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Originally Posted by WMH
You still think its more on the play calling?
Piss poor effort ever since the NE beat down.
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Yes and Yes. I don't think it has to be one or the other. I think we are coasting in every sense. Lazy and sloppy play perfectly paired with lazy and sloppy coaching.
We failed on ST, Offense, Defense, Coaching (brutal challenge early in the game, wasted timeout so we could try a 53 yard FG that had no chance at going in). This is a team wide collapse.
The defense could not get off the field in the 4th quarter for the 2nd week in a row. The offense is bad between the 20s and worse in the redzone. We have now called about 5 bootlegs in the past month after hitting it 6-8 times a game through 12 weeks. All of the straight drop backs mean our OL is being badly exposed for the things they can't do.
And to top it all, the refs slobbered all over this Colts team for 4 quarters. I almost understand calls going against us vs. the Steelers or Patriots (Bob's complaint), but a team of rookies gets loved up on all day. The NFL has gotten terrible league wide this year about how many PI flags come based on the WR mini fit after an incompletion. Of course we don't have a guy on the roster who will ask for a call, so we get none when AJ is mugged, but give up phantom calls all over (in the endzone before the 1st TD, the start of the long 4th quarter drive to put the game away). Its almost like these teams have a coach working the officials from the sideline all game...
Kubiak just has far too much Washington General in him. He is the opponent, the other guy. Now I just have to decide if I want to lose to Cincy so I have some hope of real change, or if I want to tease myself along until we get stomped in Foxboro.