Zero spin...facts. We are in fact in a playoff battle with the defending Super Bowl champs. Fact, our offense has played better all season than it has in a long time. Fact, our defense is getting more turnovers per game than a longtime and generally playing better.
Cherry picked facts are often used to spin.
But let's take a look...
We are in a playoff battle for the final spot with the defending Super Bowl champs
What does the Ravens being the "defending Super Bowl champs" have to do with us? We got beaten by the Ravens even though the Ravens are clearly not as good as they were a year ago.
in only a second year of an already inexperienced franchise QB.
The jury is very much still out on this claim, but that aside, you assign no blame or responsibility to Ireland for the years he was in charge in which we had no "franchise qb."
This year we will prob win two more games than last...
Five years to see a two game improvement. You're holding that up as a great accomplishment???
And we're not even sure about the two game improvement yet. The propensity for this team showing up flat for games might very well leave us only a one game improvement in five years.
...amidst a ridiculous media frenzy on something that nobody could have predicted.
A ridiculous media frenzy that could have been avoided had Ireland not signed Incognito with his long and established trail of dysfunction at every stop he's made in his football career. You say it couldn't have been predicted but the kind of bs he caused is the very reason Incognito was not even on the board for a lot of teams. It was absolutely predictable that Incognito would cause some kind of problem here; Ireland chose to ignore it.
Many of you say....blah blah, ten years of mediocrity. Well, perhaps that is frustrating. However, if its not clear to you that what this team is doing now is largely different than the past then I don't know what to tell you.
Getting beaten by the Bills at home after a bye week. Then getting beaten again by the Bills with possible playoff elimination on the line. And in both games, the Bills were playing their backup quarterback. That really doesn't sound "largely different than the past."
I do know that blowing up Ireland and potentially losing Philbin isn't the way to go.
And I'm just as sure that dumping Ireland would be of long term benefit to this team.
That will just perpetuate mediocrity.
Keeping Ireland perpetuates mediocrity. I have five years of evidence to back me up on that.
Ross knows this so don't hold your breath on anybody going anywhere.
I have no doubt that Ross will make yet another bad decision regarding this team.
We just had one awful game, get back from the ledge.
I'm on no ledge. I just don't fill my head with fairy-tale fantasies of the kind you've shared. We are what we are: a mediocre team led by a sub-par GM.
