Perspective: A Few Things We Know

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Originally Posted by mheisig

Very well put, 12th.

All this crap flying around about who's a fan and who isn't, who's an optimist and who isn't is really starting to piss me off, to be quite honest.

I'm completely with 12th - that's exactly how I feel about this team. We look SO damn good on paper and we ARE performing and we ARE "in the hunt."

That doesn't make a lost feel any better, in fact it makes it feel worse. I can't find one good reason we lost to the Eagles - it just doesn't make any sense to me. I'm not calling for Gibbs head, I'm not calling for Snyder to move to Argentina, I'm just a fan who lives and dies every Sunday by whether my team wins or not.

Losses suck, losses like the one to the Eagles REALLY suck. I'm pissed off and my hopes for the season took a dive. I'm cautiously optimistic about Dallas for the only reason that when it comes to Dallas the records and stats don't seem to matter.

All this mudslinging about who's a pessimist, who's not, who's drinking kool-aid and so on is just ridiculous. I'm as equally sick of the people who have nothing to do but complain no matter what happens as I am with the idiots who have their head stuck in the sand and think we're one first down from being better than the Patriots.

We're a good team. We're in the playoff hunt. We're above .500. The injuries have been absolutely brutal, which makes our current position all the more incredible. We've got a lot of talent and a lot to build with.

We also do some inexplicably stupid stuff sometimes. The clock management is bewildering on occasion, the penalties and turnovers are frustrating to say the least.

Why can't we all just approach this as it is? A good team that's got it's problems but is still in the playoff hunt? Point out the good things, point out the bad things - that's the way it should be.

The mudslinging and namecalling shouting about who's a fan and who's not and requests for people to be shot really need to come to an end or this entire forum is going to be a miserable place to hang out.

very good post. I have been a diehard for all of my 33 years. My Sundays are sacred, I live eat breath redskin football. Every year I get caught up in "we are going to be great hype!" and seems like every year we are in the same position of frustrating losses. I am one fan that gets tired of hearing the cool aid crap. I am a fan that wants to see improvement from year to year (i gave up on the week to week stuff!) Some may call me a negative pessimist fan, oh well. Facts are hard evidence this team has not improved since Joe has been here. We have had two losing seasons (horrible losing seasons!) and one season where we had to win 5 straight (against a light schedule) to make the playoffs. And here we are in the middle of the pack again, having to basically win all most all of the remaining games to get a shot at the wild card. We may have a bright future with some of the young talent we have here, and I do believe we have some very good young talent. But, we are not a rebuilding type franchise. we are built to win every year, and when the same type of losses mount up year after year its very frustrating and hard to see the brighter side of things. I go into every sunday thinking this is the week we bust out and show what we can do, but all most every sunday we show what kind of team we are. Good enough to hand around and lose in the final minutes. I dont know if Joe leaving is the best thing after this season or not, I could go either way right now. I respect Joe so much I want to see him win, but the NFL is so different now, that I am not sure his mentality fits todays NFL. Call me what you will, but I just want a winner, a team that competes week in and week out, year in and year out.

on that note, i hope we whip the cowboys ass Sunday. If not, bring some pain to TO and Romo. Go after Romo's ass until he see's Burgandy and Gold in his sleep.