Despite where we are as a franchise, how we’re showing up in the win loss column, and the fans belief that we have horrible management, dude still wants to be here. Even had MT out here saying “who dat”. That means something right? If our organization was terrible, players would be kicking down the door to leave wouldn’t they? Granted no ones kicking down the door to come, and yet we’re not the dumpster fire organization some of us feel we are.
- Dumpster fires do dumpster fire things. Like firing a coach mid-season while the QB is left to defend if he had something to do w/ it or not.
- Dumpster fires are left answering question on how they feel about their benched #1 Draft pick from a year ago, in the wake of Andy Dalton throwing two picks en route to a 40-7 thrashing by Washington
- Dumpster fires sign a QB coming off an achilles to a signficant contract, and then draft 25 year old QB in round 1 to "develop" w/ out talking to the presumed starter.
We’re not those teams, not those organizations. We’ve won more games than them over the last two decades. We’re just in a rough spot and it’s not because of how they managed the salary cap or aging players or trades or any of the other hooplah we argue about on this forum. Their #1 blemish on how they did business during their run, was not securing a successor for Drew. The Patriots fumbled the ball too and are losing just like us, WITH a cleaner cap might I add. Meanwhile he Packers set up a smooth transition from Rogers, and the Chiefs aggressively got their successor to Alex Smith in 2017. Hell, arguably our biggest whiff during that time was knowing that we wanted Mahomes that year, and not having the tonka trucks to potentially anger our future HOF QB by trading up to snag the guy we truly wanted.
Now we're in a rut because of it. Or not a rut, but a scenario where the team has to elevate the QB (injuries crumbled) and not the QB elevating the team. Good QBs mask all types of organizational deficiencies. Still, we’re not a bad organization, and Alvin's committment proves it. However, in his interview he stopped short of saying we have the right coaches and I think the organization should stop short of retaining Allen if there’s a total collapse even after the return of healthy players.
Otherwise..keep chopping wood.