Did the 6-2 start raise our expectations to an unrealistic level?

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Originally Posted by Miller101

I disagree. I completely disagree with anyone who says our expectations were to high after a 6-2 start. Our team has played the number one ranked offense, Two ranked offense, third, fourth, sixth, and seventh. Then the ninth and the tenth...................Against all of those offenses our defense is ranked at sixth overall. I know they had a bad outing against the Giants, but come on! Our offense has to help them out. If our offense can just elimate their mistakes, like they did to start the season at 4-1 then we'll beat just about every team we play against. We have one of the easiest schedules to close out the year. Dallas will fall. Pray for New Orleans to run up 50+points against Atlanta..............And we're in!

We have the defense for it! YES! WE HAVE A CHAMPIONSHIP CALIBER DEFENSE!!! One that broke Westbrooke's ribs sending his ass to the locker room so our offense was able to come back from a 14 point hole. A defense that stopped Jamal Lewis for SEVEN STRAIGHT TIMES AT THE ONE YARD LINE OR CLOSER! A defense that shut down the Dallas offense TWICE!!!................I know Dallas is not that good, but still, its Dallas!.............A defense that held Big Ben to just 5 completions before sending him to the locker room with an injury. A defense that held Drew Brees, during his record setting year, to just 216 yards..........hey! What am I saying? He MIGHT not even get the record because of us. No other team has held him to lower numbers! Same thing with Kurt Warner! He only had 192 against us. No other team has come anywhere close to that AND HE COULD BE THE MVP THIS YEAR!

Portis is number two in the league in running the ball. Campbell doesn't turn it over. You've heard it said ALL YEAR LONG. We should be putting up 30+points on these guys or even 40+ points on them. If our offense just STOPS, YES STOPS, dropping that gosh dang ball we'll be fine!

I don't think we even hit Westbrook on that play when he broke his ribs and he just made a quick move which cracked them. Just like when DG jumped over that guy on a punt return back in the 80's maybe early 90's.