No rebuild is 100 percent smooth sailing. Just ask anyone who's tried to remodel a kitchen or renovate a master suite. After six very encouraging games, Bronco's boys have hit a snag. The word from the head man this week, echoed by Joe Reed and Micah Kiser, was that the Boston College beatdown left a hangover nasty enough to drag all the way to Heinz Field. And boy howdy did it show.
But the first step to recovery is recognizing you've got a problem. Old habits die hard, and a putrid recent history of losing can go from a habit to a whole damn culture.