I usually have no perspective after a game, then some perspective the next day, ha, so here goes.
It was a very tough loss, but there were some good things to take. We've been waiting for the offense to wake up -- we've seen a 2 week trend of it moving in the right direction which is a good thing to see, and this was without Cobb and Montgomery.
Despite the score, there were some good things to take from the D. Julio was mostly a non-factor, Gunter played a great game. Freeman was held in check , at least relative to his YPC.
Even though you can certainly say injuries are part of the game and everyone has them, there's just too much missing without your best pass rusher and top 3 corners when playing on the road against the best offense in the NFL.
Hopefully we'll get all those guys back for the stretch run, it would be a big boost.
Looking at the NFC Standings , we're still a playoff team today. They absolutely need to take care of business against Indianapolis next week, and them comes a relatively tough 3 game road trip that they can hopefully come out of at 2-1.