Patience 2.0
 

OK, so we lost to Dallas. Lets not lose our cool and prospective. The season is young and everyone seems to be writing us off. Keep the faith Skins fans. Special teams turned it around and I have no doubt the offense will come around. Once we get our team fully we'll be rolling. I leave you with words of wisdom all centered around the word patience.

[QUOTE]Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

- Leonardo da Vinci [/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

-Immanuel Kant [/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

-Brian Adams[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

-Hyman Rickover [/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

-Titus Maccius Plautus[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.

-William Shakespeare [/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]
Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

-Cato the Elder [/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]He that can have patience can have what he will.

-Benjamin Franklin [/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

-Aristotle [/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is simple patience.

-Horace Bushnell[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]
Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn into bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.

-Sir Francis Bacon [/QUOTE]

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"Patience is the Redskin fan who has been waiting since 1992 for a return trip to the Super Bowl"

-724Skinsfan

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"The Future is Now!" - Former Redskins Coach George Allen

"Patience? There's only 16 games man!" - Current Redskins Fan Mike Hedrick

lol

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If you would like a nice test of your patience watch Joe Gibbs press conference from today.

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Shed a tear 'cause I'm missing you
I'm still alright to smile
Girl, I think about you every day now
Was a time when I wasn't sure
But you set my mind at ease
There is no doubt you're in my heart now
Said woman take it slow
It'll work itself out fine
All we need is just a little patience
Said sugar make it slow
And we'll come together fine
All we need is just a little patience
(inhale) Patience...
Ooh, oh, yeah

Sit here on the stairs
'Cause I'd rather be alone
If I can't have you right now, I'll wait dear
Sometimes, I get so tense
But I can't speed up the time
But you know, love, there's one more thing to consider
Said woman take it slow
Things will be just fine
You and I'll just use a little patience
Said sugar take the time
'Cause the lights are shining bright
You and I've got what it takes to make it
We won't fake it, Oh never break it
'Cause I can't take it

...little patience, mm yeah, ooh yeah,
Need a little patience, yeah
Just a little patience, yeah
Some more pati... (ence, yeah)
I've been walking these streets at night
Just trying to get it right (Need some patience, yeah)
It's hard to see with so many around
You know I don't like being stuck in a crowd (Could use some patience, yeah)
And the streets don't change but maybe the name
I ain't got time for the game
'Cause I need you (Patience, yeah)
Yeah, yeah well I need you
Oh, I need you (Take some patience)
Whoa, I need you (Just a little patience is all we need)

-Axl Rose

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Good post. 2 games don't make a season, and they were in both games. The offense will come together eventually - they have a lot of good players and a good coordinate. But that LINE can't wait: it must improve immediately.

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~waves a lit BIC lighter slowly to the music with arm raised.

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patience is the Redskins offense...oh, nevermind, thats incompetance

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[QUOTE=saden1;217222]Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

-Brian Adams[/QUOTE]

That's not the Brian Adams who sung such classics as "Everything I Do," "When a Man Loves a Woman," and "Summer of 69", is it?

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[QUOTE=mheisig;217272]That's not the Brian Adams who sung such classics as "Everything I Do," "When a Man Loves a Woman," and "Summer of 69", is it?[/QUOTE]

Uh no...that would be Bryan Adams you're talking about.

Good thread!

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[QUOTE=wilsowilso;217232]If you would like a nice test of your patience watch Joe Gibbs press conference from today.[/QUOTE]

I suppose you'd like to see him blow up like Parcell? What did you really expected from him? Blast the players? Cut somebody to show off his authority?

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[I]There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.[/I] - E Burke

[I]Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.[/I] - Bill McGlashen

[I]Patience, n. -- A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.[/I] - Ambrose Bierce

[I]F**k patience! [/I] - RedskinRat

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I'm getting clowned from left to right today by my managers (Bears and Seahawks fans). They seem to think that we have only two games that are winnable on our schedule and one even boldly predicted we're no better than 8-8. It pains me to take crap from them but I have patience on my side. Mark my words, we'll have the last laugh.

