Look at it realistically:

[mmohican29]

We weren't going to win the Super Bowl. Plain and simple. No team featuring Jacques Reeves and Roy Williams in coverage could beat a team like New England.

I know a trip to the Super Bowl would have been great, but we weren't winning it. Period. It is disappointing that we lost a playoff game to a team we are better than, oh yes. Oh yes indeed. And someone must pay, and pay dearly.

Jerry's close to getting it right. A few swift personnel moves and we're right back in the hunt next year. Take the cat out of the microwave. We'll be ok.

 

[kbman]

Well a few crappy teams almost beat New England this year so I would have liked another shot..... Losing to the Giants is totally unacceptable.

 

[tyke1doe]

Well a few crappy teams almost beat New England this year so I would have liked another shot..... Losing to the Giants is totally unacceptable.

You know what they say about almost. Only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades.

 

[The Panch]

1. Being the first NFC #1 seed to lose their divisional game in 17 years isnt ok.

2. Losing to a team you beat twice in the regular season isnt ok.

3. Not having the discipline and maturity to eliminate your mistakes in the most crucial game of most these guys careers isnt ok.

4. Continuing a 12 year post season losing streak when you were the most talented team in your conference isnt ok.



I'd feel a lot more comfortable losing to a team like New England in the Super Bowl than losing to Eli "Manage the game Manning" in the Divisional Round.

 

[tyke1doe]

1. Being the first NFC #1 seed to lose their divisional game in 17 years isnt ok.

2. Losing to a team you beat twice in the regular season isnt ok.

3. Not having the discipline and maturity to eliminate your mistakes in the most crucial game of most these guys careers isnt ok.

4. Continuing a 12 year post season losing streak when you were the most talented team in your conference isnt ok.



I'd feel a lot more comfortable losing to a team like New England in the Super Bowl than losing to Eli "Manage the game Manning" in the Divisional Round.

How do you get maturity? By experience. This team is still young so it doesn't have maturity yet.

Second, Eli "manage the game" Manning lost two playoff games before he won his first last year.

Romo is still young and maybe our coaches wise up next year like the Giants coaches did and maybe we get more maturity in knowing how to play strong down the stretch and concentrate during playoff games next year.

 

[trickblue]

Here's your reality...

We weren't prepared...

 

[The Panch]

How do you get maturity? By experience. This team is still young so it doesn't have maturity yet.

Second, Eli "manage the game" Manning lost two playoff games before he won his first last year.

Romo is still young and maybe our coaches wise up next year like the Giants coaches did and maybe we get more maturity in knowing how to play strong down the stretch and concentrate during playoff games next year.

My point is, we have up big plays to a QB who isnt a big play QB.


Let me ask you something, how is it the Green Bay Packers are the youngest team in the NFL, yet stay as grounded and consistent as they are?? They got locker room leaders. We've got veterans, but no locker room leaders. I agree that this was a learning experience, but we picked a hell of a time to have it with a team that there's no guarantee is going to be this talented next year.

 

[Nightman]

There is no silver lining to today's loss. We played like crap and still had two chances to win the game late in the fourth. Nobody stepped up and we lost to the a team we easily beat twice. And now it's a 100% certainty we won't beat NE in the Super Bowl.

 

[mmohican29]

Barber going for almost 100 in the first half doesn't really reek of bad preparation.

Ware not being offsides on a critical third down stop doesn't really reek of being bad preparation.

Now, you can find fault with the special teams units as not being prepared, yet it was the same group that totally throttled Hester in Chicago.

Please tell me "How to prepare" a team. Perhaps you have a crystal ball to give Wade to let him know where the mistakes would be made today that would cost the game?

Losing a game that you should have won doesn't mean you "weren't prepared". Poor performance and execution trumps preparation everytime my friend.

 

[Nightman]

How about game-planning to attack a depleted secondary. How about getting pressure on a QB that rattles easy. How about changing some things up against a team you play twice a year.

 

[trickblue]

How about game-planning to attack a depleted secondary. How about getting pressure on a QB that rattles easy. How about changing some things up against a team you play twice a year.

yep... inexcusable...

We got outcoached by Coughlin...

This is not a good thing...

 

[tyke1doe]

My point is, we have up big plays to a QB who isnt a big play QB.


Let me ask you something, how is it the Green Bay Packers are the youngest team in the NFL, yet stay as grounded and consistent as they are?? They got locker room leaders. We've got veterans, but no locker room leaders. I agree that this was a learning experience, but we picked a hell of a time to have it with a team that there's no guarantee is going to be this talented next year.

They have a leader and veteran at quarterback.

They have leaders and veterans at cornerback.

When your trigger man and your corners (in this pass happy league) are leaders and veterans, that helps.

We don't have that at those critical positions.

 

[tyke1doe]

Losing a game that you should have won doesn't mean you "weren't prepared". Poor performance and execution trumps preparation everytime my friend.

But don't you perform and execute properly when you're not prepared?

 

[The Panch]

They have a leader and veteran at quarterback.

They have leaders and veterans at cornerback.

When your trigger man and your corners (in this pass happy league) are leaders and veterans, that helps.

We don't have that at those critical positions.

Greg Ellis is a veteran and even tho I've heard him step up in the GB game, he isnt known as a vocal member of the D. On offense, you got guys like Glenn and Owens who've played in the Super Bowl showing signs of ignorance by saying he felt we were a team of destiny. There's no such thing. You get where you want to be by preparation. Not by being destined. If anything, this team got too comfortable with the Detroit and Buffalo games where because we came thru in the clutch, we didnt have enough to discipline ourselves to realizing that just because you win, that doesnt change the fact that you have issues. Brad Johnson said himself after the Detroit game he was trying to convince Romo those comebacks arent that easy and Romo wasnt hearing. I love Romo, but he's showing his ignorance right there for the whole "Im sorry for not being sorry" thing. A win's a win, but you have to acknowledge your struggles as a team.

 

[mmohican29]

But don't you perform and execute properly when you're not prepared?

I'm saying preparation is an intangible. This is a team we had beaten twice already. We were at home. We were rested. We HAD to have been prepared, perhaps overprepared (Garrett's playcalling was a bit mistifying today).

We didn't make plays (CRAYTON). We didn't execute (CRAYTON, OLINE, TONY,TO, TG) If we did, we win this game going away DESPITE our team's inadequacies (ROY, REEVES, HENRY,).

 

[NoLuv4Jerry]

no...we were not even going to beat Green Bay...but you at least wanted the ZERO playoff wins in 11 years off your back