More on the Loss

A friend writes:

 

Tonight was painful on many levels, and ther will be plenty of folks who want to minimize this loss by saying, See, we stood toe to toe with them and showed that we're an elite team, we'll get them later this year at home.

Sure. True. But that's the attitude of a wild card team. By the end of the 1st half I saw a team on the field that was looking at trying to win a Super Bowl. That offense looked as good, if not better, than even in prime time TO/'04 year.

Ultimately, what that loss might have done is serve as a distinction between being a division winner (with possible home field throughout) and being a wild card team trying to win it all on the road. I'd have much preferred pulling out that win and then losing a winnable one to the Steelers at home.

Oh, ps, DeSeam Jackson needs to learn how to hold the football. He CAUGHT that pass at the 4 and fumbled it into the end zone for a TD recovered by us.