[Dr. Doom]

Good thread lots of good points made.

I think it comes down to a few points already made:

1. The players we rely on to lead are getting old, and less passionate year by year.
2. We have had no strength up the middle and this has killed us.
3. All teams lose "consistency" throughout the season, and salary cap / parody goes hand in hand with this. The truly better teams will plow through these periods better and pull off gut check wins a lot more frequently than the bad teams however.
4. Is the raw talent there enough to be a contender in this league? Shootouts seem to indicate we don't have very good hands anymore. Think Huselius when he was juicing it up for us.
5. Common theme year after year there's a lot of parts to this team that aren't contributing often enough or even at all.

In the end the bottom line is this team, as right up against the cap as it is, is not one of the better teams in a parody filled league and our teetering record is proving that.