I haven't looked at any social media or watched any television since last night and also haven't looked at the board here. I didn't want to write some stupid hot take. With that being said, one single idea keeps coming back to me. I want to hear your guys' thoughts on it. It feels to me, that during the Lamar era we have consistently beaten teams we should, and been pretty decent against good teams in the regular season. We've been bad against great teams in the regular season, but that really only applies to KC. In terms of the playoffs, I'd say we've put up embarrassing performances in 2 of 3 and a well fought game against an above average but far from great team once.
To me, beating tons of bad and mediocre teams, coupled with always losing in pretty convincing fashion to KC, and the self inflicted loses to good teams in the playoffs just tells me we're really just an OK team with a dynamic quarterback. What Lamar has done can't he understated, but I'm thinking the Ravens are failing him. At the end of this season JJ Watt apologized to Deshaun Watson and said we wasted one of your prime years. I'm just wondering if the way the team has been constructed and the way thats its being coached puts an inherently high floor and low ceiling on our team. That's why we don't lose when we're not supposed to, but the better teams just know how to force us into mistakes and we can't quite break that ceiling.
All that said, do we think that in one years time, given our FAs and cap and draft situation, that we could make enough changes to this offense to not burn another one of Lamars prime years?