The Positivity Thread
 

Tough loss. Embarrassed at home. Every other thread here is Cassel flaming (rightfully) or thread pumping to prove one's point or just down right depressing about this whole thing.

It has been said before, but it was a good season nevertheless. Please list the positives you see about this team going forward. Do your best to mention nothing but positive points. I really need to look at this thread and see people saying good things because I can't ****ing look at the news or any other sports website without seeing headlines or pictures of Ravens celebrating. So here we go:

- Berry is going to be a beast.
- We have a very promising secondary.
- Jamal Charles
- Romeo Cernnel
- Pioli, when he had one year under his belt, did quite well with the draft. Here's hoping he also does well with the coming draft.
- Locked up JC, DJ. Hali and Flowers on the way.
- This year's playoff loss was tough, but it should be a good experience for this young team.
- Next year's schedule will be a good time to test this team as well. Somehow, this year's wins felt good, but they would have felt way better had they been against good teams. Here's hoping that next year we get a few good ones. I consider this a positive.

Please list any positives about this team. I am one the verge of depression and I need something refreshing to look at.

Rep to those who positivy this thread.

McGraw looks sexy when his skull cap is on.

Weis wont be around next year to quit on us at a crucial time.

Glen Dorsey and Shaun Smith did well on the Dline. Jackson had a few promising moments, hidden by plenty of moments of pure shit.

:drool:

The positive? The Ravens are a better team.

If we'd have gone out there and lost to the Seahawks or the Colts, I'd be more angry. But in all reality, a win in this game would've been stealing a ballgame from a more talented opponent. We have the advantage at 1 position on the field, really - RB. And even then, it's just the starting RB. They have worlds more depth at the position and Rice isn't exactly crap.

The front 7, skill position players, O-line and QB is just flat better than ours. And the corners aren't as good as ours, but the safeties are better and deeper (no McGraws out there for those guys).

They're just flat better. But here's the upshot - they won't always be. We didn't lose for lack of trying, we didn't lose for lack of coaching (as much as everyone hates Weis right now).

We lost to the better, more tested ballclub. These things happen and this team should learn from it.

I can live with that. I'm not going to get back how badly the 2009 draft jumped up and kicked our ass today or how critical the failings of the 2nd round of 2010 were. I'll only note that we simply lost to the better team and the NFL doesn't favor longetivity. Perhaps we'll be that club someday but today we weren't.

Here's to incremental improvement, both to the ballclub and the front office. The Chiefs are improved over the 2009 version because the 2010 offseason was a little better than the 2009 one. Here's hoping the front office shows the same type of incremental improvement the team did and has a better 2011 offseason than they did in 2010. This experience had to teach them something and I'm hoping that knowledge is put to good use.

Arrowhead's electricity had been restored

Most consecutive playoff losses In NFL history with 7, oh wait wrong thread

I was going to try to avoid this place, though I was hoping their would be a thread like this.

1. Barry Richardson and Brandon Albert didn't do that bad. I thought both of our lines showed up and did pretty well. Really surprised by Dorsey. I thought he was beastly early on.

2. Our "Big Time Players" showed up, with the exception of Bowe. We saw great things from Dorsey, Hali, Flowers, Berry & Charles. Carr wasn't terrible once he got his feet under him and....I'll continue this in a moment......heh.....

10 wins

AFCW title

Worst to First

for the most part we beat the teams we were supposed to

#1 rush offense

The D isn't last in EVERY catagory!!

The D isn't last in EVERY catagory!!

D-Bowe's coming out party

Cassel's improvement

Jamaal is a beast

Hali AFC sack leader

Hosted a playoff game

The D IS NOT LAST IN EVERY CATAGORY!!

They had 2 more wins than I thought they would get

My official AFCW Champ shirt just arrived after getting lost in the mail ( ok, maybe that one is not so good since I wanted to wear it yesterday)

The D is much improved

We shut down Ray Rice for the most part. We busted a long TD on a club that has not given up a rushing TD in forever. We lead for most of the first half of the game.

We still had a great draft class in 2010. Our team has improved every year with Haley. I am hopeful that our front office will draft well again this year. As long as our team continues to show improvement year after year, our long-term future looks very bright.

Massive reps incoming to the sweet positive posts.
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postively, the Broncos were just totally destroyed as an organization, and they'll probably be trading orton.

The raiders are collapsing again, hopefully losing at least bush, gallery, and Aso.... along with already losing the best asset they've had in a long time in Cable.

San Deigo isn't what they once were, and they'll hopefully lose Jackson. Also, Sproles isn't what he once was, and Matthews can't stay healthy. Tolbert is pretty good at time though. their last few drafts aren't awe inspiring.


KC. Looking better on both sides of the ball. solid staff, solid players are getting contract extensions, solid drafts and only a short list of players away from being a very good team.

Excllent point, Sofa.

For as nasty as our schedule will be next year, nobody in the West will have a cakewalk and Denver will still suck.

I'm not throwing dirt on SD yet - they still showed they are a force when motivated and Matthews showed some serious ability late. They are, however, getting a bit long in the tooth. Any team with Rivers at QB is going to be dangerous, but I don't see them as an unreachable goal at this point - 1 offseason should be enough to close the talent gap between the two squads.

And the Raiders....oh the Raiders. I'd have been horrified by those guys next season. They'd have been a very tough out. Fortunately Al Davis is a ****tard and I hope he's also a vampire that lives forever. I can't see them rebounding from this offseason, I just can't.

So even with the inevitable step back, we're still in okay shape next season. And despite all the things I said in my previous post in this thread, for most of that game we were 1 play made/not made (1 good pass, Charles not fumbling, etc...) away from taking the lead and making it a much different ballgame.

There's reason for hope, maybe even lots of it.