Quote:You know damn well that the vast majority of the people weren't expecting 16-0, or 10-6, or even 8-8.

 

Most people expected an improvement over last year.

Most people expected something like 4-6 wins this year.

 

Starting 1-10 in the fashion that we did makes people angry.  They (we) don't lack "perspective".... 

 

There may be a handful of trolls, but those should be ignored anyway.

There are legitimate reasons to question the coaching staff and the direction this franchise is going.  People disagreeing don't lack perspective, they just have different opinions than you.

 

While I'm actually inclined to agree with you, in an attempt to be pragmatic, go back and look at the records of the teams that we've played to date. Outside of Washington, Tennessee and now New York, I am pretty sure the remaining 8 teams have winning records and are in the thick of the playoff hunt. We all knew this was not a playoff worthy team outside of some 1996-esque miracle where these kids just came out and played like they had absolutely nothing to lose...which obviously did not happen.

 

Bright spots or not, we are a bad team. We have played an inordinate amount of "good teams" (i.e. teams with more wins than losses). Whether we should have won certain games or not (i.e. Philadelphia, for example, before the wheels fell off), it does not negate the fact that we are still a bad team and have played more than our fair share of "good" teams.

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