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Originally Posted by Schneed10
Yet these two eggs are coming at a time when we're healthier than we were against New Orleans and Seattle.
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This team isn't healthier. You can tell by how gassed the defense gets after one half of a football game. That comes from having nobody to rotate in. The offense isn't healthier. We have one running back. Half of the offensive line out on IR, and the guys playing are all playing hurt. Our back ups to the backups to the other backups continue to get hurt. Our best receiver is Ryan Grant. He shouldn't be anywhere near a starting lineup. How Gruden was able to keep this team competitive up until the last two weeks has been nothing short of amazing. He's literally fielding a team of third stringers and practice squad guys. Kirk Cousins has been the only constant starter throughout the season.
If anything, those two eggs are indicative to the fact that this team has ran out of juice, physically. The players who have check out mentally, the ones Swearinger was calling out, is an indictment on Bruce Allen, not Jay Gruden. I believe Gruden is doing everything he can do to get the players ready, but if they're still asking questions about assignments 5 minutes before the game, that is a sign that A) The coach has nobody else to put in and B) the front office has done a lousy job at player acquisition.
I don't care who the coach is, as long as you have the wrong people in charge with bringing in guys to complete the roster, the head coach will never be truly successful, save for a mirage of a good season sprinkled in here or there. The first guy that needs to be looked at it Bruce Allen. His handling of the Kirk Cousins contract talks, the RGIII situation, his handling of Scot McCloughan's firing, his overall poor winning % under his direction (GMs share in the win/loss ratio as well), his inability to bring in solid mid-season acquisitions to give the team a fighting chance, and his inability to find solid contributors in the lower rounds of the draft. There is more than enough to boot Allen to the curb. And if you think Gruden has been a failure, then that also reflects on Bruce Allen's inability to hire the right guy for the job. It's been one big cluster under Allen, and that's the first place I look at if I'm Dan Snyder.