Suppose one were to accept every point you made!
1. why the injuries every year?
2. why the bad calls every season?
3. why the poor judgement on QBs for decades?
4. why the inability to draft ANY quality receiver who can stay on the field longer than a few games? why the inability to draft a top tier receiver year in and year out?
5. why the inability to turn this team around in marginally reasonable timeframes? say 2-5 years.
you know my answer.
You don't take the time to read what has beed repeatedly said on certain topics, referees being one of them. My thoughts on this are almost entirely in line with Boone. Calls by referees are inconsistent throughout the NFL, but there are bad calls that happen throughout the game that can be overcome, like a missed FG or a dropped TD pass in the EZ.
In this single example he has given, the poor call weighs much heavier on the outcome of the game, because there was less than a minute on the clock, and it's the difference between us being in 1st place and 2nd Wild Card.
While saying the outcome was 100% certain that the call cost us the game is not taking into consideration we had an injured kicker...we can still say he would have made it with some certainty. At the very least we were robbed of the opportunity to win the game with an easy FG by a very poor call by the refs, a call the NFL admitted was wrong.
What you seem to have missed or choose to ignore in Boone's post was his preface in his reply about the refs, and what I said last week when we lost that game. We do not like blaming the refs, games are rarely won or lost on single plays. It is a culmination, but this is a prime example of how this team was robbed by the refs whether you like hearing it or not.
As for your assertion about the overall responsibility for our woes...we agree.
1. Injuries? Not sure it it's NFL standards for contact in practice, poor athletic trainers...but there is some legitimacy in the front office's responsibility for not addressing injuries properly. I'll give you 2 examples.
WR...we had injuries across the board at that position last year, even our most productive WR on the roster, so what do we do? Sign a single, oft injured WR. Horrible! The 2nd is the RB position...how many RB's did we go through last year? So what did we do to address it? We drafted one good RB, and brought back all those injured RB's.
2. Bad Calls? I am not sure if it is Mara and the Rooneys in a conspiracy against us because they hate Dan for changing the FA market back in then early 2000's. It might be because of the name. Or we simply are unlucky. But this team gets a lot of poor calls, we just aren't the NFL darlings.
3. QB? Well...we're not the only ones in that department...it's tough to find a good QB. But yeah, McNabb, RG3, Kirk, and Smith...not good acquisitions or poorly handled contracts by our FO.
4. Again, we're not the only ones, but yeah...another position we miss the mark, almost always.
5. Turnaround?
It all boils down to our FO, you know it, I know it, and I think most people understand it. However, don't expect much more with Dan Snyder at the helm.
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