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That means a defense that doesn’t lose its gap integrity as often as it did against the 49ers. That means catching punts and kickoffs cleanly. That means blocking better up front and getting rid of the ball quicker but not forcing throws. It all means spending the next few days drilling down into what went wrong.
It may be easier just to burn the tape, but that tape is too important.
“When a team puts up 50 on you, every time you think about it, it’s going to hurt you to the core,” edge rusher Mario Addison said. “You’ve got to learn from it. If you don’t learn from the past, you’re doomed to repeat it.
“We had a good team last year, but we didn’t start over. We lost seven in a row after that. You can lose a team like that. So this game, we’ve got to learn from it and come back out and respond. If you don’t respond, it’s hard to keep going week by week.”
So the days ahead could tell us plenty about the rest of the season. Bounce back by beating the Titans and this loss can start to fade in the rearview mirror because the alternative isn’t a road anyone wants to start going down again.
“You can see what happens if you don’t get back on track. You let one bad night ruin the entire second half of our season, that’s what happened last year. You hope that we’re more aware of that,” Olsen said.
“A lot of guys understand and have a bitter taste in their mouth from how that second half of the year went last year, and this is a new team and a new season and all that. If you handle it right, it’s not an issue. If you don’t respond the right way and you think, ‘Oh, it won’t happen again’ just because we say it’s not going to happen, you’re going to be in trouble.”