MontanaHawk05":drakdq4s said:
RussB":drakdq4s said:
sutz":drakdq4s said:
Because Pete is a boxer. The first few rounds you dance around, you trade some punches, you study your opponents, and you study YOURSELF. If your goal is the Super Bowl, a loss or two in September won't hurt your chances that much. Sure, it kills your chance of going undefeated, but how realistic of a goal is that? Accepting the fact that nobody really knows their own team completely on September 1st isn't giving up on the season.
Sorry if it disturbs some fans' feelings, but the annual "We're falling apart!" protests from the peanut gallery are as predictable as our slow starts. Kind of go hand in hand, as it were. Declaring that it won't get better this season is also a typical fan reaction. Much like the old days, when predicting a weekly loss would make you right more times than not, eventually these predictions of the team's demise will also be correct.
Me? I'll believe it when I see it. For now, I'm still enjoying the ride.
Oh, and I don't do fantasy football or Madden, so stats don't mean that much to me and I don't dream up pie in the sky scenarios of trading for a super star at every position by next week.
These games are important, they all matter in the end when you are trying to secure a first round bye. And this team needs one. They are not winning 2 playoff games on the road no way.
So, how many losses are acceptable, then? 1? 2? Because unless you expect your team to either go 19-0 or be denounced as a good team (which is silly), you're gonna lose some games.
If you have to lose games, Tennessee is a good opponent to lose to. They're a quality team, with excellent coordinators on both sides, and their being an AFC team reduces the damage to us in postseason tiebreakers.
Everybody wants to be the Patriots. Everybody wants to float in and out of every week and not have to deal with the slightest doubt that their team is Super Bowl-bound. I agree it'd be a nice existence. I agree it'd be better for my blood pressure and that I don't like the current offensive struggles. But not even the Patriots win the bloody Lombardi EVERY year. Confidence doesn't equate to victory. Eventually you have to execute in two vital January games, and even the Patriots don't always manage that.
The Patriots went nearly a decade between winning Super Bowls. If they are the best run of teams ever, that really shows you how they're not even that great of a standard. Much like the Seahawks Super Bowl season, reality and how people perceive how it goes down are two completely different things.
I "accept" this team for what it is because I have no say in it. There are things that I don't like and would like to be better. But I do the same thing I've done since I was a kid. I watch them, hope they make the playoffs, then hope they win a playoff game (which didn't happen once for like 18 years), then hope they get into and win the Super Bowl. There's a lot of interesting and fun things along the way. Even when this team was perpetually mediocre to bad, it was still fun to watch. I don't have control over any aspect unless I choose not to give money or time to the team anymore. So it's either watch or don't.
It seems like some people are annoyed that some of us aren't complaining enough. Look, I get it. The offensive line sucks. The coaching staff sucks. They're throwing away a "once in a generation defense" because they let it suck.
There's plenty of things to be critical about and good conversations about them. It goes on every day. We don't all need to be complaining. People are right: there's a lot of season left and this team has dinked around in the past and turned it around. Who knows. I know it's fun to watch.
We don't all have to be perpetually miserable and write the team off. Some of us are allowed to enjoy this stuff.
