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Hope they don't hold back:

49ers: 52

Snyder's Remnants: 10

22 hours ago, Wyvern said:

Just noticed that Rivera's birthday is Jan. 7.  Do you think the new ownership would fire him on his birthday?  Maybe they could at least wait until the 8th?

Every day he's allowed to keep his job is a birthday gift, plus he gets a nice severance package.

11 hours ago, Conn said:

You want to model ourselves after a team from a bygone era (over 30 years now) instead of after a successful modern franchise? Does that actually make sense to you? 

I'm well aware of that. I didn't mean for us to dust off the 70s and 80s playbooks and operational manual.

Fundamentals and core principles don't change, regardless of operational, technological, and cultural shifts. Leadership skills, including personal accountability, the ability to communicate to players and staff, humility (accepting changes and adapting), commitment, and sacrifice were hallmark attributes of the regimes responsible for the franchise's glory years. The formula to losing hasn't changed; the same applies to winning. People keep looking to other teams and businesses for the secret sauce or to ape their culture -- nothing Baltimore is doing is new; we've just been that inept for over 2 decades because the organization has been deprived of leadership based on sound core principles which the franchise had previously exemplified, and can be recaptured if new ownership makes the painstaking effort of looking at our history.

3 hours ago, NoVaSkins21 said:

Molding this team after the Ravens is not a bad idea.  They've been a model of consistency for a long time.  Can't wait for this season to be over probably the most important offseason to begin after last offseason

I rather we model ourselves after the team that won 3 titles in 10 years with 3 different quarterbacks than a team that won 2 in 30 years.

“Reportedly” modeling after Baltimore. In other words, tales from someone’s a**.

14 minutes ago, Rufus T Firefly said:

 

 

What you're talking about might have them leave their starters in for a half, trying to get some rhythm, But they could sit a lot of their players and not really care if they win. 

With their offense and our defense, a half of good football is all they need. I’m more convinced breaking a losing streak going into the playoffs is important to the HC.

1 hour ago, Rocky21 said:

I know the 49 ‘ers are going to curb stomp us next weekend but I’m worried about the Cowboys being locked in to the best wild card spot (playoff seed #5), having nothing to play for and benching a bunch of their starters against us the last week of the season.  

That’s why I’m rooting for the Lions to beat them this Saturday (we’ll, any WAS fan would have done that anyway but I digress). No way McCarthy rests his starters and limps them into the playoffs with a 4-game losing streak (Buffalo, Miami, Lions, and then us). Provided the Lions beat them, they’ll look to correct themselves against us and try to enter the post-season on a strong note.

Just now, NickyJ said:

Don't start Sam. Start Fromm. Skip over EB. Make Jennifer King the HC for the last two games. Score some good will points, and then send everyone packing. Howell can rest on the bench, or he can get shipped to Frisco and let him sit behind Purdy.

That’d be transparent to the point of insulting.

10 minutes ago, srtman04 said:

How the **** did Sam Howell get ruined so much?   It's like a different player now vs the beginning of this season.   This is so ****ing sad 

Teams studied him and caught up.

1 hour ago, Number 44 said:

Clearly losing this game would help the Commanders future, draft-pick-wise, but the coaches and players have their careers to think about and will be giving it their best.

Impeccable timing.

It would only make sense for a team of losers to pretend they're something which they're not (winners) and ruin our draft selection in the process. I don't want them to win for the rest of the season. This is still Snyder's team until the head coach and all the personnel people are kicked to the curb, and each player is evaluated at season's end, so they can get humiliated these last few games or lose some "close ones" just as long as they lose!

Jets 31

Was 17

3 hours ago, skinzplay said:

Got black Monday circled on the calendar like it's the day I'm getting released from prison

If you’ve ever been in prison, you wouldn’t need to circle your release date.

Sam being a promising starter was one of those chips we needed to secure a good coach and GM. Makes it that much harder to lure quality personnel or players when we don’t have that position already figured out.

Are we pretending we want to win these games?

On 12/16/2023 at 3:04 PM, Voice_of_Reason said:

When he was hired I was excited because I thought it was the best Dan could do: hire a respected coach who wasn’t going to run a clown shoe organization, and hope for the best.  
 

For the most part that’s come true.  The issue has been they have done a very bad job at roster construction and haven’t found a QB.

 

Ron needed to find a much better GM and empower them.  

I wasn’t as optimistic. It didn’t matter who we brought in. As long as that person answered to a toxic, corrosive, and morally bankrupt owner, with his legion of cronies, then any good intention or design would have been immediately drowned out. You can’t hope to purify a polluted a lake by dumping a bucket of clean water into it. Ron didn’t have the clout or energy to reverse things here. That would have involved a wholesale purging of the toxic VPs, executives, members of the ownership group, their associates, Dan’s family friends, and all the bozos that’ve accumulated over the 25 years and have entrenched themselves into the organization. The team was toxic from the top all the way to the bottom where Ron was, and despite his supposed level of authority I don’t think it was reasonable to assume a HC could make a profound, positive, and sustainable impact in retrospect.

11 hours ago, skinzplay said:

EB should've never had to move to another OC position. His next move from KC should've been as HC. Coming here was a sure-fire death sentence under a putrid, clueless coach/emperor in RR. The team was always bound to fail, no matter what EB (or any OC) brought. What are you gonna do with that line?

 

Lesser accomplished coordinators got HC gigs. You don't need Jessica Fletcher or Colombo to help understand why.

I suspect he came here for a shot at the HC job in the event RR retired or was booted by Snyder. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn some arrangement was made between the two behind Ron’s back before things fell apart for DS.

2 hours ago, Going Commando said:

"Part ways." Lol.  Too embarrassed to admit they're firing the greatest coach in NFL history.

 

That **** is shameful.  You just don't do that when you are lucky to have a Mount Rushmore coach.  You take your medicine and let him decide when things are over.

 

May they never win another Superbowl for that complete lack of gratitude and grace.

I don't feel sympathy toward BB at all. The same ruthless, calculated, and pragmatic measures New England has historically performed on players and player assessment would eventually pivot to underperforming coaches and personnel staff. It's the type of culture that they've promoted, with great success, and Belichick was a proponent of it so he needs to lie in the bed he helped to make.

2 hours ago, Darrell Green Fan said:

I tortured myself and went back and looked at the history at taking a QB top 5.  Let's just say there are a lot more Mariottas than hits.   By a long shot  To trade a guy who has proven he can play in the league, perhaps at a pretty good level, for those odds is a frightening thought. That's why I believe it would be a terrible mistake to trade Sam Howell, it's not like teams are giving up a high pick for him so what are the chances that pick lands a better QB than Howell?

 

 

Agreed.

You don't trade Howell, you build around him. If he fails, then you still have the supportive pieces in place for the next QB. By trading Howell, and having to likely trade draft capital for one of the stud QBs, you take a risk with an unknown and have also compromised your ability to put the supportive pieces around him, therefore nullifying some of his value.

Name change was going to happen eventually, I think. Winning games and titles under the old moniker would have probably set an even greater public spotlight and pressure on it, and accelerated the process. In reality, we just had a lousy and selfish owner who dashed the name and history into the fire in hopes of generating enough goodwill to keep the team and to remove attention from his backsliding ways.

As far as the stadium experience, most of these billionaire owners have been reaping record profits and failing to put more of those earnings toward the product and customer service experience. As with everything else, technology has been a disrupter  — big screen tv sets and speaker systems are more affordable; new in-game cameras are capturing more of the action than can be seen from any stadium seat; and the popularity of RedZone/Fantasy Football/mobile gambling have helped to detach the everyday fan from overexerting themselves toward any single team-focused commitment. Public accessibility, commuter safety, lower ticket prices, a cleaner stadium, and yes, a good football team, will go far in fixing the issues but it will take a lot of financial diligence and commitment from ownership; otherwise, by not putting their large profits back into the product they’re sinking the fan experience even further.

2 hours ago, kingdaddy said:

Ron should go to Josh Harris and ask for a buyout to not make Harris have to fire him. I know he can't quit because he'd lose a ton of money but maybe he can work out a deal where he still does get paid and stays in the organization under some capacity. We have to assume that he knows his goose is cooked so why not do what's best for the organization while still looking out for yourself and your family?

What head coach or GM will come here under the condition that the former guy who oversaw both vital roles would remain an employee in the organization? He’d be a distraction, staff would still see him as coach, and given the size of his ego he’d probably try to exert some influence on the new folks. Just get rid of him so the new team can start afresh unencumbered by remnants of the last regime or having to worry about bumping into Ron in the parking lot.

1 hour ago, DJHJR86 said:

What more does Eric Bieniemy have to do to get a head coaching opportunity?!?!?!

Knowing the culture of this place and the person Dan Snyder is, he probably promised EB the HC job behind Ron’s back in the event Ron quit, retired, or had a poor season this year.

10 hours ago, Wyvern said:

I'm a little disappointed with some of major ES'ers on this message board - we used to "buckle up" for the upcoming game, and express some hope on how we might win.  Now, it's all about 'tanking', who should be fired, who should be cut, etc.

I'll assume a healthier, more positive posture once all remnants of the Daniel Snyder regime, specifically coaches and personnel, are gone. THEN I can actually feel hyped for games, even the tougher ones, because of the newly-aded ingredient added to the recipe called hope.

If we had a pro bowl QB, we’d be everyone’s plan A, so Sam needs to keep playing lights out until season’s end. 

7 hours ago, Conn said:

 

Glad another franchise and fan base has to suffer like we’ve suffered for a quarter century. I’d rather it be a division rival, but I’ll settle for another NFC team. It’s a poor mentality but I’m bitter and don’t care. F them.

Harris is accumulating a lot of goodwill by retaining Ron until the end of the season. Every week Ron stays on, Washington becomes more and more attractive to quality GMs and HCs.