Losing like this kind of makes you feel helpless. Like no matter what you do the NFL will find a way to rob you.
I don't know if I feel like we were "robbed." I mean, I don't think it was a good call or even the right call. But it's that ref's interpretation of a horrible rule.
I feel worse and kinda hopeless because this team needs to be good enough to have ten point cushions to win 3-4 of these playoff games in a row. If every game is a nail biter, you are gonna come up on the losing end of those calls before you can win 4 close games in a row. They won't all go your way.
This team isnt a Seattle who can 1) be up by 14 in the fourth quarter, or, relatedly, 2) be the #1 seed to get the benefit of facing a 7-8-1 team and getting a free pass to the championship game.
Those are the edges you need. To get those edges, we need to be better. Part of it was shitty luck this year with 3 NFC teams finishing 12-4. But better plan on being 12-4 next year too. Do that and fortune may favor us with a bye, an easy path to the championship game, and then the ONE call we need to get to the Super Bowl.