What this shows is that this team is good enough but just stupid.
And doing stupid things can be solved by not doing stupid things.
The problem is the people making stupid decisions usually are the last to acknowledge them.
But if we can acknowledge that this offense is failing in every sense of the word and needs to score more than the bare average NFL team, then maybe this team can start winning games instead of hoping not to lose them.
You shouldn't be gritting your teeth trying to hope the other guy stumbles at the finish line. You should be scoring so they cannot catch you even when you slip. This team plays with no urgency and until that is fixed, it will lose.
But it is good enough to beat every team it played this year, INCLUDING the Packers. The problem is that our OC's incompetence makes it much harder on our team, is that solvable? Maybe if we hired someone like Mike Martz as a special consultant or something.....but otherwise no. We need offensive ability and that isn't happening unless Bevell stops being an idiot.
We do dumb things all game long, and it catches up to us. Hell even the damn pass to Lockette was fools gold, we shouldn't have to rely on something that takes so long to develop and relies on our WR jumping on the head of the defender to catch the pass. That dumb thing worked but at least 3 to 13 other dumb things that game did not, and that sank us.
SCORE TOUCHDOWNS. If we do that, we will start winning, it wouldn't matter if the defense gave the opposing team a police escort into the endzone for a TD if we turned around and scored after they did. (You know, like the elite QBs like Brady and Rodgers tend to do when they get behind?)