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Heres where I am, I used to be a pollyanna, I would get so stoked every offseason when we would win the offseason championship by signing the biggest names. I would drink the koolaid when we would sign the next big thing as our coordinators who would save us (anyone remember Al saunders?Ron Lynn? Mike Nolan?) I even believed the hype rather than my own eyes for a while when people told me " your team is brutal but at least your O and D lines are solid". Im done with that. We suck, period.
Now I am the ultimate "show me" fan, I no longer believe that an NFL coach knows more about football than I do, not just because I am an amateur football coach but because Ive seen some of them do incredibly stupid things and make decisions that I knew were stupid. I dont think that every NFL GM is some sort of guru who has a secret for drafting because everyone makes mistakes and I have to assume they have far more detailed info than any of us have.
I said at the beginning of this off season that I personally would prefer us to blow up the Offence and rebuild it from the ground up, at the time the only players I would have kept were Campbell (to place hold for our real QB) Santana, Cooley, Portis, sellers, davis, and mike williams and maybe Dock on the Oline but everything else was brutal and needed replacing. Including the coordinator. We did that, upgraded several spots and yet we still suck.
I thought that our defence with a few tweaks was manageable, our poor performances were more about our non aggressive scheme than lack of anything more than a Sam backer and a solid FS. Instead they blew up the defence and completely chnaged the scheme. now instead of having a decent defence we suck.
I was told " we need to rebuild so give it time" "nobody thought we would be any good this season" " we only won 4 games last year" and other bon mots.
Im sorry but it doesnt wash, trading a second rounder for a 32 year old QB from a division rival is a won now move period, you can say it was to stabilise the QB position, or that it was to prevent us from losing more games than last season but by that very definition , not losing more games means.....?Oh yeah WINNING NOW.
We traded draft picks for a RT coming off injuries, but who if healthy was a huge upgrade over our backup LT who was forced to play RT.
We signed a bunch of old Running backs instead of finding young guys to develop, that smacks of a win now mentality. We even cut the guy starting for us now to keep those old guys around longer lol.
Instead of taking flyers on young guys who have upside and a shot to get better (which most rebuilding teams would do) we stayed with Roydell and Joey neither of whom have any upside anymore.
WE GOT OLDER AS A TEAM, again not the hallmark of a rebuilding team, the excuse we were given was " we have so many players to get rid of that we needed to sign stopgap players." but we cut guys like Cornelius only to add guys like Vonnie Holiday, so we traded our old washed up guys for someone elses. There were lots of young practice roster types we could have taken flyers on but instead we went with aging guys who would give us more of what we knew MEDIOCRITY.
We signed a terrible coordinator in what I honestly believe was a hedge your bets move, It was brialliant by shannahan, because his offence is underachieving, nobody notices it because THE DEFENCE WENT FROM 5TH TO 32ND BOO DEFENCE, THE DEFENCE SUCKS, FIRE HASLETT HASLETT SUCKS PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN OR HIS OFFENCE THAT SUCKS DESPITE SUPPOSED UPGRADES. Noone with any football acumen at all could possibly think we have the correct players to run a 3-4, we lacked depth at the 2 positions that you NEED depth at to be solid in a 3-4, we had no Dt's other than AH (gholston was solid in a rotation as a high effort guy but is brutal at 3-4 end)
and we had to move a DT to linebacker because we just didnt have any OLBS THE KEY POSITION IN A 3-4. Yet I still had people who supposedly know football telling me that "other teams have been good with the switch to a 3-4 so we will too" never mind that the only player who this fits would also be a stellar 4-3 end. They said "why are you so negative about this? you must just be biased against the 3-4 because its a better defence. LMAO
so no I am not willing to wait another year, why should we? this defence sucks now, and it will suck next year, even if we add a stud NT its gonna suck, why? because we cant add 6 starters in one seasonand thats the minimum we will need.
so I will continue to be negative until this team and this FO shows me a reason to be positive , and no winning a couple games isnt gonna do that, I need tangible improvement and the idea that we are building something, not just hanging around.
