Wish Upon a Star Hasn't Won Thus Far

Here we are again. Football limbo in Washington.

It is good we have a new owner in town. It is also apparent it was going to be bad for the football team. It threw things up in the air. There was nothing to hold onto.

Worse, lights went out with the players. There was no reason to "take coaching" from a lame duck staff. 

Now you are left wondering about a few things. If losing is something we all agree should stop in Washington, how can you play to lose for draft picks? It is like trying to stop drinking by pouring one bottle of vodka after another down your throat. Aren't you casting your losing in behavioral cement by keeping on doing it?

And I don't see how that makes things better for Josh Harris. It would be better if the team was "ready to win". If the team gets stripped to the core, how likely is it that it wins next year or the year after? We're perpetually "ready to lose". A lot of guys who want to be head coaches aren't going to like anybody on this roster. Including the Quarterback.

They get to a new place. They bring their own guys. 

Going 1-16 after going 4-13 is not going to please the Fanbase who once again are being asked to wish upon a star and face bipolar moodswings of dangerous proportions when Camelot does not return.

It would be better if they won a few games down the stretch. It would be better if the players played to win, healthwise, traditionwise, careerwise. Players who slack off have no business playing against players who give a crap. They get hurt. Winning is something where you create a tradition on every play. We live in a surveillance based authoritarian society where people are routinely pidgeonholed into repressive stereotypes and identities. If they catch you eating twinkies on a play, your career is over. 

They see everything you do. By they I mean future employers. If you have film showing you didn't make plays, how are your future bosses going to be able to trust you to make plays?

So I think our guys are going to have to fend for themselves. Build a tradition of playmaking for themselves. On an individual basis. The team objectives right now are so amorphous and ill-defined the players will be lost. Especially in the bozoism of lose now win later. That is a career threatening attitude, my brothers. You are pro ball players not clowns.

Take pride in yourself and your families. Take pride in your work. Make plays. The fans say to you be a clown for us so we can get somebody better than you in the draft--let it go in one ear and swiftly out the other. To my mind, there is a special place in Hades for that attitude. It is the primary reason we lose in Washington. The grass is always greener, they say, in five years.

Five years has come and gone four times over.

This team could benefit from a hefty dose of George Allen. 

In football, the Future is always NOW. 

What you do NOW creates your future. On every level of the Washington Commanders organization, NOW IS THE TIME to create the future.