Darth Tater

Once we struck out on Stafford, our next move should have been to move up in the draft. Our QB room in August should have been Heinecke, Allen and the pick. The signing of Fitz would not be out of the question anyway.

Will? Don't know. Do know it COULD. Year three is the critical juncture. All coaches who got 3+ years with non-expansion teams and failed to produce at least a playoff contender by year 3 (save 2) have never produced more than a mediocre team. Even one of those that did succeed only got one SB even though he arguably had one of the best QBs of all time. All Washington coaches who swept the Giants in a non-playoff year had a bad ending with the team. OK, Pardee was pretty much already gone when he did it and Rivera is only one of two guys who got to the play-in game at least despite getting swept by them (of course, Gibbs got all the way to the NFCCG). Dan Snyder either goes away and we have new ownership or doesn't and continues to be Dan Snyder. Zac Taylor was on the hot-seat earlier this year and is off now for obvious reasons. Belichick was on the the hot-seat at NE as late as November 2001. Sean McVay is a former Redskins assistant. Took over a 4-12 franchise with nothing to a SB in year two. He did it without a franchise QB made obvious with his later actions. Kyle Shanahan did it in year 3, another former assistant here. He looks to have done it without a QB he truly considers franchise. Zac Taylor took a team that hadn't had a winning record since 2015 to the SB in year 2. This period of losses included 3 straight 10+ loss years. Bruce Arians took his team to the dance in year 2. Raiders made the play-ins despite a CF going on in the front office. A decent season, even if it is really just luck (if your honest, you would agree that we were just 5 plays out of the play-in game this season), gives him another year. Take the team into the playoffs (not just the play-ins) and he probably could even get another suck year the next.

Can't really say how much the RG3 deal set us back because you now are arguing alternative facts. We needed a QB and it not really debatable that Mike would have gone after one with even with no trade. Tannehill worked out but not for the team that picked him. We could have gone another route with our natural number one but who knows if we don't waste it? This is a big question even later on in that draft. The picks missing in 2013? Do we waste those? If we'd gone differently, would the missing picks have been the same? Would they have been wasted? The Ram's pretty much wasted what we gave.

I am a bit jaded since the last franchise guy we had was the result of a trade when we had the assets to do such a trade, played most of his career during a time when this 58 year old was too young to remember much and really did not move the needle much in terms of w-l.

Bill Belichick was considered by some "insiders" to be on the hot-seat as late as early November of 2001.

Probably as far as most of the other options that could.

Looks like the only way the issue is fixed is going to be akin to a black swan event.

I have always seen the phrase used as a CYA/way to support the narrative that fits the boiler-plate the writer has. If a guy is signed the writer didn't want or never heard of and he works out "they just found their guy." If its a fail, the narrative the writer wants to pursue is still safe.

Our fairweather fans left years ago. All we have left are us idiot die hards who have experienced 30 years of mediocrity and down-right suck. "Born down in a dead man's town The first kick I took was when I hit the ground You end up like a dog that's been beat too much Till you spend half your life just covering up" has a different meaning.

I had no gray hair then.

A franchise QB is not going to win you SBs, what he does is gets you more bites at the SB apple (playoffs). If Logan and McKissic don't go down and the defense had played to its 2020 level, we would have been in the playoffs. A top-tier guy could have taken us to the playoff in spite of the injuries and the defensive regression.

Our last multi-year elite QB was a 30-year old vet garnered from a trade. OK, that was almost 60 years ago and we had assets to trade.

Problem with the Rams winning. Isn't the NFC-East the only division that has sent both teams to the NFC championship game? Dallas V Washington Dallas V Phildelphia Washington V NY

Thing is, Green Bay's defense did exactly what you need to do to shut-down a Kyle offense (take away the verts, the quick pass and most importantly, the run). Only two QBSs could have outplayed GB's defense if they were running San Fran today mostly because they are super elusive. True, San Fran's defense was also great (forcing a FG after GB had a 1-goa was probably the most important one) For the most part, franchise QBs aren't why you win specific games, they provide you a guy who can get you multiple opportunities over a decade or more. Yeah, don't really hate the Rams but Matt Stafford is a bit problematic for my tastes. Josh Allen is part of why I find Buffalo boring. Only reason I hate this incarnation of the Cowboys is that, well, they are the Cowboys and I am a WFT fan.

I called it! When GB had the ball first and goal at the San Fran 7, I said that if San Fran holds GB to a FG, San Fran wins. I'm really upset Tenn lost because a Tenn/SFO match up is the only SB that I'd not be a hater-fan of either team. I hate KC and Tampa

Huh? Last year at this time I counted 8 should wins, 5 toss-ups and about 4 should lose. I thought if we won all our shoulds, went 3-2 in the toss-ups and stole a should lose or two we'd win the division hands down. Even if we dropped a should or three or did badly in our toss-ups, a wild-card may have been possible This schedule? 5 should wins, 7 toss-ups and about 5 should loses. We'd have to win all of our shoulds and do well in toss-ups or steal a should lose game or two to have a shot.

Draft doesn't really matter. We will make the playoffs (barely) next season because the new merch based on our new name with being good enough to be hated (but beatable at the same time) which drives the anti-merch market is going to make the NFL big $$.

So, when they showed the seedings if Dallas won, I knew Dallas would not get help. If Dallas had been slated to go to Green Bay, Dallas would have been allowed one last play. Problem is that for them to get the game they wanted, the powers of the NFL would have to allow them to beat their original darling.

If I am a QB in the upcoming draft, I'd be praying that Washington doesn't pick me, at least in the first round. Now, if I'm on there at four..Joe was a four (though not ours) and Kirk. We have drafted 11 passers with our number one since we had some success with a guy named Baugh. Most have never done much of note. Norm Snead did get us Sonny. Bob did give us a fun season. I can only think that is a curse.

Having those picks are what makes it painful to be in that position.

I do think he could have this year. However, this would have been a false positive. False positives should be scary to any WFT fans. 1978, 8-3 but could very easily have been 3-8. 1979, 10-6 to 6-10! 1999, 10-6 and after that were mediocre to suck. 2012, 2015 and maybe 2020? This season, we lost 4 games we could have easily won (yes, 5 of our wins could easily have been losses). We could be arguing we just need a few tweaks instead of realizing we still need real work and be in for real pain in 2022. My bet is Eagles fans may be in for it due to their false positives season.

A successful running game is dependent on all 11 of your guys doing their job pretty consistently and mistakes will kill unless you also have a stud pass game. A working passing game requires as few as two guy to execute. You are also less dependent on your defense.

Samuels is a synonym for injured.

Because the real curse is not supernatural. Now we know the real source of Dan's money to buy the team, it was those who we thought put us under some supernatural curse.

Rodgers reminds me of an interview with Kirk Douglas (iirc): Interviewer: Why has success turned you into such an asshole (not the words used but what might be asked today)? Douglass: I've always been an asshole, success has just allowed me to be myself.