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Shough didn’t outplay anyone. We had our DBs 10 yards deeper than every route. We certainly weren’t stopping TMac on 3rd and 5 when he ran one lard short. Their D was right there keeping him to 4 yards. I honestly thought our D play calling made Shough and his no namers to look like Joe to Jerry. Bryce wasn’t a HOFer today but his supporting cast and coaches were awful today.

Could easily have won. Bad personal and coaching decisions and Young was not the problem at all IMHO. I’ll still be there Sunday so hopefully we don’t blow that one as badly as we blew this one.

Honestly, not me. The coaching and other players were far more responsible to the loss. Bryce was fine and did enough.

One? Lol. I’ve never seen anyone so adept at making sure you aren’t perceived as incorrect. There was one defensive formation in the last seconds of the game that cost us. Our poo ass clock management in the two minute offense cost us a chance at a TD instead of a FG. 4 more points wins the game. We also went for it on 4th and 1 in the 4th quarter and didn’t get it. A 50 yard FG puts us up 10 to a team that has scored 7 points in 3 quarters. I’m not even going to discuss the multitude of bad play calls throughout the game but those 3 coaching decisions all contributed to a loss instead of a relatively easy win. Again, I’m sure I’ll see a response but I’m not going to bother to read it because it’ll be some sort of bad explanation of how I’m thinking something else.

Hmm, judging by results? Lol. We got 7 turnovers and a pick 6 lost by 11 and won by 3. We got swept by a team that’s 2-10 against everyone else. We got out coached and out played by a shitty team today. My main point that you still missed is that this team is not 1 draft away and our coaches and GM staff have not done enough to be lauded to the point that they have built a contender. We aren’t close. Our best players weren’t there when we needed them.

Disgusting and trash ass play today.

It wasn’t a catch.

Horn is terrible. I’m sorry but he has so many bad plays that overtake his good ones. He (and CSW) have given up 250 yards. Horn lost the prior Saints game and is doing his damnedest to lose this one.

We are. This should be over. As “bad” as the D has been they have given up 10 points. We scored 7 on our first drive of the game and barely any since. Instead of getting a 10 point lead we run the same play and get stopped. We don’t run 5 yards out on 3rd and 5.

We better win this effin game. Doing everything we can to screw it up but are still ahead.

Hate that we can never sneak the ball.

SMH. D better hold up. This should not be a game. We’ve dpne all that we can to keep them in the game.

The sloppiness today after a bye is awful. The coaching has been pretty damn poor today.

He’s an EFRA I’m 2026 and an RFA in 2027. We’ve got him for his 3rd and 4th year easily with no worries unless someone wants to give us a 1st for him.

Awful. Instead of calling a timeout after TMac’s catch and get a good call We waste 30 seconds and lose yardage on a TE screen with no blockers. So dumb.

Ridiculous. fuging Iky and a stupid penalty and now it’s tied.

@Mr. Scot See this post? That’s what I’m talking about. One more good draft and we’re a SB contender? Good to go means that. I’m optimistic that we can win the division, if we can beat NO but I am not optimistic that one more good draft (not one draft since 2018 is that good) gets us to a SB contender.

Lol. Sorry man, I was 100% right that you missed the point. I’m actually expecting us to win because I think we should beat NO and it seems like Tampa is in a huge rut and we’ll be at home. That’s why I bought tickets for the Tampa game. Not wanting to praise our front office/HC and act like the team is built <> being optimistic about winning the division. This place has a tendency to laud GMs and/or coaches way too early and often act like they had an amazing draft. Remember how much you liked Fitterer? I do.

I’m sorry man, but I have no idea what you are talking about. I think you missed my point.

If we beat NO and beat Tampa on the 21st, that’s it. No 2 up with 2 games to go, we are done. The loss to Atlanta and a win at NO means that if we split with Tampa, we get the tiebreaker with a better division record. That’s why we have to beat NO. We do that and we have a home game to clinch the division.

Read my post above. I’ve got my tickets for Tampa so I’m hopeful we win. I hate lauding threads that are way premature. They scream bad luck.

You don’t get what I’m saying. Optimistic in this case was due to a praising thread like we’ve reached the top. I’m having fun this season and I’m optimistic that we can take the division. I’m not heaping praise on our front office and HC yet. We aren’t close to done and we’ve (including you) had a bad habit of putting the cart before the horse since 2017. When Rhule went 3-0, we had all kinds of talk about how we get the 1 seed. How about we cheer and root for the team and hope we beat NO first before we laud our front office for getting us to 7-6 in the worst division in the NFL. When we start throwing around praise, we’ve come up short for 8 straight years. I’ve walked this street before and if we had prime Cam, CMC, Olsen, Luke, Short and TD, I wouldn’t bat an eye, but this team has been a bit of an abusive relationship lately.

Lol. I know. We’ve got a whole thread about the ups and downs. We still have a chance at the playoffs if we can stop losing after every win. I just hate the heaps of praise on our front office when we’ve still got a ton of real holes even with some really good wins.

I really hate when we get this optimistic and act like this team is right at the cusp. We beat the Rams by 3 even though we had a pick 6, forced another 3 turnovers, had no turnovers and scored two long TDs on 4th down. All that and we still needed Brown to strip Stafford to keep them from forcing OT. I’m all in and will be at next week’s game but we aren’t anything like some of our past playoff teams that were legitimate SB contenders. We’re just the only team above .500 (by a half game) in the worst division. There is still a lot of work to be done and we still need good drafts. Tet’s been great but Scourton and Princely aren’t blowing up. A lot of playing time but man we still need more top players. One or two injuries to our stars and we suck.

Yea and they did. They won the titles in 2002, 2014 and 2024, but the games were all played in January of the NFL year we went to the SB. OSU championship happens first and then the NFL year starts with us playing Jax week 1 and then we go to the SB.