UKBillFan

It's a mentality issue which needs to be worked on. And that's across the franchise, for which Josh is part of. He made an error he shouldn't have made in a key siutuation, plus could have easily been intercepted four times. He's played better, he'll play better, but when the pressure is on, in one score games, the choke seems to follow across the board. That needs to be sorted.

The Miami defense didn't hold up. We gave it to them due to simple errors.

They said in commentary 97-99 (I thought, unless I misheard and it was 87-89!). Unless they meant it's building to that? Could it be warmer on the field?

Sorry, re-read my post and say where I think we should trade Josh? I'm just not blowing smoke up him when he left too many points on the field. So many trips to the redzone (which he deserves credit for) with no to little award. And that is partially down to him.

Except in the red zone. All those yards and we only scored 17 from offense?

As an aside, Lazard was just treated with ice and cold towels the moment he came off the field in Tampa. Temperature there between 97-99.

The NFL should have stepped in and pulled him during the first series of the third quarter. Not wait until now.

Considering how he left the field in the second quarter, I have doubts if he realised he was even talking to Josh.

Of course, without a Quarterback, a team loses to 0. But when we needed him to stand up he didn't. He's paid the big money for a reason; we need him to step up in those situations. He currently has a 0-7 record against his name when it comes to one score games. It's not all down to him (and some not at all down to him) but it's a dreadful return and, today, he is at least partially responsible for it.

Do they? We didn't run the ball on short conversions against the Titans when we had a fit OL.

It wasn't. That's the worst thing.

Don't think I can disagree with anything you said. We lost because of those on the field (and in the coaching booths), I'd argue more than those who were missing.

Sadly the gaffe is what helped lose us the game. It's all very well doing the brilliant, but the simple has to be done too. And he does, for the most part, but...

You could argue none of them. Far too many stupid mistakes by those present, who have generally otherwise done brilliantly for us - Josh, Bass, Milano, Davis, McKenzie, Dorsey...

Our defense coped better with the losses than the offense, which is promising in one sense. And, admittedly, we could plan for the losses on defense throughout the week whereas we had to continually adapt with the offensive losses (Morse aside). But still - simple errors in a pressurised situation is why we lost today. And why we've lost the last 7 one score games.

On the Sky coverage, Jason Bell said the game came down to conditioning. When Josh was preparing to throw to Isiah for that TD he didn't have the legs to do it. And that's what gave Miami the win.

It's not as though the close game record is 0-1 or something. 0-7. Our last SEVEN one score games have all been defeats.

This is what I mean by the mentality.

In fairness, he spent big on Miller but he didn't really turn up today. Rousseau did far more.

Yes, there was one bad play on defense but with the injuries I thought that side of the ball did brilliantly.

And I had faith we were going to finally do it too. That's the worst thing.

Trying to compose myself. The issue is the majority of injuries was on defense. If we lost 42-38 or something I don't think I'd be so annoyed. But somehow we only put up 17 points (plus the screwed up safety on their part). We needed the offense today, we needed our MVP today. And it didn't work out.

It's not the losing, it's the way we lost. OK, fair point, I'm probably over-reacting. Just had a **** day and this has topped it off.

The blowouts are great, but we can't win every game by more than one score.

In fairness, the Dolphins missed plays too.