If we had a great OC or could complement our defense with offensive production, considering the talent on that side of the ball, I would agree.
But we all know that this team is easily able to lose to a team that it might be slightly better than, primarily because we seem more concerned with checking boxes off for statistics than actually scoring.
And, refs make mistakes, people get injured, sh*t happens.
We don't give ourselves a cushion to assure that one mistake does not mean a loss.
Finally, we cannot even count on making a clutch FG because our kicker might not get the ball in time, given we tend to cut our experienced LS for some guy we fished off the top of a garbage pile.
But we beat the Falcons by 2, at home. Yay.
Great game. I loved the atmosphere, (but for the 3rd quarter.)
The same Falcons with a defense everyone spent weeks ridiculing because their defense against the pass is essentially non-existent. And it was, but we kept running into it. Because our OC is stupid.
Right now we are like Clemson. We look good against crappy teams but we really have not played anyone and we frankly almost lost to a really average team (Miami) in our case, NC State in theirs. It doesn't mean we are not great, but there is nothing in the results to suggest it yet BEYOND the record (which is easily skewed by playing weak opponents).
Our big wins are so far against mighty 49ers and the Jets. The same Jets that sucked against everyone else. The same 49ers that sucked against everyone else. Miami was almost a loss and the Rams were one.
For all the crap we gave Carolina fans about getting a cakewalk schedule, this part of our schedule has been a cakewalk. And we still lost to the Rams, who suck btw. We could be good, we could be great - but we have not played anyone of consequence to make that claim.
I hate the Cowboys, but they look like they are the better team. Maybe because some of our important players are injured, for sure. But this team THIS YEAR has not come close to accomplishing what the Cowboys have. At least they are beating their opponents handily.
This team could be good or great, but it will have to overcome its OC to do so, or if not him whatever weird inclination the team has to not bother trying to score until it absolutely has to. Because keeping these games this close is going to burn us eventually, someone will make a mistake - coach, player, ref and that will cost us the game (or games).
At least 3 teams (Cowboys, Vikings, and Patriots should be ranked ahead of us in the power rankings.
