My fear is this what they are thinking too and is very much Warriors thinking after a bad loss. "This week let's try to lose by less and at least make it close". I have seen this movie play out plenty of seasons. I want us to try to win and forget about "at least making it close". Remember we lost last week by 22 points and not thirty at all - and while 22 is a comfortable loss. Go talk the cowboys or eels if you want to find about what a hiding looked last week.
In my mind we had better cattle than the Raiders but due to weird bench use we didn't use some of our cattle at all and Ricky smoked
Webster from a coaching perspective including an all out line speed blitz for the first twenty minutes. Ricky has been around for a long time and I am observing he is improving and starting to become an elite coach instead of just the solid one we all have come to know,
I can see it now from the coaching staff hidden messaging that all means "lose by less this week and then in round 3 off making it close this week we will actually aim up to win. That subtle messaging will sound like
"Let's have a full 80 minute performance this week"
"Let's turn up with fewer missed tackles than last week"
None of those messages involve winning and are instead about losing by less than 6 points this wee.
Screw warriors mentality of the last 7 years. Let's go out there to win and whatever we lose by is just a loss. Let's not put store in losing well.