(09-28-2017, 11:07 AM)The Frailbones Wrote:

(09-28-2017, 10:44 AM)Jaguarmeister Wrote: I expected better out of Manish.  He's usually pretty objective when he's interviewed on SiriusXM NFL Network.  

This game will be telling.  I don't think a London game, even as good as it turned out to be, told us much about this team by itself.  Coupled with how we won at Houston, however, it's not shocking Jags fans are excited.  I just need to see it consistently.  1 really good game followed by 1 really bad game and then another really good game (in London where your opponent has never traveled to play) isn't consistent enough for me yet.  I'm not concerned about winning this game this weekend convincingly, I'm just concerned about getting out of there with a win.  Winning games in the NFL is hard enough to do, let alone blowing out your opponent.  What I need to see is a win this weekend, however it comes, and then either a win or a close, tough, hard fought loss in Pittsburgh the following week and I think that will be a big enough sample for me to be confident of what we do and/or don't have in this team.

Is this your excuse for why the Ravens lost?

I would also say the Jags defense played really well for about 3 quarter against the Titans but the offense was anemic.

Have you ever been on a 7.5ish hour flight?  If so, did you do things differently on your next 7.5ish hour flight because of how you felt when you got to your destination?  Now add that you're in a physical competition against some of the best athletes in the world, some of whom have made the same trip 4 times before.  Maybe the Ravens were just as prepared and the Jags were just that much better on the day.

Regardless, your question was already answered in my original post if you would have taken the time to digest what you read.  I didn't excuse anything.  I said the current sample size given the circumstances isn't big enough to assume we're who this board generally thinks we are this week, especially considering where this board was mentally as a whole 7 days ago based on the previous performance.  

We should crush the Jets right?  What happens for you if the game is in question late in the 4th against the team everyone was sure was tanking for the number one overall pick?  If we do crush them, what does that really tell you against a team everyone believes is set up to tank? (we know the players on the field aren't trying to lose)  I need the win this weekend and I need to see how they do against Pittsburgh, a perennial playoff team, in their bulding.  That shouldn't be a controversial take.

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