Iheartfootball wrote:Does anyone else get the sense that the tone for the season was set when Watson dropped that TD bomb from Rodgers on the first offensive play of the season? Since then they have been digging out of that hole as a team and *slowly* building cohesion despite some pretty inept in-season roster management, coaching, and game planning. One major problem I see is that playmakers on both sides of the team are rookies and I expected them to make a major impact when they've never experienced the rigors of an NFL season.
I have to disagree with that idea. I've seen it listed often as the tipping point, but if your teams psyche is so fragile it can't handle a rookie dropping his first catch - no matter how easy it should have been, your team is screwed. It's not the drop that is the problem, its the weak mentality of the group. I'm not buying that either...
The problem is that this team was not as good - on the whole - as most of us believed at the beginning of the season. It's still a middle of the road construction, not in the same caliber as the top teams. Losing Davante was big, but there are still plenty of weak spots on all parts of the squad, including some of the coaches.