What is the one play

Originally posted by 9erfan4life:
1st BS calls by the refs don't count

2nd Spencer touched that f**ker in the face mask before he walks away

3rd Nate running into the wr on the PI call and the would be INT was much bigger than that stupid play

and D that Norris play was not a game changer they were blown out and IMO would have been blown out if they were up 10-0 or 6-0 to start that game so they lose 31-13 who cares the D couldn't stop Seattle for s**t

Look at em go It's like being told what's what by a guy wearing a hockey helmet out in public.

1st-Nobody says BS calls by the ref cost us this season. I only said the way our team responded to the chain of events in that game served to illustrate the fragility of their confidence.

2nd-I haven't seen the replay, but it appeared to me as though Spencer attempted to touch the receiver down only after he got back up. Right or wrong call, the point of the comment flew right over your head. The poster of that comment was only using that isolated incident to illustrate his views regarding the whole team. Get a clue before you pop off all willy nilly.

3rd-if Nate running into the receiver cost us an INT, then it must mean that call was BS, because by your logic: that receiver could have done absolutely nothing to affect the outcome of that play, regardless of whether he was interfered with or not. It looked to me (and everybody else who isn't a complete homer) that Nate prevented the receiver from making a play on the ball; therefore, it's just plain old PI and not "the would be INT", as you so eloquently put it. Besides, I thought "BS calls by the refs don't count". .....whatever, I know I'm reaching; you just piss me off.

If you don't like other people's ideas, then piss off. Dismissing, attacking, or making fun of others ideas pretty much goes against the whole design and spirit of the webzone. I'm aware that I just did the same thing to you, and I apologize...but I don't mean it

P.S: please learn how to read, write, and punctuate f**king english. I'm tired of trying to interpret retard. You're a vet, and I'm assuming english is your 1st language; there's no excuse for this jibberish.

Originally posted by NatralBrnThrila:
I'm not gonna get into the whole "one play F'd us up" thing, because so many different people did so many different things wrong this year, it's impossible to pinpoint it all to 1 moment.

But for me there was 1 play that sort of stands out in my mind that was the shining example of how psychologically fragile/immature our team is, and it was that horse sh*t PI call that went against Clements in week 1. The one where Deion Branch hooked Nate's arm and Nate got flagged for it; that was absolute garbage and I think it was the last in a chain of events to happen in that game before you could physically see our team's confidence just wither and die. It very much felt like "ok, here we go again. What else is going to go wrong today. We can't overcome all of this stuff". That was my own feeling at the time, and from where I was sitting it looked like that was the feeling of the players too.

Not to say the season died in that moment, but you could tell from that moment on when 1 thing went sh*tty, the team would just try harder and harder to push back against the negative momentum, not wavering from "the plan" one bit, until we were on the brink of getting rolled (as per Singletary's donkey instructions), and the sh*tiness would just continue to snowball and grow into a giant ball of sh*t...sh*tball; pretty much sums up my feelings regarding this season.

The team needed a plan and Singletary was the man without one. When sh*t started to go sideways on us, he'd often just freak and waste timeouts, or stomp around like a menace on the field, absolutely berating officials...the team never had a chance with him and that's too bad, because they're a good team in my eyes. I get the feeling that Singletary only expected his team to grow and get better from last year; which makes sense, we all did. What he forgot was that he needed to continue to grow and get better with his team, and he failed in that goal worse than anybody in the organization. To me, the lion's share of the blame goes to him. He's a good man, he meant well and he genuinely cared about the players growth on and off the field, but he just didn't do enough on his own end of things to up his own game and that's nobody's fault but his.

I’m not sure how hard he worked this offseason getting that done. So when people talk about work ethic, you just can’t turn it on and it off, and then go to training camp (and say), ‘I’m really trying. I’m really trying.’ You know what? The offseason when we were in the OTAs, the minicamps and all those things, that’s when you have to get that done...I’m not sure he did that.

Originally posted by mrgneissguy:

Originally posted by NatralBrnThrila:
I'm not gonna get into the whole "one play F'd us up" thing, because so many different people did so many different things wrong this year, it's impossible to pinpoint it all to 1 moment.

But for me there was 1 play that sort of stands out in my mind that was the shining example of how psychologically fragile/immature our team is, and it was that horse sh*t PI call that went against Clements in week 1. The one where Deion Branch hooked Nate's arm and Nate got flagged for it; that was absolute garbage and I think it was the last in a chain of events to happen in that game before you could physically see our team's confidence just wither and die. It very much felt like "ok, here we go again. What else is going to go wrong today. We can't overcome all of this stuff". That was my own feeling at the time, and from where I was sitting it looked like that was the feeling of the players too.

Not to say the season died in that moment, but you could tell from that moment on when 1 thing went sh*tty, the team would just try harder and harder to push back against the negative momentum, not wavering from "the plan" one bit, until we were on the brink of getting rolled (as per Singletary's donkey instructions), and the sh*tiness would just continue to snowball and grow into a giant ball of sh*t...sh*tball; pretty much sums up my feelings regarding this season.

The team needed a plan and Singletary was the man without one. When sh*t started to go sideways on us, he'd often just freak and waste timeouts, or stomp around like a menace on the field, absolutely berating officials...the team never had a chance with him and that's too bad, because they're a good team in my eyes. I get the feeling that Singletary only expected his team to grow and get better from last year; which makes sense, we all did. What he forgot was that he needed to continue to grow and get better with his team, and he failed in that goal worse than anybody in the organization. To me, the lion's share of the blame goes to him. He's a good man, he meant well and he genuinely cared about the players growth on and off the field, but he just didn't do enough on his own end of things to up his own game and that's nobody's fault but his.

I’m not sure how hard he worked this offseason getting that done. So when people talk about work ethic, you just can’t turn it on and it off, and then go to training camp (and say), ‘I’m really trying. I’m really trying.’ You know what? The offseason when we were in the OTAs, the minicamps and all those things, that’s when you have to get that done...I’m not sure he did that.

I hear you. If I had to guess, I'd say he had sooooo much faith in his offensive line coaches this year to get the job done, that he just never even considered the idea of changing up his vision for the team...at least not early on.

When we went 0-5, he needed to adjust big time, and he never did. Only with our backs to the wall did he finally decide to show a little flexibility with "the vision", and you just can't put this young team under that kind of pressure packed environment all the time. There were some easy games to be won this year, and nearly all of them were smash it out, fight for everything types of games. When you look at it that way you sort of have to be proud of the team in a way. Playing like that all the time has to be taxing as hell; I couldn't even begin to imagine.