I know everyone's ticked off about the losses and surely Morris and McVay share some of that responsibility.
But on the bottom line, if you look closely at our losses, it sucked but let me explain briefly.
We had Arizona where we could have beaten them but to their credit, they convert 5 or 6 3rd down and 16 on our defense. That's inexcusable of course, but it happens sometimes.
Then we start out with 2 turnovers that lead to 14-0 deficits against teams that were playing close to the vest. That was the worst case scenario. The Titans had no Derrick Henry and our two turnovers gave them the perfect best case scenario to beat us. I don't usually complain about the refs, but the refs in this game were awful and snuffed out any chance we had to come back.
Then the whiners play us. Shanahan wasn't going to let Garapolo lose the game for them so he ran and ran and dinked and dunked. We turned the ball over twice and got down 14-0 again. Shanahan was able to take the air out of the ball. And for whatever freaking reason, nobody laid a hand on Kittle or Deebo Samuel, allow them free releases down the field and in the zone were were playing, the whiners just played pitch and catch and easily converted 3rd downs because you can't prevent Kittle and Samuel from getting 5-7 yards when you play a soft zone and nobody jamming the receiver. Even on 3rd and 6 or 7, Kimmy G string has tons of pressure on him but it was easy to convert when his two main targets get free releases from the line of scrimmage in a soft zone.
The fake FG was also a bad idea in my opinion because a FG by the whiners in the 2nd half makes it a 3 score game.
I think the problems that were mentioned are fixable. I am hoping that Von Miller will help the defense to gel. If we lose to Green Bay, then it's very likely we wind up as the 5th or 6th seed in the playoffs and unless something unusual happen, I see a playoff run similar to last year.
Bottom line, the turnovers need to stop and we need to get points on the board first. The key to beating the whiners is to score first so Shanahan can't take the air out of the ball and actually has to pass the ball down the field once in a while.
"end of rant"