it seems familiar to me, too. Gross isn't technically right, I don't remember multiple games without sweeps, but certainly, we ran the shit out of them early and then they were all but gone.
Anyway, I think one thing that meat, etc miss out on when we talk about scapegoating is that there hasn't been any non-Keyshawn support in the media from the players and that we've seen a fairly steady, but abbreviated, stream of criticism that goes from the new (Wahle), to the old (Proehl) to the ones who make it go (Smith).