Originally Posted by
steelreserve
People keep saying that, but to be honest, I didn't see that making a huge impact yesterday. I mean, the Vikings' D wasn't incompetent, but they weren't great either.
I've seen plenty of teams playing lights-out defense - both us and our opponents - and that's not what it looks like. They weren't dictating the flow of the game or imposing their will on us; they were sitting there playing vanilla defense and leaving us plenty of opportunities, which we didn't take because we were sleepwalking through the game again.
Yes, our problems on offense do look like the kind of things that are due to rust and lack of practice and should improve over time. On the other hand, it's professional football and they've had months to practice, so there's NO EXCUSE for being unprepared. If someone is such a fuckin' idiot that they're not ready for the season, then someone else who is ready ought to be getting snaps until they are. If the entire offense is rusty and out of sync, then we messed up by giving them too few reps and it's a coaching mistake.
We're very lucky to be facing so many opponents with fatal flaws at the start the season. Otherwise, you're unprepared like this, that's 0-4. Suddenly you're wondering why your team looked so good on paper but is playing like crap, and why you're basically out of the playoff race before it even started.