Friday, January 2, 2009

You choose: which was the most painful loss?

I've been meaning to do this since the season ended last week but haven't. So yeah.

Anyway, your chance to vote: which was the worst 2008 loss? In their own way, each was pretty painful. Here they are with a pretty close order:

1) Pittsburgh. Oy. This game was painful to watch. Five freaking turnovers in a row. Ouch. What was particularly awful was that we had held them pretty well with a very good start to the game, then everything went completely pear-shaped. Furthermore, that was the day that the Jets lost to Denver, so we could have gained ground.

2) Indianapolis. Other than the fact that I just hate to lose to Indy, this game was annoying because we had several opportunities that should have worked out for us and didn't. Jabar Gaffney, I'm looking at you (Dave Thomas, less so, that was just a lousy situation).

3) Jets in OT. Brett Favre was allowed to do three things during this game: short left, short right, or up the middle to Keller. When it was 3rd and 15 in overtime, we really should have been able to stop Keller. We didn't and that was it. Also, the Patriots played like serious dumbasses in the first half of this game. Cassel, however, was wicked awesome.

4) Miami. Adjust. Just adjust. Get on that wildcat and *freaking* *adjust*.

5) Chargers. Admittedly, I missed parts of this game, but the net result from my recollection was that it was just plain lousy. We learned that we need corners. Also, this was before Cassel developed any vision in the pocket (as was the Miami game), making our effort look even worse.

While these are in order, they are separated by increments of a very small magnitude. I must say that they did manage to lose in new and creative ways every time. Ah well. There were some pretty good games in those 11 wins too (remember Arizona in the snow? Week 1 after we were pretty sure the season was over? The second Miami game when we schooled them?). Quite a season.

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