Alot of what you said is true. The part that is upsetting to me is the lack of urgency and only being able to focus and fight when others start backing off on you.
This reminds me of students who only really bear down and either write the paper or study the night before the deadline or exam date.
Blowing the first three quarters doesn't make your behaviour excusable. Football is a four quarters game. I would like to see this team show up for four quarters.
Right now I can't tell if this team is capable of competing becasue they don't play consistently through a game. We can hardle tell if there actually needs to be improvements to this roster because so the whole team is underperforming. This includes the coaches.
Thank goodness it is still early in the season, but I do believe this team deserves the wrath of the fans. At least this may give them the kick in the pants to get their crap together.
I can agree with most of that ,
but the thing you're forgetting is this is a 60 minute game and when you say it's a four quarter game, that means they have every minute of that game to figure it out to get it adjusted and sometimes it doesn't come on until late in the game and then you can call it garbage time all you want, that game was not garbage time, you can't be trying to convince me that that other team allowed us to get within three points with no resistance playing what some people call prevent defense...
That's not what I saw what I saw is a team that was trying to fight back as hard as they could and the other team couldn't find a way to do enough until the very end with the last first down to end the game but you have to play all 60 minutes on both sides of the football that's both teams I get starting faster would be better and CD lamb and a bunch of penalties kept us from doing so and that has to be corrected we have slow starts to games because we keep getting penalized early I mean hell on the kickoff boom not even one play penalty I mean that has to stop playing behind the chains and being moved backwards it's hard to play in this league...
And also, it's hard to play in this league when the other team's getting all the calls and then whenever you need one and there's blatant calls being ignored , that's also a problem.
But just to add to this why would a team like the Ravens play prevent defense and let A Team like the Cowboys get back in it we have a field goal kicker that could probably kick a 70 yard field goal and they're going To allow us to get within three because they're playing prevent and they're not scared of us??
dude it was like 3 minutes left and we were only down three points that's not garbage time, people keep saying that we're padding stats ,and that's garbage time, we nearly made a comeback one more stop on defense by either diggs or not to allow that RPO for Lamar Jackson once again having our linebackers at a position you make one more stop and you never know that is not garbage time the game was still in question right up to the last first down they made to end it.
But yes I'm in full agreement we need faster starts not because our offense sucks because our defense sucks we can't afford to even get down three points because the very next possession is going to be 7 and then if we come down and get 7 the very next possession is 7 it feels like our defense is going to give up 40 points every game that's what it feels like and that's a lot of pressure for a team to be under that you know you have to go into a game and score on every possession in order to win that needs to be remedied first.
But I agree this game would have probably been different had we not got 5 penalties on the 1st like 10 plays and we ended up having to punt because of it... That literally torpedoed the first drive but then guess what the very next drive our defense is nowhere to be found this is a big problem and it needs to be fixed you can't get up on a team and your defense can't make early stops..
But I watch a lot of games in the NFL the eagles are behind most of the game why is that not garbage time oh by the way they came back and won that's why nobody sees it that way but it's the same concept they didn't really start threatening until late in the game the last couple of drives and they end up pulling it out and winning it this is just part of how the league is set up it's parody close games but you really never out of it until the final second we've seen crazy things happen you know like that watermelon kick they kept showing from 2020 against Atlanta and Dan Quinn and we end up playing that game out it happens...