Yeah, even with Herm. Heck, the Chiefs had a ton of first half leads last year, and lost like seven games by a TD or less.

It got us a 2-14 record.

Remember how 'encouraged' we were about not getting our butt handed to us in NE last year.

Anyone read lips? I wanna' know the rest of that!

I agree with the OP. In addition, real, tough, determined football players feed off of confidence. Games like this will give them confidence that the coach knows what he is doing and the system, although it may take time, will work. Once you have guys that will go to war for you, then you can win.

Absolutely. I'm not faulting Croyle for calling that timeout - it shouldn't happen, but I understand why it did.

I do fault Croyle for changing that play at the end of the half - if he's that scared, he shouldn't be on the field.

I couldn't tell what he said at the very end, but it sort of looked like "jesus christ brodie! Your wife is pretty hot!"