Saints (3-2) lost to Cards starting an undrafted QB
Cowboys (1-3) lost to TN
San Diego (2-3) lost to Oakland
Cinncy (2-3) lost to Tampa.
These are all playoff teams from last year with legitimate SB hopes, and are obviously struggling as well. This does not excuse the underwhelming performance by the Packers and the golden opportunities missed to be on top of the division/conference. However, it is a reminder that sometimes it rains in your neighbor's yard too.
"musccy" wrote:
So what does that really mean?
The Bears are 4-1. Overcame 4 ints and killed the Panther's running game.
The Buccaneers are 3-1. Beat a very explosive Bengals team.
The Falcons are 4-1.
I haven't been watching the NFL for as long as most of you, but I do know that it's no soccer league and that you don't never have the same teams playing for it all.
The Saints just aren't that great a team. They had a flukey run in the play-offs after greatly outscoring bad teams and posting scores like 46 - 34 against good teams in the regular season.
Would you really expect them to repeat?
Or the Cowboys. They've been an uncordinated pool of talent for ages now. Why are they a standard we should be comparing ourselves to?
If we were the Lions, yes, I'd say, let's see how we stack up against some of the lesser teams. This season will be a success if we win a game or 5. But we're not. We're trying to keep on pace for the play-offs. Preferably even the division. We shouldn't be focusing on edging out other struggling teams which were crowned division champions before the season even started. They're struggling. And there's a very realistic chance that non of those 4 teams will make the play-offs.
Is the sky falling? No. We still have quite a few games to play. Does it get hard when you squander away games you should win? Very much. Especially if you look at the 2nd part of the season. Or even the next 4 games. The Redskins are a worse team than the Dolphins, Vikings and Jets. Going into the bye week 4-5 wouldn't surprise me if we keep playing like this.
I'm just hoping that we'll turn it around before the bye week. That we won't need an extra week to tune things and have another one of those meetings where everything comes together, for some reason.