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It's almost as if Williams has adopted a 2004 Gibbsian philosophy of "play not to lose" on defense. Right now I'm not seeing the same agression I saw last year. And I have to believe that not having Smoot and his man-coverage ability has a lot to do with it. Maybe as Rogers gets more comfortable we can go back to an aggressive defense. I'm not saying the defense is playing poorly, but I don't see that all out pressure we saw so often last year.

And I can't help but wonder if I'm not feeling more frustrated about this loss because of the fact that we rallied at the end and came sooooo close. Had we never scored that last touchdown this may have actually been an easier loss to swallow.