December 27, 2020 05:55AM | Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 16,078
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BumRap
I simply wish we could acknowledge that this is a team sport and when guys do not play insynch or do their job and we lose it is also as a team. I don't place more credit or blame to any one player on this team for a loss or a win. If I have quote me. I have been critical of our teams sustainable run game and our defenses pass rush and LB play. Add to that our special teams and play calling. All of that impacts the success of the individuals that do try and bring it weekly. Jared is not avg and he does try and bring it weekly. In defending him I am not ignoring when he has played poorly and certainly not when his teammates have not come to play. It is never as simple as that but it is an over simplification to point to him in every key moment and link the outcome and then pretend our defense has been faultless all season or pretend that they have carried us. We have seen some individual plays where they have stepped up in the end to preserve a win and the lead but that should not mean they are carrying our offense. They are complimentary functions of our team. We need all aspects to play that way this year. This year nothing comes easy or as expected.
That's a good manifesto (no jokes or irony intended, I think it's a good manifesto).
Example: the defense couldn't close out the Bills game and then couldn't live up to its rankings when it let SF score twice at the end of the 2nd SF game and let the Jets 32nd ranked offense score on them in the 2nd half while the offense was rallying. And btw I am not "blaming" the D exclusively--but they contributed heavily to those losses, according to any kind of objective take on it.
If all you watch is the qb the qb is all you will ever see.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/27/2020 05:57AM by zn.
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