bigskydoc":ukl6zmg7 said:
Never a doubt here. Picked them to start 6-4 before getting into gear and going on a tear to finish it out. Only off by one game. I picked us to split with Cincinnati and Carolina which we almost did.
Now to lock down the five seed
-bsd
I doubted, not at 2-4. I doubted at 4-5, over halfway through the season after the bye Russell has a butt-fumble and we depend on our defense to force two fumbles, one for a TD, to try and keep it close.
To that point the offense was terrible. The defense was not epic. They were still good to very good, but not epic.
The fact that we still managed to stay in games was silver lining all the time, but at 4 and 5 I would have been more surprised making the playoffs than missing the playoffs. And I saw NO turnaround for the offense at that point
Something clicked somewhere, because the defense is a notch better without Cary Williams, no doubt.
But the offense. Epic. Record-breaking. For 5 straight games. I didn't see that coming at all, nothing I saw up till then pointed to that. I was expecting a better effort, but not a complete 180
So color me as very very happy and surprised.
I mean, I'm actually excited now to see the emptying of the backfield.
:thirishdrinkers:
