bobisimo

Us (us, us, us, us): 36

And them (them, them, them, them): 33

With each passing season over the past 20 years, I find myself becoming more cynical about our beloved team.  Doesn't matter if its a new coach, new front office, new players, draft, etc.  All I want is a consistent product.  Until that happens, I'll remain the same.  Heck, I've only visited ES a dozen or so times over the last year or two as my lack of passion for details fades.

Sadly, I feel very much the same. I've been following the team since '87, I've seen almost every game since then, and I will of course continue to follow them. I admit I've tried a few times to start following other teams and to forget about the Redskins, but I can never follow another team for more than a few games, and I can never make myself miss a single Redskins game. Despite this, my level of passion, as you say, has definitely dropped over time.

Then in 2012, for the first time in a long time, I really felt it. Even early on when we were losing, I felt it. I was excited to just watch the team play. Wins and losses were somewhat irrelevant. But when we went on the winning streak which led to the playoffs, I thought "finally! We're back!" It was probably the most optimistic I've felt about the team and its future since the early '90s. It felt like there was a curse, and it had been broken.

What I've taken from that excitement juxtaposed against where we are now is that it's not even worth thinking about the future, that doing so is a foolish game. In fact, my plan is to not even start thinking about Gruden as head coach, nor his coordinators, until the season starts. And even then I only plan to watch and see how things go.

I've watched and listened to Gruden enough over the last week or so to realize that he certainly addresses what Bruce Allen perceives as the problems. Gruden is personable, charismatic, inspiring, organized, detail-focused, etc. I think he's likeable. But who knows if that will translate into wins.

If Bruce has our problems correctly identified, then I think Gruden may end up being a really, really smart hire. But, as I said, I'm not going to bother to predict or think about the future because this could very well just be a Sisyphean swing. It's, sadly, easy to think that if we lose for the next few years, our next coach might be the counter to Gruden -- and we'd all think "finally!"

I will say this about the future and in agreement with the original post: this is Bruce's house. He's built it. Winning or losing will happen from here, maybe regardless of Bruce's decisions, maybe because of them. But if we lose, then that will be it for Allen. No bump to president or whatever. I'm sure Snyder and Allen have talked about it. I'm sure Snyder let Allen know that he needs to produce a winner. I believe if nothing changes and it's two, maybe three years later, that Snyder flushes the front office and starts over again -- new GM, new scouts, new coaches, clean slate. Who knows what that will look like, but it will happen.

On the other hand, if we can hover *around* 10-6 or better (Gruden's bar for a good team), then I think that result says Allen was right, he figured it out, he deserves the credit and job security, it says he put the right people in the right positions, and then maybe fans like me can finally drop our guard.

Allen was the driving force behind the gold pants, not Shanahan. I doubt they're going anywhere.

I can only hope. I *love* the yellow pants. My wife often jokes I only watch the Redskins because I love the colors. That's not true, but it helps. To me, this is about as good as it gets. I would use it for home and away, haha.

This site has always been a step up from the others, used to be myp2p.net. There are 5 streams and you can see which ones have higher bit rates. Look for something 500kb or over.

http://www.wiziwig.tv/index.php?part=sports

Thank you so much! StreamTorrent is working so well right now!

My veetle feed just cut to the niners! Lame. Back to regular streaming video quality.

I quit the very good feed I was using to switch to veetle. This is amazing.

Joeknows, it's a nice effort but for those of us on Mac, web links are what we need. I signed up for HomerTV a little over a week ago. Hopefully (when I'm approved) that'll keep me going through the rest of the season. JustinTV was so good today, too, until it cut out! The clarity was like watching SDTV.

Thanks to you three so very-very much!

I used this last week, but I don't know if its working yet.

http://extremeskins.com/showpost.php?p=6870539&postcount=1159

I've been checking that off-and-on all day. Like you, I used that last week. I wish that stream torrent stuff worked for mac.

What a crap game. Still, rocketcityskins, thanks for helping us out. I really appreciated it.

As for the NFL, they've shown they can stream games on-line. We can watch SNF on-line -- for free. So why can't they have a $2.00 - $5.00 option for every other game? And, just to be more fair to the NFL, we could even say that the on-line, pay stream doesn't go live until the game sells out -- and only works outside the radius of the two teams' cities. What's the problem here, NFL? Not everyone has satellite or whatever. Give us a break.

i'm not posting another link just to have the nfl stop the game.

thank you! :D :D

Great link, except for the fan commentary, haha.

(I suppose I should have quoted the clue you posted, not this line, but whatever. Haha.)

I would also greatly appreciate a PM with a link to the game if someone finds it, but it looks like live video is done for the day. That sucks.

As long as he doesn't forget that the Redskins are on when he's channel surfing, he can do it for all I care. I'd rather watch a minute of another game then commercials for Windows 7.

http://www.atdhe.net/8649/watch-washington-redskins-vs-carolina-panthers

Yes! Thank you!

Now, please, stay up for the entire game Mr. Link. I would appreciate that greatly!