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[QUOTE=skinsguy;217274]Uh no...that would be Bryan Adams you're talking about.

Good thread![/QUOTE]

Ah.

My knowledge of sappy love song composers is suprising...

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My mom is a nurse at Children's Hospital. She deals with patients all the time.

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:towel: [QUOTE=ArtMonkDrillz;217296]My mom is a nurse at Children's Hospital. She deals with patients all the time.[/QUOTE]

:towel:

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[QUOTE]The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. - Ben Franklin[/QUOTE]


Applied to this season = Stop whining about Brunell every day. :D

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what do you mean every day? this is going to last all season, and then some

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[quote=GB1;217237]Good post. 2 games don't make a season, and they were in both games. The offense will come together eventually - they have a lot of good players and a good coordinate. But that LINE can't wait: it must improve immediately.[/quote]

ACCORDING TO THE EXPERTS IT DOES!

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good post saden. I like the title :)

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[quote=saden1;217285]I'm getting clowned from left to right today by my managers (Bears and Seahawks fans). They seem to think that we have only two games that are winnable on our schedule and one even boldly predicted we're no better than 8-8. It pains me to take crap from them but I have patience on my side. Mark my words, we'll have the last laugh.[/quote]

Very nice quotes saden. I don't know if I speak for everyone else, but honestly I've been done worrying about Sunday. I'm ready for Houston, Brunell or not.

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A little patience for the fans (so we all don't go insane), but there better be some sense of urgency for the team.

The team better figure things out as fast as they can.

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As a fan, I can be patient. Hell, I have been patient since 1992 - through Petibon, Turner, Schottenheimer and (sigh) Spurrier and now for year three of Gibbs; through Casserly, Cerrato, Schottenheimer and Cerrato 2.0; through Jacke Kent & John Cooke and now Snyder (at the next game, I will be selling T-shirts saying "I bought the most expensive ticket in the NFL and all I got was a meglomaniacal owner who couldn't run a Madden Playstation team"). After the build-up this year, however, being told to, yet again, be patient is very bitter pill.

Don't get me wrong. I think this team is light years ahead of where it was under Spurrier – But I was lead to believe this was the year it was going to payoff. I was given this impression not from the media (though they did seem to be given us a newfound degree of respect), not from the homers who think always think this is the year (though, again, the hope seemed more well-founded based on last year's performance), and not from the coaching staff (who made it clear that last year bought nothing but a harder schedule).

No, this year's high expectations came from the players directly. They constantly spoke of this year being something special, telling us fans that they wanted and needed us because this year was their year, that this was the year "Superbowl or bust" was the appropriate slogan. From the QB who talked of Superbowl, to the veterans who told us that poor preseason play was nothing to worry about, this was a team that encouraged us to expect big things of them.

Given their statements, my concern with being patient is that the players have simply got the wrong attitude and that their "patience" is what is the root of the problem. Whether it is the QB, the line, WR's or the defense – what we are seeing is PLAYERS not winning the games. Gibbs can take as much on himself as he wants, but the truth is the players are simply not winning their physical battles, committing penalties that kill/sustain drives, and simply not making plays. Are they not as talented as their competition? I don't think so – they may not be the most talented team in the league but, given their finish last year, this team has talent comparable to and capable of beating good teams. Rather, I think the players seemed to assume things would "click" and got lazy.

I saw no sense of urgency in either of the first to games. By urgency, I mean that the players did not play focused and mean. Yes, injuries hurt us, but rather than disrupt the team, this should have them to focus more and to step up their game. I just don't see it. As we have seen, through last year and, by contrast, through the Spurrier years, is that winning on this level requires full time focus and energy. Every little thing counts, all the time. You don't fall into winning – you crave and pursue it. I am afraid this team seemed to assume it would just happen.

Will they step it up? I just don't know.

I guess I'll just have to be patient.

I hate that.