(12-18-2023, 04:22 PM)Caldrac Wrote:

(12-18-2023, 03:56 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: I'd love for Lawrence to be "elite" one day.
(even though that means 16 different things to 17 given people)

But I'd totally just settle for the whole offense getting through 60 minutes of football without shooting themselves in the foot with dumb mistakes. That'd be a great start.

Then maybe we could work on doing that 2 weeks in a row.

Baby steps and that.

Wins, play-off appearances > individual stats. Plenty of elite players in this league doing great things on gamedays only to fall short. 

Fantasy football has worried this sport for a lot of fans. Just give me a well rounded football team that can show up and give us more complete games. 

If you're a good team? You have to show it over these next three weeks. No excuses. Nobody wants to hear about the injuries this late into the season. Everybody has them. 

You managed eight wins, you need to scrape up at least two more to have a shot at the play-off's, maybe the AFC South title again for the second year in a row.

Agreed. Brady and Mahomes have really skewed QB perception. What they have achieved is exceptional but now its expected. Only one team can win it all and its down to the team. O's will win you games, D will, ST will, you need contributions from all over. Look at QB's like Brees, Rodgers, Roethlisberger, Rivers. Great QB's that had lengthy careers and played on some great teams but it's 1, 1, 2 and 0 SB wins. You need a lot of things to go your way.

It's a thought I've been having most of the day, injuries, pressure, expectations, adversity, those are all things the top teams face and have to overcome. This is new to us but something we are going to have to learn to overcome and overcome it quickly. The road to the SB is never easy and while I don't think we are that team yet, we are closer to being in that category than some think. We're going to get teams best shot now.

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