OK then. Maybe it's the sense that we are just waiting to lose, that I'm feeling. Freddie doesn't inspire confidence in me, so I wonder if he inspires it in his charges, and it makes uneasy. This game feels more like one that is simply in the way of the big showdown next week, for me. What worries me is that my belief that we'll still care next week hinges on this week, yet again. A season of genuine hope has deteriorated to one last hope: beat the Cards, and let's put all our talent and energy into sweeping Baltimore. I hope I still care come Sunday night.
Don't have a clue why, but I'm having a hard time getting up for this game. Maybe it's just the relative lackluster performance of these two teams this year. Maybe apathy is setting in. Maybe I'm tired of seeing the same mistakes week after week. Maybe I'm just tired of trying to defend "hope" in this forum.
To paraphrase T.S. Eliot... “This is the way the season ends, not with a bang, but with a whimper.” *sigh*
I guess in retrospect, having an extremely questionable offensive line, first time coach, stud running back, former league rush leader coming back halfway-through and instead of deciding to be a smashmouth football team that ran the ball and imposed their will on opposing defenses was the single biggest mistake. Hiring Todd Monken to go with a pass-first, vertical offense and trying to feature Odell — to the detriment — of the rest of the offense, the nail in the coffin of the season just didn’t know it.
