I understand what you're saying, but while the outcome was about what was expected, the journey was not ok between pulling defeat from the jaws of victory for the close losses and the completely uncompetitive games (sigh, why did I choose this year to go to Washington?).
I see this a bit more glass half empty - I think the staff squandere…
I understand what you're saying, but while the outcome was about what was expected, the journey was not ok between pulling defeat from the jaws of victory for the close losses and the completely uncompetitive games (sigh, why did I choose this year to go to Washington?).
I see this a bit more glass half empty - I think the staff squandered what should have been a pretty decent to good team with poor coaching and poor decisions, particularly around the QB position.
Indeed, it turned out that we had more talent than we thought. We saw improvement on offense (including OL). I don't know why Mendoza was buried at number 3 when he's clearly the best QB so that's on the coaching staff. We definitely had some defensive stinker games.
It's overall a partial credit scenario. We were overall an uneven but decent team that could have been a very good team (great teams blew us out). Our actual ceiling was probably bottom half of the Top 25.
There are some guys though that are good because they thrive in the competition of a game, and Fernando seems like one of those to me. With those, no way to know if they are that good until you play them. Obviously would have been nice if it happened earlier, but I am glad it did eventually happen!
I understand what you're saying, but while the outcome was about what was expected, the journey was not ok between pulling defeat from the jaws of victory for the close losses and the completely uncompetitive games (sigh, why did I choose this year to go to Washington?).
I see this a bit more glass half empty - I think the staff squandered what should have been a pretty decent to good team with poor coaching and poor decisions, particularly around the QB position.
Indeed, it turned out that we had more talent than we thought. We saw improvement on offense (including OL). I don't know why Mendoza was buried at number 3 when he's clearly the best QB so that's on the coaching staff. We definitely had some defensive stinker games.
It's overall a partial credit scenario. We were overall an uneven but decent team that could have been a very good team (great teams blew us out). Our actual ceiling was probably bottom half of the Top 25.
There are some guys though that are good because they thrive in the competition of a game, and Fernando seems like one of those to me. With those, no way to know if they are that good until you play them. Obviously would have been nice if it happened earlier, but I am glad it did eventually happen!
For sure. We got that Brock Purdy luck.