“We are who we thought we were.” Or, from Bill Parcells: “We are what our reord says we are.”
On most of the Braves journey from the end of around 2003 (maybe actually not fully realized until the 2005 postseason) until the mid season of 2018, the theme seemed to be that at least one component of the team would perform badly enough to offset the good. Then, until this year, it seemed that if there was a failing, something else or someone else would bail them out. At this point in the season, I have become convinced that we are what our record says that we are.