
Phillips
Baker
Chubb
Van Ginkel
Holland
And they circled the edge guys and said “that’s 25 sacks not on the field” - basically half of our sack total. That’s also 4 pro bowl or near-pro bowl level players. And Baker - as we saw in the bit he played vs Buffalo - is a lot better than his backups.
Crazy thing is, even w the injuries, Fangio ran his mash unit well - the last two weeks the guys played well enough to win had our offense not regressed to the state that it did.