The "we were only one or two plays from winning" mentality....

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Just like last week, folks are spewing the "we were only one or two plays from winning the game" logic to make excuses for why we aren't a mediocre/bad team. Newsflash folks: unless it is one of the rare blowouts it is usually just a few plays that decide games in this league. When you are consistently coming out on the short end of that equation, you are what you are: a mediocre/bad team. Good teams find ways to win (Saints), bad teams find ways to lose (Cowboys).

Last week it was the Jacobs run and the punt return, this week it was the goal line idiocy and the missed FG. Against the Packers it was Roy Williams' fumble and drop and the blown call on Felix's recovery, against the Broncos it was the Marshall catch, against the Giants the first time it was Romo's picks.

Consistently people try to find the handful of plays that lost us the game and use it as some type of excuse for why we shouldn't worry. This mentality refuses to recognize the consistency of the problems that plague this team starting with the coaching staff. Folk's missed FG shouldn't even have been an issue yesterday, because he should have been IR'ed weeks ago; yet the coaching staff has the same mentality of half this board and chose to look for easy excuses as to why he has gone fro Pro Bowl caliber to the shankmaster, rather than actually fixing the problem.

Face it folks, we are what we are 9-7 or 8-8.