the 0-2 start is more than daunting. as BRick said, the team is garbage and their season is over. But this defensive "captain", Junior Galette (who has promise as being decent, but is by no means a captain...except captain of the bad beard brigade) sums up why this team is garbage and why they don't deserve to be considered elite.
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We're a great team. I don't care what anybody says about us. We're a great team. We know what we've got. We know who we are.
So we're not discouraged at all. We made progress from last week. We keep making progress. We have to finish.
But you're not finishing. You have no idea what you are.
The problem with this team isn't the "missed tackles" or blown coverage or Mr. Pick Six...it's all because they have an overinflated sense of self. they have had this attitude for years now, and Payton is at the helm of that. Nowhere in the articles I read did he point the finger at himself. It's always a surprise that they lose these games to them. They can't believe they are this team...but they are.
Vaccaro had similar sentiments:
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"We're frustrated but at the same time, I felt everyone was playing really hard, getting to the ball," he said. "I felt like everybody tackled better, there were hardly any missed tackles. I don't know man. I'm still optimistic. You can't get down. We've still got 14 games to go. We'll get it fixed and get ready for the Vikings. ... I think guys are down, but we played well. We'll get it fixed.
So they'll win a home game against the Vikings, a bad team that they're playing at home against, and all is well! Yeah right. This team is at best 8-8 and probably going to finish 7-9 if they keep talking like this. I'm tired of the roses thrown at Payton's feet for being this mastermind offensive coach, compared to belichick, etc...he's not even close. he's a trick-shot coach who gambles and abandons the run like a deadbeat dad leaving their toddler in a hot car all day. when things don't go their way, they're not "exposed", they're incredulous. they can't believe it happened. well...it's reality, guys.
you're just not that good.
what the patriots did today is what great teams do. that's what the saints should've done to the browns today. you want to silence the critics, then win.