Redskin in Canada wrote:"This team makes you want to pretend that you don’t see what you actually see, hear what you really hear. The worst and the saddest sight of all is the apparently poisoned relationship between Gruden and Griffin. Especially since owner Daniel Snyder will be tempted, given any option, to side with Griffin — at least to the extent that he may insist Gruden and Griffin coexist next year in the same dysfunctional relationship. Bring ’em both back! What could be worse? So, for this team, that’s what will happen."
Tom Boswel, WP
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/re ... story.html
NO HOPE. Daniel Snyder's PRIDE and the sweet talk of Bruce Allen in his ear will FORCE both Jay Gruden and RGIII to co-exist yet another season.
It will not work, of course. But you all seem to fail to understand the "logic" behind ...
This is about finding a SCAPEGOAT.
This disaster is not the result of Daniel Snyder's decision to make the trade with the Rams for the pick. He is not at fault.
This disaster is not the result of Bruce Allen understanding of Daniel Snyder's "logic" for star power, give "football legitimization" to the decision for the trade and his rise in the Redskins organization just like Rasputin did.
This disaster is not the result of the shortcomings of Robert Griffin III. He is just misunderstood and poorly coached ... twice.
This year's disaster and the disaster NEXT year can and WILL be attributed to Jay Gruden. It is just a bit easier to FIRE a HC after TWO abysmal seasons instead of just ONE.
Under this scenario, Daniel Snyder's pride as owner is saved (and his willingness to intervene again in the future). Bruce Allen, the President can escape the responsibility of siding with the owner notwithstanding the fact that his Tampa years brought him to justify most of his actions and he can also STAY as head of the most powerful figure in the organization preventing the possibility of giving any possible control to a true knowledgeable General Manager (an Ozzie Newsome). Robert Griffin also gets at least a year or two to linger around. After all, competition is not really hard against Colt McCoy and Kirk Cousins, is it?
YES, there will be change, just not before the start of next season. Jay Gruden might and he will welcome and enjoy enormously being fired from the most DYSFUNCTIONAL organization in the whole of world sports (Yes, the LA clippers compare favourably against the Snyder Skins). Who would not enjoy an extra 3-year salary on holidays and capable to pay all of his psychotherapy sessions to remove any trauma scars after a 2-year tour of Washington and then enjoy the prospect to coach other teams against and beat Daniel Snyder's team? Other coaches enjoy this pleasure already. Awesome.
A nice quote reminds me of this chronicle announced a year in advance: "plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose" or "the more things change, the more it's the same thing".
Poor Redskins fans. Some still suffering from self-deception, delusion, chest thumping win-or-LOSE valour, defrauded emotionally and economically, incapable to distinguish between rational analysis and eternal unfounded hope.
I admire you and I love you guys. I really do. I love you so much that I almost pity you if it was not for the fact that some of you think that ONLY IF the right coach comes, things will be fine. Obviously, Joe Gibbs II did not teach you ANYTHING.
Me? Not a fan anymore of a Daniel Snyder team. I will not attend a game. I will not watch. I will not pay. I want him to FAIL. I want an empty stadium. I want him BROKE. I want him to be focus of national scorn and ridicule. I want him to REMAIN the laughingstock of the NFL and the world of sports. I want him to PAY economically and socially for all the pain and hurt that he has brought to employees, players, coaches, and mostly true fans and their families. over the last 16 years.
You do not have to join many of us now. You will though. We are patient. We have the best ally one can have in support of our cause: Daniel Snyder.
How prophetic could this become? Griffin and Gruden coming back. Not much actually. It was actually VERY predictable outcome PROVIDED that any Washington fans removes its blinders, stops the delusion or prevents its blind loyalty to preserve in an eternal but unjustified hope for change.
Check some highlights of Boswell's WP article today:
Many fans, of course, already have had the sense of self-preservation to stop watching this team. But others have continued, out of masochism, lifelong habit, morbid curiosity or loyalty. For us, Sunday was a relief. What next? A long, blessed respite from buffoonery.
This final defeat, the team’s seventh loss in eight games and its 20th in its past 24 — the worst stretch of play since 1960-61 when the team was 1-9-2 and 1-12-1 — has left the franchise without a single strong suit or central personality around which to build. Will Gruden or Griffin or both be back next year? Probably both but not certainly — not after this stinker. Will defensive coordinator Jim Haslett return? His defense tied for the second-most points allowed — 31st — even worse than the average of his past 13 defenses as a head coach or defensive coordinator (26th).
What hasn’t gone wrong? Only once in the history of the franchise has Washington been this bad, back in 1960-61. Then, everybody said some variation of, “It’ll never be this awful again.” Because, come on, how could it be? But it is worse — right now. Because Dan Snyder owns the team.
After 15 years, it’s not hyperbole, just observation, to say he seems to have no clue about the NFL or evaluating key people or building an organization. But he also has no other major passion. He is his team. Vindication, someday, drives him. So he’s stuck. Which means the city is stuck with him.
Perhaps this is the moment when we can all adopt the veteran wisdom of Santana Moss. “I’m going to go vacate,” he said, “and enjoy my sanity.”
Or for some of us, what’s left of it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/re ... lt_strip_1
What hasn't gone wrong?
Fellow columnist Jason Reid provides the answer in the next column:
While watching the Dallas Cowboys toy with the Washington Redskins on Sunday, one question came to mind: What is Dan Snyder thinking?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/re ... story.html
As you can see, Welch has often argued that there was a time when the Washington Redskins were worse than now. Not true anymore as you can read in both articles. But this is not rock bottom. That stage would be a relief. The downward spiral continues and it WILL continue next season, NOTWITHSTANDING the promise of CHANGE through the sacrifice of a few already doomed scapegoats.
Boswell and Santana are right. Save whatever sanity is left of it. Join me Washington Redskins fans. Daniel Snider stole the team from us. I am not a fan anymore of a Daniel Snyder team. I will not attend a game. I will not watch. I will not pay. I want him to FAIL. I want an empty stadium. I want him BROKE. I want him to be focus of further national scorn and ridicule. I want him to REMAIN the laughingstock of the NFL and the world of sports. I want him to PAY economically and socially for all the pain and hurt that he has brought to employees, players, coaches, and mostly true fans and their families. over the last 16 years.
Boswell is right in his appreciation of Snyder: "He is his team. Vindication, someday, drives him. So he’s stuck".
UNLESS ... he stops profiting from our pockets. If you are angry ... REALLY ANGRY ... join me. Not a single cent should go into his pocket. Force him to sell or leave Washington DC.
