I've had my heart broken routinely since '68. Every time we've had a great year, we have tanked in the next one.
And recent league history says that very, very few teams can sustain excellence. It's just very, very hard to do.
We have a daunting gauntlet of scary-good teams. And we play them all in our regular season schedule. SF may finally be really, really good. Winning our division is going to be very, very hard.
Do we have assets? Sure. Will they remain healthy? Will they sustain performance? Ramsay didn't last year.
It's just so hard to do it.
But then, the point of the post is the source of hope: McVay. He really is something. I do see signs of him growing into that level of mastery that can sustain excellence. It is beyond rare. But maybe, just maybe, he is all that.
That PS Game 1 looked damn good to me. It was 60 minutes of
SYSTEMIC EXCELLENCE from a bunch of guys who will be cut. That is NOT the sign of a team sliding after last year.
You know, we might be better than last year. I see a path for that. I really do.
And I think it will be one or the other. We significantly improve our execution over last year ... or we slide badly and struggle to make the playoffs. I don't see a lot of ground in betweem.
