The team better see the need. Because fans are fed up, and rightfully so.
Because of all the people standing on the ledge threatening to jump, they rushed the presser, IMO. So an anxious fan base, constantly encouraged by a media that thinks they're more important than anything on earth, are having a tantrum because they didn't cure cancer. I got out of the presser what I expected, which was nothing. Save the Haslett confirmation.
That you have the patience of Job is great. But not everyone does. And pretending that fans should just relax,'have faith', and 'be patient' given what we've experienced over and over since Dan Snyder arrived here - sounds a lot like denial to me.
I've been accused of having such patience, but I don't see it. And I'm not pretending fans should relax, have faith, or be patient in the face of what's happened since Snyder took over. I am
saying fans should relax, because they have no control over it, and they will be happier, and live longer, if they learn to focus on the good things in life, more than choosing to dwell in the negative.
I am
saying be patient, this offseason, while so many things are up for change. Predicting what horrible things will happen, and then bitching about them as if they actually did happen, is less productive than Bruce's presser the other day.
I have also tried the point out the
facts that our teams history has had long dismal stretches happen before Snyder. And that this last 20 years includes some Snyder-free years. Which conveniently gets me labeled as a Snyder apologist by a few around here. I can't tell you the countless milliseconds of sleep I haven't lost over that.
No denial from me.
I'm not beating on you Brother Ax, I'm happy for you that you can maintain your positivity in the face of all this obvious failure.
I know you love me Boone. No worries about that. And again, I don't see it so much as maintaining positivity, as I do rejecting negativity. It's a fine line. But my Superman like vision allows me to see the difference that mere mortals might not.
I'm just saying that your view has to constitute something like 1% of all Redskins fandom. So when you get blasted by the other 99%, I'm not condoning it, but I understand it.
The 99 to 1 odds at least gives the 99% a chance. I don't mind it. I do, at times, long for the good old days when there were more weapons available to use for self defense.
And again, the fact that yeah, Bruce Allen may need more than 4 days post-season to figure out how to right the Redskins ship, doesn't mean that Bruce Allen is any any way qualifed, prepared, or capable of figuring out how to right the Redskins ship
Agreed. Which makes it easier for me to not argue with the wall about who had control, and when. Bruce gave a starting date that he can't wiggle out of. Last offseason, he definitively said "the buck stops here". It's a concrete starting point. Nobody has to say/prove what they think really happened, or when. I know most have trouble, or simply refuse, to separate the differing dynamics, from coach to coach, and now, GM to GM, that we've had around here.
And barking at the moon, over an owner who isn't going anywhere, is just barking at the moon.