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Winning ugly... it's our thing. And I finally accept it

heelsrule1988

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The first four weeks of the season, I was insanely frustrated because we weren't blowing out teams we should blow out. But guess what? We won all those games. And we're still winning games. And we haven't lost any games yet this season. Would it be nice to blow someone out and play flawlessly? Of course it would. But I've finally accepted the fact that, as long as we win... who cares how we do it? All that matters is the W. And we have six of them so far this season... along with ZERO losses. So keep on winning ugly, loves of my life. Because you're WINNING. And that's what's most important.

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We play a slow game, via Defense and Running the ball.   the good news is that it will keep us in every game, bad news is it will keep the Other team in the game, but unless they can run the ball better then us or play defense better then us, it's not going to matter and we will win.  

So far we havent played anyone that has been able to dictate the game to us, we've been the team that's been setting the pace. I'm curious to see what happens when we play Green Bay, our Defense is sneakly elite, we have 4 players on Defense that should be leading the NFC voting(Short, Norman, Luke, Davis), and that's a scary level of talent considering.

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