If we could just have our Starting core...

BakoSaint · 10-12-2022, 10:47 PM

Originally Posted by Boston Saint

But Bako, hardly ANY team is dominating. Again, look at Tampa (preseason favorites) needing the refs to bail them out. Rams (last years Champs) looked ugly this weekend. Only teams with stable QBs like Bills and Chiefs are “dominating”. The game just doesn’t work that way. It’s a long season. Both of Giants SBs under Eli Manning were won as wildcard teams that struggled during regular season. I understand wanting to win but, outside of Billichik/Brady NO organization overcomes the bar you’ve set.

I did not complain we are not dominating, I complained we are not dominating anyone. The word anyone adds a lot of meaning. Our biggest win is 7 points over a bad team in a shootout after their punter inexplicably decided he could be Adrian Peterson and was wrong. I am not saying we need to be the Bills or Chiefs. I am saying that if every game is a battle and we play multiple bad teams and cant dominate any of them, we are probably not contender. The Bucs dominated the Cowboys 19-3 and played us even the first half then clearly dominated us in the second half. We are not on a different level than the Falcons and Panthers we are on the same level and that is not a playoff level. Are the refs partly to blame? Absolutely. But those refs are not taking the playoffs off, in fact they are just getting warmed up for the playoffs. We need to be able to dominate at least some teams to contend against playoff teams and playoff refs. We are not there. To get there I believe we need to accept rebuilding.

10-12-2022, 10:47 PM	#11
BakoSaint 1000 Posts + Join Date: Dec 2018 Posts: 2,347	Re: If we could just have our Starting core... Originally Posted by Boston Saint But Bako, hardly ANY team is dominating. Again, look at Tampa (preseason favorites) needing the refs to bail them out. Rams (last years Champs) looked ugly this weekend. Only teams with stable QBs like Bills and Chiefs are “dominating”. The game just doesn’t work that way. It’s a long season. Both of Giants SBs under Eli Manning were won as wildcard teams that struggled during regular season. I understand wanting to win but, outside of Billichik/Brady NO organization overcomes the bar you’ve set. I did not complain we are not dominating, I complained we are not dominating anyone. The word anyone adds a lot of meaning. Our biggest win is 7 points over a bad team in a shootout after their punter inexplicably decided he could be Adrian Peterson and was wrong. I am not saying we need to be the Bills or Chiefs. I am saying that if every game is a battle and we play multiple bad teams and cant dominate any of them, we are probably not contender. The Bucs dominated the Cowboys 19-3 and played us even the first half then clearly dominated us in the second half. We are not on a different level than the Falcons and Panthers we are on the same level and that is not a playoff level. Are the refs partly to blame? Absolutely. But those refs are not taking the playoffs off, in fact they are just getting warmed up for the playoffs. We need to be able to dominate at least some teams to contend against playoff teams and playoff refs. We are not there. To get there I believe we need to accept rebuilding.
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