Originally Posted by
HollywoodSteel
You think this is a Super Bowl with Darnold? You think Darnold wins this game with all the injuries on defense?
Ben was not our biggest problem today, he’s just not a miracle solution anymore.
There were no solutions that we could have reached for to be more of a Super Bowl contender this year short of trading for Aaron Rodgers. Riding with Ben and hoping he could play like he did at the start of last season was not unreasonable. And yes, with a healthy D, and if we could muster a running game with a super talented rookie RB, that was indeed the best plan possible to be potential contenders.
It was either gonna work or not, but it was the best of all plans.
Hell, we might have won this game if had a healthy defense. We almost always generate turn overs with our real defense. The whole game might have been different. Ben wasn’t awful. He just wasn’t the Ben we used to know.