The Building is on FIRE and Mrs Gayle Benson’s CEO is watching it burn.
by what measure is mickey loomis one of the top GMs in the league? seriously. what big brain moves has he made in the last decade? the only thing he's known for is his cap management which hasn't made the team better.
we played the easiest schedule in the NFL and mostly again backup QBs. the irony is that we beat maybe one team that was above .500 the entire season. this season was a total disappointment.
We actually beat two teams that ended up having above .500 records, as far as I know, Indianapolis and Tampa who both ended up as 9-8 teams. Although I do wonder how well or competitive we wouldve looked or played overall if a few teams we did beat (Chicago, for one) if their dangerous, duel-threat QB's who really resuscitated the team's chemistry late in the season had gone up against our defense that struggled mightily against mobile, scrambling QB's.
Easy schedule or not, and it certainly was, 9 wins isnt a complete, total disappointment and I won't apologize for being glad and content we finished this season with a winning record instead of another 7-10/8-9 team. Do I think we should have won 2-3 more games like Green Bay, maybe the road Falcons game if we hadn't continually kept making stupid mistakes and turning the ball over, like Carr throwing a pick-six when we we're up, 7-0, and driving deep into Atlanta's red zone and his INT destroyed the fragile momentum we were trying to build up.
The early-season Green Bay road loss where we blew a 17-0 halftime lead due to some SOB Packers LB late-hitting and tossing Carr around, hurting his ribs, and then acting like some wannabe, tough-arse maternal fornicator, which lead to us missing a potential game-winning FG near the end is why we're not in the post-season. Not always does one game in a long season usually stand out in hindsight, 3-4 months later, as THE ONE that cost us a chance at the playoffs, but that particular loss remained a bitter sting long after it was over.