While this wasn’t an overly impressive win it was nevertheless an important win on the road which at least puts us back on course to controlling the division with a huge matchup next week upcoming which could all but seal the title for us.
If we had lost then the emergency sirens would have sounded with the division on the line next Sunday . While we still obviously have many concerns as we attempt to redial our earlier success this year we can at least see when all of our offense weapons returning adds to our production while our defense also returned to its earlier turnover productivity which I might argue is the key to this teams success moving towards the playoffs with an otherwise average defense that needs to be carried by a high powered offense.
Now we can take a sigh of relief as we look ahead to Wash in a game they desperately need to stay in division race while we could basically close the door with a 3 or 4 game lead pending their contest on Sunday vs Raiders.
I agree with your post.
People are acting like we were at full strength, but Cooper was far from 100%, DLaw was not 100%, still missing Gregory, Zeke not close to 100%, Steele might be better than Collins, etc.
And, if people remember week 2, a full-strength New Orleans team gets blown out by the Panthers- the excuse? Half of the coaching staff was out with Covid. Well, half of our staff was out with Covid, and we still won.
So, I will take the win, the mini-bye, and I am excited about the home stretch.
