Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2004 10:12 am
We got beat by a better team, and that's all there is to it. Could we have won? Absolutely! But, to say the referees cost us the game, and in particular the interception at the end, is ludicrous. I blame penalties more than the interception, and it was an interception.
We played well enough to win, but so did Philadelphia and they didn't have as many costly penalties as we did. Ramsey had a chance to win it for us, not lose it for us. The pass probably shouldn't have been thrown, but it by no means cost us the game. Mike Sellers penalties were far more costly than that poor decision by Ramsey.
No matter how we slice this game up, we have to realize that the real reason we lost was not by the plays we did or didn't make. It's all about mental discipline, and we're sorely lacking in that department. The penalties that we always get, either push the other team deep in our territory or knock us back deeper from their territory. Until that part of this team is fixed, we can expect all the games to boil down to one or two plays on the field and hope we get a break one way or the other. We shouldn't have to hope for a lucky break, but that's the only way we're going to win games like these. It all balances out in the end!!
We played well enough to win, but so did Philadelphia and they didn't have as many costly penalties as we did. Ramsey had a chance to win it for us, not lose it for us. The pass probably shouldn't have been thrown, but it by no means cost us the game. Mike Sellers penalties were far more costly than that poor decision by Ramsey.
No matter how we slice this game up, we have to realize that the real reason we lost was not by the plays we did or didn't make. It's all about mental discipline, and we're sorely lacking in that department. The penalties that we always get, either push the other team deep in our territory or knock us back deeper from their territory. Until that part of this team is fixed, we can expect all the games to boil down to one or two plays on the field and hope we get a break one way or the other. We shouldn't have to hope for a lucky break, but that's the only way we're going to win games like these. It all balances out in the end!!
ey makes the end zone catch at the end of the first half. We could have made the ensuing FG attempt. Sellers unsportmanlike penalty that moved us back from the 50 to the 35. But I still am upset by the way these blown calls (the TO interference penalty) always go against us, and wind up providing the margin of victory for our opponents. I felt like the first E-gals game was also tainted by bad calls, although they chose to run up the score late.