It'll be interesting to see if Ratten brings up the "we need to start playing four quarters" line again. It's a delusional line that coaches use and misses the point of what is going on. It's believing that the one or two good quarters are real, when in reality, poor sides are capable of putting together good patches of football, but don't play good games.
This happened for years with Richo, where he would portray the issue as one of inconsistency between quarters, rather than a system/group of players that are not up to it. I'm concerned that Ratten seems to going down the same path. Any team can point to a good quarter in a game and tell themselves that if they can just do that four quarters, they'll be sweet. It doesn't work like that and the cause of that sporadic performance is not inconsistency, but ineptitude.
This happened for years with Richo, where he would portray the issue as one of inconsistency between quarters, rather than a system/group of players that are not up to it. I'm concerned that Ratten seems to going down the same path. Any team can point to a good quarter in a game and tell themselves that if they can just do that four quarters, they'll be sweet. It doesn't work like that and the cause of that sporadic performance is not inconsistency, but ineptitude.