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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
And I think it's because he knew how well they were playing.
To that point he could sit there and say "man, we just need ONE break..." and be confident that his guys were playing at a level that might actually allow them to get it.
When you're only half thinking a thing is possible and it slips away from you, well you aren't really all that crushed because you weren't convinced it was likely anyway.
But I think Vrabel's watching that game and he's proud as hell of his guys and he's seeing them stay within a haymaker of maybe stealing this thing....
....then it happened. Only the 2nd real mistake his team made all day and it resulted in the 2nd crippling touchdown of the afternoon. At that point he understood that for everything they'd done and for as hard as they'd tried, it just wasn't going to happen. And because he'd had himself convinced that it could, it hurt all the more.
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Yup. We beat a damn fine team that day. They played well...just not well enough.
It wasn't even revenge.
It was a reckoning.