by DeadRinger » Fri Jan 14, 2022 1:27 pm
We went 5-2 over our final 7 games. Sounds great when you say it like that.
We won those 5 games by an average margin of 3 points. We are winning ugly, getting lucky.
Luck runs out in the playoffs. You can't play like this and win in the playoffs.
As far as Carr, the dude had a 56% completion rate against LA, for a 186 yds. Against the #23 defense. Carr didn't do the team any favors out there. Yeah he got us into piosition for a LOOONG FG in the end, but with all the fucking opportunities he failed to take advantage of throughout the game, we never should have been in that spot.
Hayward got us an INT and all Carr was able to do was pick up 30 yds to set up a 52-yd FG try. We are really lucky we have Carlson, but some day he's not going to be able to pull Carr's ass out of the fire. We have to move the fucking ball. But we were up by 12 points at the time and the FG made it 15, this team thinks it can put the fucking car in neutral with a lead like that and just start drinking beer and laughing it up, throwing away entire series.
With 10 min left in the 4th qtr, up by 15 points, Herbert RIPS US THE FUCK UP, completing 9 passes in a TD drive that culminates in a 23-yd TD to Palmer. Up by only 7 now, what does Carr do? Well, Mariota picks up 8 yds, Renfrow loses 4 and then Carr takes a 10-yd sack. A total 3-and-out shit show. Tell me, why the FUCK does this team act like we have the luxury of throwing away entire series??
I have no fucking faith in Carr. He's coasting on Maxx and Ngakoue and Hayward right now. And Jacobs, in this particular game. He's playing average football. Aside from this LA game, we've been scoring 16 fucking pts.
We're about to get bounced the fuck out of the playoffs by Burrow, UNLESS Maxx and Ngakoue can maul the fuck out of him. This team has the #18 defense, they're a better team than LA. They're #5 against the run, they'll force Carr to beat them and that won't work out well for us. Burrow is the next incarnation of Brady. They have big-time receiving threats, and we don't have DBs worth a shit.
CIN is favored by 5 pts. That might be a little too much, I think they win by 2-4 pts. Just because Maxx and Yannick are going to come to fucking play.
BETTER be a playoff win in 2022.