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Originally Posted by tk13
That team is the perfect example of how much coaching matters. They were 2-14 the year before, absolutely horrible in every way. There were some changes but it's not like Reid overhauled the entire team. Alex Smith over Cassel was obviously the biggest one but the offense was still Charles and Bowe and the defense still had Hali, Houston, Eric Berry, Derrick Johnson, etc. Completely flipped into a 11 win team that made the playoffs. That would have seemed unbelievable the year before.
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Yeah, you almost have to try to be as bad as they were that year.
I was pretty jaded at that point, so I was the Debbie Downer of all the "iT's DifFeReNt ThIS tiMe!!!!"" because they beat the freakin' Jags.
Of course, the bar was set extremely low at that point.
