I had no illusion about our having a winning season this year, but I don't think it's unreasonable to expect us to at least play up to our record last season. This season, and the play from this last game against the colts in particular, has been discouraging for me as a fan. I've been coming on here saying we need to be patient and give Dave and Gus at least three seasons; at this point however, it appears that Blake is playing worse football now than he was when he started. It appears that we're not going down field nearly as much (perhaps to limit the interceptions...) but the effect of that is that we now have no running game. In other words, we are doing approximately what we would be doing with Chad Henne under center; now that's discouraging!

 

I'll stick to my guns and still say that we need to cool our collective jets and see what we've got at the end of next season. I'm not a fan of judging a team by any statistic except the win/loss ratio for that season. I've suggested reaching 8-8 would be the mark to get to. At this time though, my confidence level in the team (with it's present roster) to reach that goal next season after sucking so bad this season isn't too good. This team needs something almost miraculous to pull it together..

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