This Season is Eerily Similar to 2003

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We have the Veteran QB who isn't mobile, makes plays - but has an atrocious offensive line in front of him.

We have a SUPERB defense, with star power on it (Takeo, Fletcher, Adams, Clements etc.) - (Williams, Williams, Dareus, Spikes)

We made a shocking draft pick in the first round (McGahee) - (Watkins)

Our coach is a conservative moron, who is coaching for his job, and has already had 99.9 percent of the fans soured on him.

The team got off to a great 2-0 start.....then crumbled after the bye week.

[streetkings01]

Re: This Season is Eerily Similar to 2003

So your saying we start next season 0-4, win 9 of the next 11 games then lose to the Steelers backups?

[justasportsfan]

Re: This Season is Eerily Similar to 2003

So your saying we start next season 0-4, win 9 of the next 11 games then lose to the Steelers backups?

No dude, he's saying it's a good thing we blasted the Pats 31-0 in our first meeting with them this year.

[Fletch]

Re: This Season is Eerily Similar to 2003

We have the Veteran QB who isn't mobile, makes plays - but has an atrocious offensive line in front of him.

We have a SUPERB defense, with star power on it (Takeo, Fletcher, Adams, Clements etc.) - (Williams, Williams, Dareus, Spikes)

We made a shocking draft pick in the first round (McGahee) - (Watkins)

Our coach is a conservative moron, who is coaching for his job, and has already had 99.9 percent of the fans soured on him.

The team got off to a great 2-0 start.....then crumbled after the bye week.

For me once again we find ourselves in the 2nd half of a season where our wins in the first half were build on something besides solid play and putting up points. The fact that we barely beat one of the worst teams in the league (Vikes) at home in what was at the time one of most key games of the season, barely took a bad Chicago team to OT, and needed a MFG to beat a Detroit team that showed up with only Tate for their offensive starters in tact should say much about how thin our 5-4 record is. That could very easily have been 2-7 right now and the forum would already be imploding.

Yeah sure, we could have beaten better teams than us but apart from Detroit, who's only arguably better despite their thin 6-2 record, but we haven't. Doesn't seem like too many people are holding out any real hope that we'll be better than .500 and right now it seems that even the most optimistic among us realize that playoffs aren't anywhere close to likely.

The OL can't be too atrocious with Orton having the time to throw for an average of 256 ypg. The OL can't be blamed for him missing his targets when he's got time. Orton's among the best in ypg, compl. %, and rating.

Anyway, so who's at fault for this?

Who should be fired do you think? Clearly someone's ass should be on the line, no?

[justasportsfan]

Re: This Season is Eerily Similar to 2003

For me once again we find ourselves in the 2nd half of a season where our wins in the first half were build on something besides solid play and putting up points. The fact that we barely beat one of the worst teams in the league (Vikes) at home in what was at the time one of most key games of the season, barely took a bad Chicago team to OT, and needed a MFG to beat a Detroit team that showed up with only Tate for their offensive starters in tact should say much about how thin our 5-4 record is. That could very easily have been 2-7 right now and the forum would already be imploding.

Yeah sure, we could have beaten better teams than us but apart from Detroit, who's only arguably better despite their thin 6-2 record, but we haven't. Doesn't seem like too many people are holding out any real hope that we'll be better than .500 and right now it seems that even the most optimistic among us realize that playoffs aren't anywhere close to likely.

The OL can't be too atrocious with Orton having the time to throw for an average of 256 ypg. The OL can't be blamed for him missing his targets when he's got time. Orton's among the best in ypg, compl. %, and rating.

Anyway, so who's at fault for this?

Who should be fired do you think? Clearly someone's ass should be on the line, no?

Hey fletch.

If the bills win this thurs. can you go on sabatical since the bills will have exceeded your record prediction? You've already been been wrong on a few things. Your first paragraph sounds like damaged control on your part for being wrong.

[coastal]

Re: This Season is Eerily Similar to 2003

Our coach is a conservative moron, who is coaching for his job, and has already had 99.9 percent of the fans soured on him.

then 99.9% of fans are ****ing idiots.

[Fletch]

Re: This Season is Eerily Similar to 2003

Hey fletch.

