I think "competitive" is a good term. 2 yrs ago we played SF to a standstill, but in truth we were "beaten" through most of the games, but a few plays turned to our favor and we pulled out 1 win and 1 tie. That's all the difference "competitive" is. You win a few more plays and the games are drastically different. Every game has a few plays that could go either way (The Quick drop in the first SF game last year...instead of TD for us....we had interception for the Whiners...is the perfect example....the Sherman interception in the first game...if it's incomplete....Seattle probably doesn't score more than a TD...) But every game is only a few plays difference between winning and losing. Our team just needs to learn how to make those plays in our favor. Just think, we had one of the highest pct of 3rd downs picked up against us (passing) and we were still close to .500. It's not good enough.....but just a tweak here, just a twist there, just one more stop somewhere else, could be that one thing that gets us over.