Quote:How important is winning right now ?


On one hand we know that this is a young, inexperienced team, in the middle of a rebuilding process and handicapped by injuries. And we knew that the Eagles are a very good team. We all know that Bortles is our best quarterback, but he is being kept out of the team, to make him a better player. So maybe we should accept that this is going to be a season of struggle and that we shouldn't expect a massive improvement straight away. Maybe this season doesn't matter, because we're not going to be good enough to make the playoffs.


Or maybe we've waited long enough for success, we've had to put up with a lot of bad football and disastrous seasons, so now it's time to start winning. It's about pride. We've got some stars now - time they proved it. And it's important to build a winning mentality. We want a team playing with confidence, which knows how to get results because it's used to winning. If we can't achieve that, then we'll continue to fail.


I fall, reluctantly, in the first camp, but what about you ?

 

First camp as well - although I do believe the season matters. I think the Eagles game is a pretty good microcosm for the season, at times we will look like Half 1 and others like Half 2. I'd like to see us start looking like the former for whole games against some of the weaker teams and hang around some of the harder teams.

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