Originally posted by David Stern
http://goallineblitz.com/game/player.pl?player_id=366826 TBF you need to teach this guy confidence. 59 confidence is LOL. That is about what jake delhomme has.59 isn't all that bad, There is more than confidence that factors into morale. He had 3 picks and still ended the game with 85 morale, so I think that shoots your theory right in the foot. No build is perfect, and it would be nice if he had higher confidence, but he doesn't, and we roll with what we got. Besides, even if he threw no interceptions at all, we still lost 2 fumbles and the other qb threw a pick, the results simply would have been less of a rout. Our team morale at the end was decent. Our entire defence was at 93+ with the vast majority being at 100. On offense, vast majority were over 85 morale, 5 guys on offense were in the 70ish range of morale and 1 receiver ended at 53. Not as good as we like, but had we done better as a team it wouldn't have been a factor. Chicken/egg. Low Morale because we didn't play well, or didn't play well due to low morale. Bottom line had we executed better on offense, our morale woulda all been in the 90s.
We simply needed a flawless game with no turnovers and failed to do so, your players beat the snot out of us and took the ball away 6 times when we couldn't realistically afford even 1. Even with all those things detracting from morale they ended decent, and kept up in yardage. For being outleveled and outnumbered as bad as we were, while I am disappointed it was such a wide margin on the scoreboard, I am certainly not gonna blow up on my team or GMs. Our goal has always been to win trophies on the pro level, and if we get some along the way thats great, but we are mostly taking the time to get there to network, and discuss build strategies, set up farms etc. We win less championships, but we have never been a real pushover. You guys whooped us but 15-1 is not too shabby at all in the regular season, and I liked our chances in every game except the one vs you guys, when I knew we had to be spot on.
needless to say, we weren't.