Nuance is often lost in the world of football analysis. If a team wins, everybody is awesome. If a team loses, everybody is awful. That’s just how it works in the reaction-driven society we live in.
The truth is that good and bad things can occur simultaneously on a football field. At the same time the New York Jets can lose in disappointing fashion to the similarly woeful Dolphins at home, numerous players can perform well – and the team has every right to come out of that game feeling good about those promising individual performances.