Rubes Posted January 4, 2005 Posted January 4, 2005 It's killing me. How can we have such a good defense all year, but when everything is on the line, at home with a screaming crowd against a bunch of second and third stringers, they allow that killer drive? I'm hearing things like, our defense really wasn't that good, or Pittsburgh is a really deep team and their backups are top quality, etc etc etc. This just isn't doing it for me. I still think our defense is very good, certainly good enough to stop Pittsburgh's backups at home with so much for us to play for and so little for them to do so. And I don't care how deep they may be, they're still second, third, even fourth stringers, and our defense certainly has the talent and skill to match up with that. Is it like the Jacksonville game? The defense played a great game against JAX, but had an incredible string of bad plays on that final drive. Is that what happened on the long 4th quarter drive? This is just killing me. How did it happen? How did the defense disappear for the majority of the fourth quarter when we needed them the most?
Fan in San Diego Posted January 5, 2005 Posted January 5, 2005 They started to believe all of the press clippings and forgot to show up and play the game.
udonkey Posted January 5, 2005 Posted January 5, 2005 I think that it is that one guy's fault whose wife took down the Bills flag and put up the Christmas flag. She killed the mojo.
bflo83 Posted January 5, 2005 Posted January 5, 2005 I think that it is that one guy's fault whose wife took down the Bills flag and put up the Christmas flag. She killed the mojo. 193383[/snapback] Hey - I actually have to defend the wife on this one. The infamous flag swap took place the Friday before the Browns game. It doesn't take three weeks for mojo to die! You sure you didn't wash the luck underwear????
SouthTownBills51 Posted January 5, 2005 Posted January 5, 2005 They got caught up in the moment, probably thinking that pittsburgh wasn't coming to play..and started to take them lighty, and they couldn't adjust properly.
Boatdrinks Posted January 5, 2005 Posted January 5, 2005 They got caught up in the moment, probably thinking that pittsburgh wasn't coming to play..and started to take them lighty, and they couldn't adjust properly. 193406[/snapback] Well that 4th quarter drive was purely 100% MENTAL! The momentum was lost when we did not go for the 1st down on 4th and a long 1. The O was running the ball and we needed to go up by more than 1 score the way things were going. One play could kill us otherwise. But we had the momentum on that drive and killed it. The missed kick led to disbelief. That long run was the first play after the miss and the Bills were stunned. We regrouped and held them to 3 but then the killer Bledsoe fumble let all the air out of the Bills. This was a total mental collapse after the bad plays. I know the stats say you kick the FG to go up 4 pts. But this was about momentum and showing faith in your team to keep their confidence. We needed this game and Pittsburgh did not. A TD there effectively ends the game as ST Pierre? was just going to hand off. Cowher said "here it is take the game Mike. I'm putting in my THIRD STRING now" And we didn't take it. We played scared , safe and choked.
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