1. Our O-line may not be the best in the league. It is good.
2. Our Defense may not have pulled out the magic stop. It is,however, good.
3. Our receiving corps many have faded down the stretch. It is good.
4. Our QB may not have been himself in the SB. He is good.
5. Josh McDaniel may not have scored more than 14 on Sunday. But he scored a record number of points the rest of the season. He is good until proven otherwise.
Get your head around it, guys, this is a very good football team. We need to upgrade and shore up in specific areas.
But everything that was good all year did not suddenly turn to shlitz. We lost a big game. That is it - not, "we were sketchy all season and it caught up to us." We simply lost a big game.
You always try to get better, anywhere you can. We'll see the cap situation start settling out, and that will tell us how much we have for groceries, how much restructuring has to happen, etc.
Bear in mind we can get some of what we want, in terms of talent. The rest of the edge we need, we will get through the draft and through what I think is still a damn good coaching staff.
Fire Josh McDaniels? Right now, you have got to be high. He needs to do a lot more slipping than that to get sh**-canned. Something tells me he's got a very, very bright future ahead of him.
And think about this: do you think for one minute he takes himself out of the running for a HC position preemptively, if he thinks "I'll never get this chance again! It was all the talent around me, and they're buying it!"
No, he thinks he needs to get back and win a super bowl before taking over a team of his own... and making that decision tells me he's not some lost little chump out there. He knows what he's about, you just disagree with him sometimes.
Why no 3 TE sets in the SB? Spach didn't make the trip. Why not kick the 45-yarder? Because Gostkowski couldn't keep the ball within the field on the previous kickoff. Should they have trusted him? Eh, sure. Maybe. But they did the quick math and said "screw it... we're going for it."
Know what I thought about that one? They kept doing these things that looked like they would be "momentum changers," these "blow the game open" plays that would punch a hole in those pesky passrushing Giants. But it never happened.
For every game plan that never works out, the flip side is, if it did, he'd be a genius. It's a matter of how many of each kind you come up with. So far it looks like he comes up with a lot more good than bad... but of course, it IS the week after a SB loss.
PFnV