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"They haven't had to" is a really poor rationale.
You always "have to", especially against a team like the Eagles. As we saw when they were gouging us on broken running plays.
Every quarter, every series, every down is important. You don't play with the attitude of "oh whatever, it's just the first half, we can get it done when we really need to."
It totally counted before halftime. If they "get it done" in the first two quarters it's probably a 30-6 game at the half, and we're actually able to play conservative football in the 2nd half, instead of biting our nails and trying to hang on for dear life because it's a 1 TD game in the 3rd quarter. And we definitely aren't sitting here trying to rationalize an offense that's clearly failing to execute as being some kind of intentional martyball passing game.
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