Originally posted by scottym:
Well how many guys are playing all out, or are they preserving themselves for another day?Something lit a fire under their arses recently.Unfortunately self preservation has no place in the NFL except for the guys who are so talented they can phone it in and still maintain a "good enough" style of play to consistently win.Rodgers comes to mind.I believe Mullins is a guy who gives it all, he is simply an unfinished story as of yet.I believe Trey will be as talented as Rodgers yet he seems to want to win as badly as BDN.I hope,anyway.
Originally posted by pasodoc9er:
Yeah, but i also remember how many thot, self included, we were fixed at QB with Mullie who had put in a couple relief appearances and did well. But as a starter, we got our balloon busted re: Mullie and by yrs end it was obvious our first pick in draft had to be a Qb. Whether we picked at the right slot or not , or whether who we picked is the right one,, we won't know for perhaps another season or so. For our sakes, i hope he IS the one, because we bet the farm on him.
Could just be complacency. Being satiated with previous accomplishments and delaying putting your nose to the grind.
The ultimate pessimist would say it's just been fortunate machups. Where I'd dispute this is that for Jimmy, even fortunate matchups involved boneheaded decisions, which have largely been eliminated the last few games. And previously in the year, the defense played outstanding for long stretches, but were let down by the offense.
So, one could argue it's been a combination of complacency and different parts of the team being willing to grind at different times, then losing morale as one side isn't focused.
The last few games, all sides have been focused. We'll see how long it lasts.
