Dave, I feel your pain.
But look at it this way, we shut down the #1 rated Offense in the NFL. We hung with the team which will probably be playing in the NFC Championship Game this year ... and almost beat them in their own backyard.
We made too many mistakes. If we want to play these types of close games, we can't make mistakes. We made WAY too many .. penalties and dumb plays.
But the bottom line is, without a running threat, we're back to 2004. Without Julius Jones, teams have no fear of our ground game. Almost cost us last week, and it killed us this week.
We should have murdered the C-hoks. But without a ground game to set up the passing game, their D shut us down also. With holes at both OT positions, they had our number.
We should have beaten them, but they made the plays when it counted. We didn't.
If BP hadn't attacked to get into FG position with 40 seconds, and we lost in OT ... I think we'd hear the same second guessing. The only problem was the poor sideline pass with 15 seconds which wouldn't have put us in FG range anyway.
I'm sorry, we lost ... but to a good team which we dominated for 58 minutes. Same story, same ending ...
