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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.And you could do the exact same exercise the other way around, pointing out times that some of the board's bigger homers refused to acknowledge the flaws that did, in fact, end up ending the Pats' season. And whatever poster felt the need to take a weird victory lap over that and call out everyone who had the audacity to be incorrect would be engaging in an equally pointless circlejerk.
Everyone who's been here for more than a few minutes has been wrong from time to time, and nobody really claims otherwise. That's what makes the whole thing so dumb.
A few reasons that apply to some but not all:Each season there is a race among the negative people and the homers to "call it" one way or the other just so they can point to being "right" all along.
Criticise away on the current performance because god knows the offense in particular is giving a lot of ammunition for that. But what is the point of big picture statements if we have more than enough evidence that they won't be much better than rolling a dice.
Anyone who doesn't see last season as a prime example of this will never learn. The team was 9-5 looking mediocre down the stretch and went on to win the freaking Super Bowl.I don't get how you are missing the point there. Nobody is taking any victory laps about being right or wrong. Doing that is exactly the dumbass behaviour that is so frustrating.
This is about stepping away from the very same grand proclamations that a season is over, calling players "done" or the infamous "this year feels different" when we go through the same thing essentially every year. Each season there is a race among the negative people and the homers to "call it" one way or the other just so they can point to being "right" all along. It is almost as they care more about being right than whatever the team ends up accomplishing.
And every year we see that -- apart from seeding -- the regular season is not some authoritative indicator about how anything in the postseason will go.
Criticise away on the current performance because god knows the offense in particular is giving a lot of ammunition for that. But what is the point of big picture statements if we have more than enough evidence that they won't be much better than rolling a dice.
Anyone who doesn't see last season as a prime example of this will never learn. The team was 9-5 looking mediocre down the stretch and went on to win the freaking Super Bowl.
The team was 9-5 looking mediocre down the stretch and went on to win the freaking Super Bowl.
Your first sentence is precisely my point. This team potentially can look much improved a month from now.Sadly, past performance is no guarantee of future results. I'd probably be more confident if I'd seen some kind of upward trend to the offense but as yet I haven't. I am hopeful that the wretched LB play for Houston was the result of the flu. Then again, RBs and TEs in space have been this team's Achilles heel all season. I don't see that ending this Sunday. I am hopeful that BB has schemes planned for the playoffs.
Your first sentence is precisely my point. This team potentially can look much improved a month from now.
All around the NFL we have such extreme examples of this. Sometimes it can’t even be explained as teams just turn it around/lose it despite having the same personnel.