Heres where I am, I used to be a pollyanna, I would get so stoked every offseason when we would win the offseason championship by signing the biggest names. I would drink the koolaid when we would sign the next big thing as our coordinators who would save us (anyone remember Al saunders?Ron Lynn? Mike Nolan?) I even believed the hype rather than my own eyes for a while when people told me " your team is brutal but at least your O and D lines are solid". Im done with that. We suck, period.
Now I am the ultimate "show me" fan, I no longer believe that an NFL coach knows more about football than I do, not just because I am an amateur football coach but because Ive seen some of them do incredibly stupid things and make decisions that I knew were stupid. I dont think that every NFL GM is some sort of guru who has a secret for drafting because everyone makes mistakes and I have to assume they have far more detailed info than any of us have.
I said at the beginning of this off season that I personally would prefer us to blow up the Offence and rebuild it from the ground up, at the time the only players I would have kept were Campbell (to place hold for our real QB) Santana, Cooley, Portis, sellers, davis, and mike williams and maybe Dock on the Oline but everything else was brutal and needed replacing. Including the coordinator. We did that, upgraded several spots and yet we still suck.
I thought that our defence with a few tweaks was manageable, our poor performances were more about our non aggressive scheme than lack of anything more than a Sam backer and a solid FS. Instead they blew up the defence and completely chnaged the scheme. now instead of having a decent defence we suck.
I was told " we need to rebuild so give it time" "nobody thought we would be any good this season" " we only won 4 games last year" and other bon mots.
Im sorry but it doesnt wash, trading a second rounder for a 32 year old QB from a division rival is a won now move period, you can say it was to stabilise the QB position, or that it was to prevent us from losing more games than last season but by that very definition , not losing more games means.....?Oh yeah WINNING NOW.
We traded draft picks for a RT coming off injuries, but who if healthy was a huge upgrade over our backup LT who was forced to play RT.
We signed a bunch of old Running backs instead of finding young guys to develop, that smacks of a win now mentality. We even cut the guy starting for us now to keep those old guys around longer lol.
Instead of taking flyers on young guys who have upside and a shot to get better (which most rebuilding teams would do) we stayed with Roydell and Joey neither of whom have any upside anymore.
WE GOT OLDER AS A TEAM, again not the hallmark of a rebuilding team, the excuse we were given was " we have so many players to get rid of that we needed to sign stopgap players." but we cut guys like Cornelius only to add guys like Vonnie Holiday, so we traded our old washed up guys for someone elses. There were lots of young practice roster types we could have taken flyers on but instead we went with aging guys who would give us more of what we knew MEDIOCRITY.
We signed a terrible coordinator in what I honestly believe was a hedge your bets move, It was brialliant by shannahan, because his offence is underachieving, nobody notices it because THE DEFENCE WENT FROM 5TH TO 32ND BOO DEFENCE, THE DEFENCE SUCKS, FIRE HASLETT HASLETT SUCKS PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN OR HIS OFFENCE THAT SUCKS DESPITE SUPPOSED UPGRADES. Noone with any football acumen at all could possibly think we have the correct players to run a 3-4, we lacked depth at the 2 positions that you NEED depth at to be solid in a 3-4, we had no Dt's other than AH (gholston was solid in a rotation as a high effort guy but is brutal at 3-4 end)
and we had to move a DT to linebacker because we just didnt have any OLBS THE KEY POSITION IN A 3-4. Yet I still had people who supposedly know football telling me that "other teams have been good with the switch to a 3-4 so we will too" never mind that the only player who this fits would also be a stellar 4-3 end. They said "why are you so negative about this? you must just be biased against the 3-4 because its a better defence. LMAO
so no I am not willing to wait another year, why should we? this defence sucks now, and it will suck next year, even if we add a stud NT its gonna suck, why? because we cant add 6 starters in one seasonand thats the minimum we will need.
so I will continue to be negative until this team and this FO shows me a reason to be positive , and no winning a couple games isnt gonna do that, I need tangible improvement and the idea that we are building something, not just hanging around.
Other than that I just try and keep my mouth shut. 
