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poor joey. i just keep wanting to hug him.

exercpts from Another Frustrating Season For Joey, by Free Press sports writer NICHOLAS J. COTSONIKA

"It's frustrating," Harrington said, whispering at first. "You look back through the course of the game, and you can pick out five or six plays that coulda, shoulda, woulda made a difference. But you never know when they're going to come up. It's just frustrating."

But when someone suggested quarterbacks were supposed to make strides in their third year of the West Coast offense, Harrington took issue with it.

"Everybody grows at a different rate, because everybody has different experiences," he said. "There's no magic year or magic formula that says, 'By Year 3, he's going to be Joe Montana.' I mean, we've got a lot of things to clean up in the off-season.

"Do I feel like I made strides? Yeah, I do. More touchdowns, less interceptions. Had some success."

"I feel better this year than I did last year, and so in my mind that's improvement," Harrington said. "Is it enough improvement? Was it enough improvement for us to go to the playoffs this year? No. I've got to get better. I mean, everybody in this room has to get better."

Harrington said he would "sit in an ice bucket for a couple of weeks," to heal mentally and physically, then get back to work.

"The season here is so long, you've got to take a minute to yourself and put your head back," he said. "Going through what we went through this year, I mean, there were mornings when it was a struggle to drive into work. Knowing we just lost another close one, that takes a toll on you."

::pats::. poor baby. fuck the media, we love you joey. it ISN'T all your fault.


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