Oh Columbus.. you're the only team left that we've lost to (up to this point), & only the 2nd team to have beat us twice.. yet somehow i still like you guys.. wth is up with that? I should despise all of you & resent your existence (but instead i only resent joe, and that seems fair to me)

As for "dropping" games... If your defense isn't sitting on the sidelines letting the opposing team run free for the last 10 minutes or you placed the ball in your own end zone & walked away.. then it's not a "drop" because you did make an attempt to stop them, you just failed to do it during the last 10 minutes. It doesn't take long, i think we would have had a blowout win against Columbus if approximately 90 seconds had gone differently, hell.. if the field was half a yard shorter we'd still have won. But if Columbus scored the points.. technically they did "take" the game because Canton had the lead, then Columbus team assumed the lead due to their players placing the ball into your end zone despite Canton's best effort. And you can't say it wasn't your best effort, unless at least half your players were playing at relaxed, in which case you may very well have a point.. but somehow i doubt that is the case. And if the Columbus game was a "drop", that makes the MCD game a bloody avalanche because that one wasn't even close but somehow that doesn't get mentioned at all...
Now back to the apparent qualifications of a "drop".. we had them beat offensively by a good
200 yards (which makes your 50 yard difference seem almost inconsequential). Have you ever beat a team that outgained you by 200 yards, because it's not easy. We had more extra yards in our game than you had at all.. so if
aaaaaany team can lay claim to dropping a game to Columbus, it's Michigan. But we at least respect their ability to score those points & don't try to make ourselves feel better by undermining the efforts of our opponents. If you look at it from their perspective, beating you while being sandbagged by 50 yards isn't squat compared to what they'd done the game before... so no one's gonna play the violin for the sad story of how you got more yards & still lost, and talking down to them despite having less W's & more L's doesn't make a strong case for your argument either. You're the only team in the conference that lost a game & refused to acknowledge the efforts of the team that beat you. You're like the new Cleveland, good.. very good at times, but consumed with myopic denial when you don't meet your own expectations.
And as Columbus can tell you.. being the underdog in the playoffs is no easy feat.. and they know because
they've actually been down that road already, which is why they
know how important seeding can be. Ask Detroit if seeding matters in the playoffs since one game made the difference between playing Orlando or playing a different team. And it mattered to Cleveland because I'm pretty sure they wish they'd won one more game & could have avoided playing Columbus & getting bounced out early. I'm sure Hartford wasn't thrilled to play us in the first round when they could have played a team closer to them in the rankings either. If you're gonna sling mud about the outcome of a game you were in, that's one thing, because at least you were involved in the outcome.. but it's a bit presumptuous to tell a team that went to the playoffs (2 rounds into it at that), about how to get through the playoffs, without ever having actually been to the playoffs.
And dammit Jrad, stop saying good things about Michigan, you'll be the death of us with those sort of jinxes
