Mental toughness and maturity is what is stopping this team from reaching the promised land

[RonnieT24]

Games like this last one with the Bills.. the AZ game, the 49er game all illustrate that this team just isn't on a championship level mentally. And that saddens me because I don't know what you can do about something like that. This team needs more dawgs to be sure. It's been that way for at least 20 years. A lot of comes back to Garrett and his "right kinda guy" mantra for so many years. Yes it's nice to have choir boys on you team but truth be told you need some nasty sum*****es too and we simply do not have enough of the latter. For all the flak Jerry gets for his meddling, he will at least go get a guy with some edge to him no matter the optics look like. Wonder if Rolando McClain is in shape. This team needs some guys who are willing to fight each other on the sidelines to bring the team out the doldrums. Or at least fight somebody on the other team. I love our team but this mental softness will be their undoing long before any physical softness does.. The one silver lining to this loss is that it might allow them to refocus and recenter for the next 4-5 weeks. Lord knows this teams performs much better when doubted than when everybody is pumping them up. So the Buffalo butt kicking might have done them a favor.

 

[Eddie]

Well, I guess we've had 28 years to work on our mental toughness and maturity.

 

[JayFord]

this team is mentally tough and mature

problem is unless someone beats San Fran before we can play them in the playoffs theyre sending us home

Dallas swings at san fran and punches back but san fran pulls out brass knuckles and knocks us face first in the dirt

 

[MountaineerCowboy]

Blame your "leaders".

 

[zrinkill]

This is a 180 from what OP said a week ago.

All because we lost a game.

 

[RS12]

I believe nothing changes until the guy who blamed the weather for that sewage we all witnessed the other day, goes toes up.

 

[rambo2]

Blame your "leaders".

How about the Eagles? They aren't going to win anything.

 

[RonnieT24]

This is a 180 from what OP said a week ago.

All because we lost a game.

No because we didn't show up for a game.. I assume you know the difference. This game proved that they still don't have that ability to show up flat out of their system. And if it happens in the playoffs they WILL be sent home. We can only hope that they used up their last "let's not bother to even show up" game this week and we don't see any more of it.

 

[ChuckA1]

This is a 180 from what OP said a week ago.

All because we lost a game.

Respectfully, they didn't just lose a game. They got physically trounced.

 

[FanofJerry]

Mazi bout it bout it...

make no mistake

so is CeeDee

 

[GINeric]

Games like this last one with the Bills.. the AZ game, the 49er game all illustrate that this team just isn't on a championship level mentally. And that saddens me because I don't know what you can do about something like that. This team needs more dawgs to be sure. It's been that way for at least 20 years. A lot of comes back to Garrett and his "right kinda guy" mantra for so many years. Yes it's nice to have choir boys on you team but truth be told you need some nasty sum*****es too and we simply do not have enough of the latter. For all the flak Jerry gets for his meddling, he will at least go get a guy with some edge to him no matter the optics look like. Wonder if Rolando McClain is in shape. This team needs some guys who are willing to fight each other on the sidelines to bring the team out the doldrums. Or at least fight somebody on the other team. I love our team but this mental softness will be their undoing long before any physical softness does.. The one silver lining to this loss is that it might allow them to refocus and recenter for the next 4-5 weeks. Lord knows this teams performs much better when doubted than when everybody is pumping them up. So the Buffalo butt kicking might have done them a favor.

This post is spot on!! This team acts tough but plays soft when the toughness is required the most.

 

[Typhus]

I believe nothing changes until the guy who blamed the weather for that sewage we all witnessed the other day, goes toes up.

haha, and yea, thats about right.

 

[America's Cowboy]

Games like this last one with the Bills.. the AZ game, the 49er game all illustrate that this team just isn't on a championship level mentally. And that saddens me because I don't know what you can do about something like that. This team needs more dawgs to be sure. It's been that way for at least 20 years. A lot of comes back to Garrett and his "right kinda guy" mantra for so many years. Yes it's nice to have choir boys on you team but truth be told you need some nasty sum*****es too and we simply do not have enough of the latter. For all the flak Jerry gets for his meddling, he will at least go get a guy with some edge to him no matter the optics look like. Wonder if Rolando McClain is in shape. This team needs some guys who are willing to fight each other on the sidelines to bring the team out the doldrums. Or at least fight somebody on the other team. I love our team but this mental softness will be their undoing long before any physical softness does.. The one silver lining to this loss is that it might allow them to refocus and recenter for the next 4-5 weeks. Lord knows this teams performs much better when doubted than when everybody is pumping them up. So the Buffalo butt kicking might have done them a favor.

I'm positive hard-core workouts would either make or break this team.

 

[zrinkill]

No because we didn't show up for a game.. I assume you know the difference. This game proved that they still don't have that ability to show up flat out of their system. And if it happens in the playoffs they WILL be sent home. We can only hope that they used up their last "let's not bother to even show up" game this week and we don't see any more of it.

So you react to how well they played the week before ...... got it.

 

[KJJ]

This is a 180 from what OP said a week ago.

All because we lost a game.

Living in the moment. Just look at some of the threads compared to the last few weeks.

 

[baltcowboy]

It’s tough to play hard every week. Especially going up to play in Buffalo against a team that is desperate to win. Not saying we will win next week against Miami but guarantee we will play hard.

 

[shabazz]

The owners inability and outright refusal to acknowledge drafting mistakes and roster shortcoming will continue to keep this pretty good team from ever becoming a GREAT team that can compete past a divisional round .

Don't have to be Nostradamous to know how this season will end.....enjoy the ride!

 

[visionary]

Games like this last one with the Bills.. the AZ game, the 49er game all illustrate that this team just isn't on a championship level mentally. And that saddens me because I don't know what you can do about something like that. This team needs more dawgs to be sure. It's been that way for at least 20 years. A lot of comes back to Garrett and his "right kinda guy" mantra for so many years. Yes it's nice to have choir boys on you team but truth be told you need some nasty sum*****es too and we simply do not have enough of the latter. For all the flak Jerry gets for his meddling, he will at least go get a guy with some edge to him no matter the optics look like. Wonder if Rolando McClain is in shape. This team needs some guys who are willing to fight each other on the sidelines to bring the team out the doldrums. Or at least fight somebody on the other team. I love our team but this mental softness will be their undoing long before any physical softness does.. The one silver lining to this loss is that it might allow them to refocus and recenter for the next 4-5 weeks. Lord knows this teams performs much better when doubted than when everybody is pumping them up. So the Buffalo butt kicking might have done them a favor.

Hes back folks
After hibernating a few days because Dak crapped the bed LOL
After telling us we have the best QB in the NFL.
No reflection, no admission of blindness, no responsibility for his hero, just moving on to mental toughness

 

[Praxit]

..after that butt whooping vs Bills.

It has to be an ill feeling. Now that post season looming, can't afford another appearance in the manner again.

 

[RonnieT24]

So you react to how well they played the week before ...... got it.

No I react to how they played for the better part of 8 weeks juxtaposed to this performance. I still maintain that when they are on their p's and q's they are as good as anyone. But they just lose focus at times and what we get is games like this. Mind you this is as much about what happens on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday as it is about what happens on Sunday. Mental toughness means having the ability to keep grinding even when everybody is telling you how great you are. About maintaining the focus and attention to detail during the week despite 100 different interview and appearance requests every day. I am not saying it's easy.. hell I'm not even sure I could do it.. but I AM saying that this team needs to figure out how to keep their heads on straight and their feet on the ground. Because when they forget that games like this last one are the result.