I'm pretty effing mad

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Originally Posted by Hog1

I heard a sportscaster discussing Joe2. He stated that by Joe winning and making it to the playoffs a couple of times with.....marginal teams, it allowed our FO to assume they were on the right track with this team. It ultimately has delayed the inevitable "rebuild" by a few years

I think this could be right. I have for probably 5 years had a tiny sinking feeling that we simply didn't have that much talent. When Williams was here our defense was obviously under talented and out performed what should have been expected. On offense we've gotten maybe 7 truly good man-seasons out of our offensive line in the past 5 years(25 man-seasons) and a couple average ones. Samuels had probably 5 of those. We haven't had a WR of real consequence. Even when chugging I think we fooled ourselves into thinking Moss was ever anything more than an average #1. CP had a couple of good years and Cooley was a stud obviously. Our QB hasn't been much better than average at its best. We've simply not been very good. But we always operate like we're just a few players away from glory. We're not. Haven't been. And now the blocks that kept us at least decent are old and ineffective. That coupled with poorish coaching and we're the worst team in the league or close to it.