Week 3: Giants at Redskins Game Thread

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Originally Posted by mooby

Yeah but the contenders take that 14 point lead and turn it into an even bigger lead that teams can't come back from. We lack the killer instinct. Once we get leads we grow complacent and decide it's easy living from there on out, and it kills us every time. If this was the 2004 defense this game would've been over at 17-3. Instead it's the 2006 defense where no matter how big of a lead we have, we can't stop them in the end.

We don't lack "a killer instict", we just misconnected on a few pass plays and a handoff.

Or, to simplify, "played poorly."