[cowboykiller89]

Originally Posted by JWsleep

What's funny is, if we had pulled that game out (and it was close despite all these "obvious" problems), we'd all be saying how good we are. And of course, we'd be going overboard in that case as well.

I'll take Gibbs at his word now--we are inconsistent, but the problems can be readily fixed. This isn't surprising at all on offense given the new system. On D, our lack of secondary health restricted the blitz, a big o-line stuffed our front four, and Brad Johnson was his usual accurate self. He's a vet who reads Ds well and gets rid of it quick--all this made Williams reluctant to Blitz, and that means it isn't really Williams D at its best. Next week, we'll see a lot more blitzing, for good or ill.

But the bottom line is, we aren't as good as the hype made us out to be, but we aren't NEARLY as bad as some nay-sayers here would have it, IMHO. As Gibbs would say, up here it's tough to win. We have to play better. Can we do it? Jeeze, do you really think it's IMPOSSIBLE for us to play better? Of course we can. And given our coaching staff, my guess is that we will. Hang in there, people!

I totally agree. The first one is out of the way and wasn't so bad, it could have been worse. Everything will come together within the next three to four weeks.