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<blockquote data-quote="Magooch" data-source="post: 1086648" data-attributes="member: 17987"><p>Injuries have been brutal no doubt, but also think some of us are perhaps trying to stretch that excuse/explanation a little bit too far. </p><p></p><p>It wasn't due to injuries and/or not having superior talent/players that we lost to the Browns and Panthers or tie the Cowboys early on. We 100% had the players/depth/talent/whatever you want to call it to win those games and just failed to do so. And IMO it wasn't injuries that lost us the game vs Philly. Even with all our injuries, we held Chicago completely in check for 58 minutes and change just a few weeks ago and it wasn't injuries that caused Doubs to fail to field the onside or for us to trip over our own feet for the rest of regulation and OT. I wouldn't say we lost vs the Broncos due to our injuries either. Yes that certainly made it an uphill climb but we had more than our fair shot at winning it (and/or putting them away early before injuries started piling up. Who knows how the game and perhaps season would be right now if we'd just finished them early on). </p><p></p><p>In fact out of 6 losses and 1 tie really Baltimore and MAYBE Philly are the only games that I can look at and say "we simply did not have the personnel to be able to win this game". Injuries or not, we had the quality (AND opportunity) to beat Cleveland, Carolina, Dallas, Chicago, and Denver. </p><p></p><p>So it's tough for me to say. Did injuries to guys like Parsons and Kraft likely put a big dent in our chances of winning the Super Bowl or being a serious postseason threat? Probably. Those are huge losses. But they (or their absence) were not responsible for the majority of our non-wins. And then it's that kind of butterfly effect type thing. Yes those losses are huge, but what if we'd won those winnable games vs Cleveland, Dallas, Carolina, Chicago, Denver? We're looking at 14 wins and a comfy #1 seed with a bye. We probably feel radically different about our postseason perspective if we're sitting on 12, 13, 14 wins, a #1 seed and a bye and are on a good run heading into the postseason than sneaking in at 7, banged up and looking at a potential 4 game slide into the playoffs. Of course this is all speculative but all that to say that...I don't think injuries TOTALLY explain this season.</p><p></p><p>And with specific regards to Parsons...even before he was added, I think virtually everyone expected this unit to take a step forward this season in Hafley's second year. That they have not really done so with Parsons and regressed DRAMATICALLY without suggests that either A.) Our preseason expectations were way out of line, B.) we coached/planned Parsons into a far too integral role to the point that we simply cannot cope/adjust without him or C.) our returning players were much worse than we had evaluated them to be</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Magooch, post: 1086648, member: 17987"] Injuries have been brutal no doubt, but also think some of us are perhaps trying to stretch that excuse/explanation a little bit too far. It wasn't due to injuries and/or not having superior talent/players that we lost to the Browns and Panthers or tie the Cowboys early on. We 100% had the players/depth/talent/whatever you want to call it to win those games and just failed to do so. And IMO it wasn't injuries that lost us the game vs Philly. Even with all our injuries, we held Chicago completely in check for 58 minutes and change just a few weeks ago and it wasn't injuries that caused Doubs to fail to field the onside or for us to trip over our own feet for the rest of regulation and OT. I wouldn't say we lost vs the Broncos due to our injuries either. Yes that certainly made it an uphill climb but we had more than our fair shot at winning it (and/or putting them away early before injuries started piling up. Who knows how the game and perhaps season would be right now if we'd just finished them early on). In fact out of 6 losses and 1 tie really Baltimore and MAYBE Philly are the only games that I can look at and say "we simply did not have the personnel to be able to win this game". Injuries or not, we had the quality (AND opportunity) to beat Cleveland, Carolina, Dallas, Chicago, and Denver. So it's tough for me to say. Did injuries to guys like Parsons and Kraft likely put a big dent in our chances of winning the Super Bowl or being a serious postseason threat? Probably. Those are huge losses. But they (or their absence) were not responsible for the majority of our non-wins. And then it's that kind of butterfly effect type thing. Yes those losses are huge, but what if we'd won those winnable games vs Cleveland, Dallas, Carolina, Chicago, Denver? We're looking at 14 wins and a comfy #1 seed with a bye. We probably feel radically different about our postseason perspective if we're sitting on 12, 13, 14 wins, a #1 seed and a bye and are on a good run heading into the postseason than sneaking in at 7, banged up and looking at a potential 4 game slide into the playoffs. Of course this is all speculative but all that to say that...I don't think injuries TOTALLY explain this season. And with specific regards to Parsons...even before he was added, I think virtually everyone expected this unit to take a step forward this season in Hafley's second year. That they have not really done so with Parsons and regressed DRAMATICALLY without suggests that either A.) Our preseason expectations were way out of line, B.) we coached/planned Parsons into a far too integral role to the point that we simply cannot cope/adjust without him or C.) our returning players were much worse than we had evaluated them to be [/QUOTE]
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