Post#15 » by Bulltalk » Sun Oct 5, 2008 7:53 pm
I don't know what to think about a defense that has all but a split personality depending upon whether they are playing at home or on the road? There's just something psychologically weak about that. Most of the time a team is more dependent upon their defense on the road than at home. You want to keep their crowd out of the game, try to keep them from establishing a rhythm, keep it close so that your offense can eke out a win against a decent team.
Contrarily, it seems to be our defense that folds on the road. I don't have a plethora of statistics to bear this out, but I would be somewhat shocked if they didn't bear out this impression of mine this year and the previous two seasons, by and large.
All's not lost here. I'm much more down at the 49er loss. I feel we gave that game away, and should be 2-2 here. If we were so, given what we've had to deal with this year, I'd say things weren't too bad. But being 1-3 now, I have that impression that we're going to be struggling to be an 8-8 or 9-7 team that barely misses the playoffs, or enters the playoffs from a pretty hapless division as the 5th or 6th seed at best. Certainly not a contender.
I've got that half-step-above-mediocrity, or somewhere between slight-to-dramatic-implosion range pretty firmly fixed in my mind as the possible expectation range. I mean, what dramatically improves here?
Also, it seems to me (I could be wrong about this statistically) that we seem so hopeless on 3rd down and passing situations the last few years. I just never feel like were going to complete a pass for a first down in these situations. It seems like a small miracle when we do.
Ugh...
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