'Bring the Pain' Stepping away from the panic button, slowly

[JWsleep]

In the spirit of this thread, I'll give an optimist's spiel:

I actually think we're pretty close as a team. The main issues now are confidence and execution--from top to bottom, including play-calling. The Rams couldn't come at a better time. The offense is a rhythm, timing type-deal. That either looks great or awful--there's not a lot in between. So it looks awful on one series, great on another right now. But it will come. Over the next few weeks, we'll win some games. Of course, everyone will go nuts and think we're superbowl bound. The hope is that we'll get our record and confidence up so we can win some of the tough ones down the road.

As for the D, I think it will become more dominant as we move down the road. The gints are an efficient team and can be very frustrating. But recall that the gints won the SB 2 years ago, and were 13 game winners last year. They don't have the flash of many teams, but they know how to win. The D will get better. Again, the Rams helps!

As for all the nutty "fire everyone" threads and posts, here's my view: if you want to rant like that, let's have a rant thread. Or just go to extremeskins: there's like 20 such threads active right now. But on the Warpath, let's try not to mess up a good board with crap. That doesn't mean no angry critical posts. On the contrary, fire away! They just have to have some brains behind them. Otherwise, this is just a place to rant and vent--fun for the poster, maybe, but boring as hell to read.

[DynamiteRave]

Originally Posted by JWsleep

In the spirit of this thread, I'll give an optimist's spiel:

I actually think we're pretty close as a team. The main issues now are confidence and execution--from top to bottom, including play-calling. The Rams couldn't come at a better time. The offense is a rhythm, timing type-deal. That either looks great or awful--there's not a lot in between. So it looks awful on one series, great on another right now. But it will come. Over the next few weeks, we'll win some games. Of course, everyone will go nuts and think we're superbowl bound. The hope is that we'll get our record and confidence up so we can win some of the tough ones down the road.

As for the D, I think it will become more dominant as we move down the road. The gints are an efficient team and can be very frustrating. But recall that the gints won the SB 2 years ago, and were 13 game winners last year. They don't have the flash of many teams, but they know how to win. The D will get better. Again, the Rams helps!

As for all the nutty "fire everyone" threads and posts, here's my view: if you want to rant like that, let's have a rant thread. Or just go to extremeskins: there's like 20 such threads active right now. But on the Warpath, let's try not to mess up a good board with crap. That doesn't mean no angry critical posts. On the contrary, fire away! They just have to have some brains behind them. Otherwise, this is just a place to rant and vent--fun for the poster, maybe, but boring as hell to read.

I'm tempted to put that together... a big The Rant Thread. So everyone can go in there bitch about anything to their hearts content and leave intelligent discussion to the real threads. Hell. I'll go do that now. I'll throw it in off-topic.