It is one game, the problem is the trend.
We very well could have lost the Miami game for the same reason we lost the LA game.
But the issues were staring at us all through the preseason.
So the OL is ineffective, seemingly in both run and pass blocking. But it is also the cheapest OL out there.
Cannot really blame our OL coach on that one, kind of like asking him to make the side dish for the dinner but allowing everyone else to go to the store for their items and forcing him to root around in the dumpster behind the store to see what he can make for his side.
So now we are faced with the 49ers, a team that half our fan base ridiculed most of last year. A team that looked completely screwed and utterly rudderless. Yet, based on the #s and the eye test so far, they look like they might not just beat us - but beat us handily.
At that point, you can come back from 2 losses, but this was supposed to be the easiest part of the schedule. And we can lean on the "Russ is injured" excuse, but with a broken OL, there is not much room for him to heal and if he does, the every present threat of him getting hurt again.
The schedule gets harder in the back half, and we frankly look much worse than a lot of teams nobody expects to come near the SB.
It really all depends, whether this team can put things to together and somehow beat a team we thought was a sure win - or whether we lose this one and it looks like the doors are falling off.
