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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.I feel like the difference between being really good or really bad is often a handful of plays. In that way, there's definitely hope that if the offense turns around, it can happen in a hurry.
This article may be wishful thinking.
On the other hand how is anyone helped by constantly being negative?
I was watching a video about previous super bowls today, and one thing that gives me hope this year: I forgot how GOD AWFUL Peyton Manning was in 2015. Just atrocious. QB Rating under 70 for the year. 9 TD's, 17 Ints. In the playoffs his best rating game was against us at 90.1, but they only scored 20 points and he had 174 yards passing total. In the Super Bowl he threw for a 140 and was sacked 5 times, but they won by multiple scores (and the game felt wider than that), because the defense played lights out. I don't think the Pats D is as good as that Denver D was right now, but man... even with this supporting cast I have a hard time seeing Brady play worse than Manning did that year.
Maybe I'm just a Brady homer but I feel like he starts to get it going in the next couple weeks.
This is the key point right there. They're not going to get better by assuming they can't improve. They're going to focus on what they can do to be better, right up until the last play of the season.
I feel like if Karras comed back soon plus Harry and Sanu emerging as threats then this offense could improve greatly...
I think the corollary to that is "the difference between good and bad is often less than half a second". Whether that is a lineman holding up just not long enough, Brady being slightly inaccurate or a WR taking one step too long to be uncovered.
I am still pretty optimistic given how the A22 footage looks. Overall skill players are getting open, Brady throws with enough accuracy and zip and if the OL can get a grip everything changes.
I'd much rather put my faith into the offense led by the GOAT to improve drastically over the next 3-4 weeks than one of the weaker defenses we had in the 2010s.