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Hot Take? That Was A Positive Game For Us

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29 minutes ago, PNW_PantherMan said:

This is such a bad take.  This game is in no way a step forward for the team.  What a joke.

Really?

We hung with one of the best teams in the NFC, in the rain, on the road, in the most hostile stadium in the league.

I'm not happy with the loss, there are still lots of things that need to be improved upon, clearly.

But to not think we looked better today than in the first 2 weeks is just being angry to be angry.  We looked god awful in the first 2 weeks, that was a clear improvement over those games (albeit still a step back from last year, but that's beyond the point).

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Ickey is in a full fledged sophomore slump, Bryce + Mingo are going to be learning how to be pros, and the defense is losing starters to injuries.

And despite all of this, they were still competitive today for most of the game.

It's going to be frustrating not rattling off wins this season, but so long as Frank doesn't keep getting in his own way this team has a lot to look forward to as we watch them grow.

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3 minutes ago, tukafan21 said:

Really?

We hung with one of the best teams in the NFC, in the rain, on the road, in the most hostile stadium in the league.

I'm not happy with the loss, there are still lots of things that need to be improved upon, clearly.

But to not think we looked better today than in the first 2 weeks is just being angry to be angry.  We looked god awful in the first 2 weeks, that was a clear improvement over those games (albeit still a step back from last year, but that's beyond the point).

I'm not angry.  You're just overdosing on copium.  That game wasn't any different at all, other than the Seahawks terrible defense allowing us to score more points.  We still lost by multiple scores in a game where our head coach had Andy Dalton throw the ball 58 times.  Things are not good.

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