by RiverDog » Sun Jan 12, 2020 11:24 am
I felt that our 2012 squad was the best team in the conference, and had our defense not played so loose in the last minute of the divisional playoff game vs. the Falcons, we probably would have gotten there. Although it was at home when we used to have a huge HFA, we beat the Niners so bad in the 2nd to last regular season game that IMO we would have blown them out in the NFCCG.
But I don't think there's a lot of similarities between our 2012 team and this year's addition. Russell was more like Lamar Jackson, didn't have the receiving weapons he has now, and our defense was much stronger in 2012 although losing Clemmons hurt us badly as we didn't have a decent replacement.