Yes I'll explain. More than just Wilson showed last night. DD, Wells, Q, Fitz, Campbell all seemed to be playing with good effort. But main beef is you last paragraph in the very first post. When you start insinuating that last week was a fluke with the "maybe Jared Allan was right" comments. We all know how this team can play against good teams. That was no fluke.
Of course I know the Vikes game wasn't a fluke...
As for Campbell, there's a difference between playing hard and stupid, and playing hard and being effective. Just in the first series alone, CC had 2 off-sides penalities... He was part of setting a very negative tone that allowed the 9ers to build early momentum...
I am not at all questioning any players' heart (OK - check that... I think DRC has no heart, but that's an entirely seperate debate). I think our guys really, really want to take this team to the next level. However, emotionally, mentally and then physically, they just can't seem to get there. And last night was a perfect example. We all know who the better and more talented team is. Yet, the inferior team literally beat us up. It was like watching Mike Tyson knocking around an opponent... They PHYSICALLY kicked our butts up and down the field. Willis, Goldson, Brooks, Smith, and on and on all beat us up Shane. They didn't just outscore us. Singletary had that team prepared for war and prepared to punish us. And they did exactly that. The hits that caused Timmy and Beanie to fumble were perfectly executed monster hits, where Goldson gave up his entire body to crush our guys. We never once responded in kind. Not once. They were getting pressure, AGAIN, with 3 and 4 guys! Where we can only get pressure on Smith when we brought the house! Warner was hurried 5 times and sacked 4 times. We only sacked Smith once! And hurried him only 4 times...
Meanwhile, Gore shreaded us up. And I won't even mention the shear STUPIDITY that is associated with commiting 11 f'n penalties in a game of that magnitude! Indescribable really...
Like I said, with the exception of the Punk DRC, I think our entire team does not suffer from a lack of heart. I know they really care. But, there remains a HUGE gap between caring, and knowing how to play to win. Last night, we wanted to win... But, I'm also certain Michael Spinks wanted to beat Mike Tyson, and well... that didn't quite turn out the way Spinks wanted it to did it??
Singletary and his gang issued a good 'ol fashioned A S S Whoopin to us, on National TV.
Let's hope the team can recover, that the injuries to Fitz, Kurt, Dansby, Hayes, Rackers, Ware and lord knows who else, are not too serious... and that we can put together a run in the playoffs.
