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Originally Posted by OnTheWarpath58
This thread is comedy ****ing gold...
Let me preface this by saying again - Smith had a great game.
But some of y'all are ****ing hypocrites.
People bitch and moan all year about Bowe raising his game. What's he do in the playoffs?
150 and a score. Great game, yet people just want to focus on one play.
Meanwhile, Alex raises HIS game as well, and people want to ignore the mistakes he made.
Some of y'all don't even know what your arguing about anymore.
There's not a player or coach who is blameless in this loss. No one played/coached a perfect game. If it makes you feel better to blame just Bowe or Lewis, while absolving others, feel free.
But you look like petulant children in doing so.
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I agree as far as this goes. Both had very good games. Alex arguably made a couple mistakes as did Bowe. I think people point to Bowe's mistake more because that one was the nail in the coffin. All the other mistakes that any other player made up to that point were possible to overcome.
I could also argue that Alex's errors were either negligible or were in some part contributed to by other players i.e. Gray admitting to slowing on the route that Alex over threw, the bad blocking on the fumble, the intentional ground that amounts to the same as the sack.
Alex played a hell of a game. Is he at fault for the loss? Only in the sense of it being a team game and that his play wasn't "perfect". Is it reasonable to place any real blame on him? No, I really don't think so. If you're looking at the game in hindsight and thinking "what can we change to make sure that we win this game next time?" the answer will likely have very little to do with Alex.