It's not a "knee-jerk reaction" when I've been down on the offense for most of the season; they're simply too inconsistent, and as great as the defense has been too much of this season has been reliant on an otherworldly and unsustainable level of defensive scoring. Now they've likely made the OL even worse and they still have a terrible OC running the offense too often. I mean, the crux of my argument is that the OL is terrible, Tice is terrible and the defense can't sustain the level of scoring production that all but carried the team for a while there. If people want to disagree with the idea they wouldn't be likely to get anywhere in the playoffs, fine, but it's not like my reasoning is based out of anything that I don't think anyone would disagree with here. I don't even know why we need to write paragraphs about this: Make the playoffs and you have a chance to do something - so just make the post season Its not like, likely that we win the superbowl but whatever make the playoffs