txpd
Registered User
Games like this are why we are and have been a "bubble team" this year. We're going to be inconsistent. We'll look like world-beaters one night and duds the next. Especially if playing well gets some attention from opponents who buckle down and raise their game at a time when we start to get comfortable and believe our own hype.
This has always been a team that relies on confidence momentum, but paradoxically loses that momentum as confidence turns to complacency. You can't win them all but you can at least look like you're trying to.
The other team is getting paid too. They are 9-1-2 at home. I think that is the best in the league. They had just gotten skunked on a road trip. Caps have been on a roll.