If the bills win this thurs. can you go on sabatical since the bills will have exceeded your record prediction? You've already been been wrong on a few things. Your first paragraph sounds like damaged control on your part for being wrong.

That's untrue. I've said 5 wins plus/minus a win all along and said add another 2 plus or minus 1 when Orton began starting, which would put it at 7 plus/minus 1. That's the reality. If you choose to believe something else despite my having written that, great, I can't do much about that.

Now, are you in the habit of telling everyone that has one faulty prediction to leave and never come back? If so, and if that really happened, you'd be long gone and this forum would be empty.

So besides personal vendetta, what's the point of posting that? Feel free to slam me all you want via PM, really. I probably won't even respond so you can have the last word right away. But why clutter up the forum with stuff like this simply because you don't like me?

What was it that I posted in this thread to warrant such a post from you? Seriously, I'm looking over what I wrote and don't see anything even remotely inflammatory. So what's the problem?

[TheBrownBear]

Re: This Season is Eerily Similar to 2003

Disagree. By midseason, based on Bledsoe's play, that felt like a team with zero upside. On the other hand, this team actually does seem to be improving (outside of the unforgiveable fumbles on Sunday). I still think this is a good team, even if we don't make the playoffs.

[mightysimi]

Re: This Season is Eerily Similar to 2003

We have the Veteran QB who isn't mobile, makes plays - but has an atrocious offensive line in front of him.

We have a SUPERB defense, with star power on it (Takeo, Fletcher, Adams, Clements etc.) - (Williams, Williams, Dareus, Spikes)

We made a shocking draft pick in the first round (McGahee) - (Watkins)

Our coach is a conservative moron, who is coaching for his job, and has already had 99.9 percent of the fans soured on him.

The team got off to a great 2-0 start.....then crumbled after the bye week.

Wasn't that the season where we had like 5 or 6 games without an offensive touchdown? I don't see it.

[Fletch]

Re: This Season is Eerily Similar to 2003

Disagree. By midseason, based on Bledsoe's play, that felt like a team with zero upside. On the other hand, this team actually does seem to be improving (outside of the unforgiveable fumbles on Sunday). I still think this is a good team, even if we don't make the playoffs.

Suppose we go 3-4 or 2-5 the rest of the way, I won't even consider 1-6, but what then? Would you still think the same?

[Mace]

Re: This Season is Eerily Similar to 2003

To be real honest, every season always seems eerily similar because they never go anywhere much no matter what changes. You get excited, enthusiastic, cautious, dismayed, saddened, angry, wrathful, hopeful, optimistic, pessimistic, dismayed again, fatalistic, then hopeful again.

There are always similarities one way or another, 60 shades of futile. I'm still in the middle of dismayed->saddened though, leading into angry but before wrathful.

It always ends up similar to one messed up season or another though, if just a little bit different enough to fuel the end hopeful. And so...

[tomz]

Re: This Season is Eerily Similar to 2003

then 99.9% of fans are ****ing idiots.

Agreed. And we were so lucky to beat Detroit like everybody else has done all season long. Oh wait, half of their losses were to us!!!

[Generalissimus Gibby]

Re: This Season is Eerily Similar to 2003

We have the Veteran QB who isn't mobile, makes plays - but has an atrocious offensive line in front of him.

We have a SUPERB defense, with star power on it (Takeo, Fletcher, Adams, Clements etc.) - (Williams, Williams, Dareus, Spikes)

We made a shocking draft pick in the first round (McGahee) - (Watkins)

Our coach is a conservative moron, who is coaching for his job, and has already had 99.9 percent of the fans soured on him.

The team got off to a great 2-0 start.....then crumbled after the bye week.

Nope, that team had obvious problems starting in week three. I think this team is mediocre much like the 2004 team that was as good at snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory in important games as it was at making a statement against stinkers. Losing to the Chiefs who are 6-3, but with one loss coming to Denver, one loss coming without their receivers in the opener, and well hell I live in KC and know they lost another one but I can't remember against who exactly. Anyways, point is we lost that game, a very winnable one, and we lost to Houston, another very winnable one. We will probably end up 9-7 just like the 04 squad. However, we are not going to the post season this year.

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Suppose we go 3-4 or 2-5 the rest of the way, I won't even consider 1-6, but what then? Would you still think the same?

Do you want us to go 1-6?