What scares me is if we had won this game. If we ended up with the ball instead and we were the ones who won on a field goal, I’m 100% sure the narrative in this sub and in the press would be “we hung with one of the best, the Chargers are for real now.” All the criticism of the defense would have been softened and overlooked. And then we’d be in that state again of thinking that we’re good only to see that illusion (and our hearts) shattered in the most dramatic way possible (see last year’s collapse against the Jags). I honestly see this loss as a blessing in disguise because it forces a reckoning with our fatal flaws.
What scares me is if we had won this game. If we ended up with the ball instead and we were the ones who won on a field goal, I’m 100% sure the narrative in this sub and in the press would be “we hung with one of the best, the Chargers are for real now.” All the criticism of the defense would have been softened and overlooked. And then we’d be in that state again of thinking that we’re good only to see that illusion (and our hearts) shattered in the most dramatic way possible (see last year’s collapse against the Jags). I honestly see this loss as a blessing in disguise because it forces a reckoning with our fatal flaws.