Positives from yesterdays game

[SteveSmithGaveMeAShiner]

Agree with everyone that Cam looks great in the pocket when given time to throw. KB and Philly Brown are both useful weapons that should stick around for a while.

[backINblack28]

But would they get blown out in back to back games?

 

Are you asking for help playing the game or being condescending?  Because if you want my opinion, I think yes is the more likely answer.

 

If you look at our game, you get rid of one 12 men on the field penalty, and you score points on the first drive where we were moving the ball and in field goal range before getting sacked, that's at the very least a 10 point swing right there.  Then if you take away the fumble by a 5th string practice squad RB, there we are, right in the game.  Not to mention their garbage lucky TD that could have just as easily bounced the other way.  

 

Same with the Steelers IMO.  You take away a couple of penalties, the muffed punt, etc, we're right in the game.  I think with a fully healthy team both of those games could have gone completely differently.  Look at our offense on the field against the Steelers without DWill, JStew and Tolbert.  No Cotchery.  No Avant.  We're relying completely on two rookie WRs and our TE.

 

I get where our relative expectations might have been going in but if you would have told me we'd be 2-2 after 4 games while having to play 2 games without significant contributions from our starting RBs/Thomas Davis/2 of our starting WR, I would take it in a heartbeat.  I think most of us would have taken 2-2 here regardless of the circumstances after last year and in general across a tough part of a 4 game schedule.  I'm not happy with the way the last 2 weeks have gone, but it's much easier to go about fixing your problems when:

 

1. The biggest one involves injuries that aren't season-ending.

2. You're leading your division.