Tier 5 - update your resume/ Dennis Allen
No, I haven't. We lost because of 1 score games, mainly because of missed field goals. No.football said also (or, Nick Underhill) that if we had just averaged 3 points more a game, we would have easily been a 10 win team.
Here were our losses last year
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 10 20 (no missed FG)
@ Carolina Panthers 14 22 (one blocked FG, one missed FG, but we would still lose even if we convert)
Minnesota Vikings 25 28 (Lutz missed 61 FG as time expires, otherwise no misses, also he kicked a 60 yarder earlier)
Cincinnati Bengals 26 30 (no missed FGs)
@ Arizona Cardinals 34 42 (no missed FGs)
Baltimore Ravens 13 27 (no missed FGs)
@ Pittsburgh Steelers 10 20 (no missed FGs)
@ San Francisco 49ers 0 13 (one missed FG)
@ Tampa Bay Buccaneers 16 17 (no missed FGs)
Carolina Panthers 7 10 (two missed FG, one 48 yarder blocked, another 55 yarder blocked which led)
So the only loss you can pin on Lutz was the Panthers. The Minny loss was a 61 yarder, expecting a kicker to make that is a tall order (and he had made a 60 yarder earlier). So we win the Panthers game and we're 8-9, still out of the playoffs.
But I agree we were very close to a 9-8 team which would have be enough for the playoffs last year. The Bucs loss really hurt. Do nothing all game and then come out and score two consecutive touchdowns in the 4th ...