There's a new Coach in his first year in Washington.
You might get the impression development and obligatory losing is the order of the day. Given recent history.
That's not the way it was. We did it differently back in the day.
In 1969.
And in 1971.
So you can go elsewhere with "development".
Here it is Old School. We play to win.
Listening to a trusted ex-Redskin on the radio this morning, a cloud descended upon my person.
I had been thinking WWGAD? What would George Allen do? With these Washington Commanders?
I was thinking he'd start Jacoby Brissett. Start the Vet QB. Steady as she goes. Trade Sam Howell for draft picks plural. Trade the Number Two for some offensive line help. Sign some vets on defense.
I know damn well, George Allen would say, we'll have a championship team next year.
But then I listened to that podcast and I admit I was triggered. Maybe the Commanders did tank last year. Lost on purpose! At the behest of the new owner.
When you think about it, it makes a certain amount of sense.
It's a certain NBA-style spin on things. They tank unabashedly in the NBA. Josh Harris, new owner of the Commanders, is an NBA Owner. One of his advisors is a former Top NBA Executive. And Harris, backed up by a local sports punditry that has never known what a winning football team looks like, has stated he hopes the fans will be patient. With all the losing he's going to do, I assume.
His on purpose losing. As the Pro Football Focus people have noted in support of Harris's obligatory losing philosophy, it is going to take many years for the pathetic, woe-begone Washington Commanders to build a winning team.
So we're looking at the Washington Wizards 2.0 as well as Ron Rivera 2.0 is that it?
There's something breathtakingly fraudulent about obligatory losing. It was suspicious last year when Jacoby Brissett was benched AFTER BEING NAMED THE STARTER. The only way to win a ballgame deliberately sabotaged.
That's a conspiracy theory, shout the loser commentariat! Yeah, Dudes, and if my grandmother had wheels she'd be a wagon.
You guys lose. You talk all the time about losing. You predict nothing but losing. You want the team to lose. You want the fans to lose. You must be making a killing off losing. Otherwise, you wouldn't pray to it so much.
The Number 2 pick Harris's obligatory losing WON will undoubtedly NOT produce a winning result. Harris is playing with fire here. Assuming the fans will be patient.
Not this fan. This isn't the NBA. Tanking manufactures losers en masse. Losing is a filthy habit and I doubt Washington has kicked it because they've kicked it a thousand times. Plus, there is no Kareem waiting in the Draft. Most QBs fail miserably in the NFL.
You're saying one of these three is a generational talent?
The odds are against it. I'd sign a veteran QB the first chance you get. A veteran QB, ANY VETERAN QB, is far and away better than the rookie you are planning on starting.
George Allen said let the rookie QB do all his losing starting for somebody else. Let somebody else lose on purpose.
As the aforementioned Redskin Great himself implied, how can we take Harris seriously when he or his coaching staff says they're going to win? When they lost deliberately? How do you know when to start winning?
You've already overdrawn your account, Mr. Harris. YOU are 4-13. You don't get any more 4-13s. You are lucky you got away with the first one.
Maybe there are young guys out there willing to put up with more of this losing crap. A.K.A., development hell. More power to them. Hopefully, they win something before all our young guys give up their ghosts.
Not me. I got one foot in the grave already. I need to cherish the Super Bowl Memories I do have. Not let this religious losing erase them.
Shove your development hell, Mr. Harris. You make Lombardi turn in his grave. I can see the Old Man now. You mean you don't play to win?!?!
I'm too old for this S$%#)*!
It looks like the Washington Commanders will have to wait post-Conference Championship Games to hire a Head Coach.
There are more pressing issues. Such as the presence of 10-foot Alien Beings in Miami, Florida. Militias are being organized against the Alien A*@holes. Joe Biden plans to lead the troops. There is a run on rayguns and bobbleheads in Dolphin City.
If that is not enough levity for you, RGIII and Jay Gruden got into a bout of pro wrastlin'. I mean, if you have to choose between the two, I'd choose RGIII.
It is not even close.
Jay Gruden never ran the football. He prefered his Quarterbacks to be drop back pocket imprisoned pretty boys who threw swing passes and fades and there was never any running game to keep the wolves off their backs. He apparently was brought in to fix RGIII's passing game. Doesn't look like he gave much of a pigskin, to be honest with you.
Gruden was going against trend though. RGIII initiated the Era we are now in in the NFL. The Mannings and Bradys, the sweethearts of Jay Gruden's Old Timey sensibilities, are gone. Mahomes, Jackson, Stroud, Allen. They are all runners.
Gruden's guy, Kirk Cousins, who ran like a plucked chicken, threw picks in the end zone. He threw from structure. Into demolition.
And it seems to me the knock on the NFL at the time was its pocket passing self-adoration was putting a pay wall up against almost all of the available College Quarterbacks. Its stifling stereotypes about QBs are still depriving it of winning performances at the position.
The Shanahans saw an opportunity in the running QB and they took it. Unfortunately, they broke Robert Griffin and Gruden didn't want their leftovers. Jay Gruden didn't want to teach anybody who didn't already know pocket passing. It insulted his intelligence.
Must have been too much work.
The fact remains RGIII's year was the Shanahans' best year in Washington. They smelled every other year. And that one year of good Shanahan was three times better than Gruden's best year.
Jay Gruden fundamentally misuderstands what a complete offense entails. He can analyze a passing game for you. But he wouldn't know a dive play from a bigfoot sighting.
And even on Jay Gruden's best days calling plays Washington usually lost. And they lost more often than not because he would rather have each particularly tooth screwed out with a lug wrench than run the football.
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