I’ll keep my opinion short as I’m on mobile;
I was far too young to remember or care about the teams of the 80s and the success they had. This is the first time I think I’ve felt like things may actually be looking up, if only bc there isn’t much room to go down any further in regards to the overall lack of success in the past 25 years, with a few scattered exceptions. Having a young QB who appears, so far, to be worthy of building around, new ownership who (let’s be honest) couldn’t possibly be worse than Snyder and even seeing that they already brought on new Senior VP for analytics…it all,.if nothing else, is a breath of fresh air away from the status quo we’ve seen for over 2 decades now.
That’s my brain dump
Was about 6 years old when they last won it all. This is the first time I’ve been truly optimistic since the height of the Shanny era (RGThreesus) where it looked like Dan was finally stepping back and letting football people make the football decisions. that I’m optimistic. I really thought we would be stuck with that idiot running the team until I was 70.
It’s truly sad that the strongest memories of my fandom of this team over the last 30 years is a beloved player getting murdered, one rookie QB season, rare playoff wins and a Monday Night Football comeback against Dallas. That game was quite abysmal up until the ending too tbh.
But none of that matters now because it’s a new era and we have hope. And I just pray that the Belichik rumors are just bullshit, which I believe it is. I think Bill to the Raiders makes more sense, sounds like a very Davis thing. It doesn’t fit with how Josh has ran the Devils, which is in a modern image. I don’t watch NBA so I can’t comment on how the 76ers are ran though.
I was born in 88 but I don’t remember anything from 90-92. My memories really start around 96-97 so basically all I remember is losing. Other than the Lions and Browns I can’t think of a team with less success during the last 25 years. I feel like every year I look at the schedule and predict 7-9 (or 7-10 now). I am happy the Synder is gone, and I really look forward to next year. I am hoping we have good draft, get a new coaching staff and really start building something.
Grew up watching the 80s teams. First memory was the 81 Super Bowl. My parents had friends over to watch. When the reskins scored we went out front to blow an air horn my father had. My mom banged on a pot with a metal spoon. But get this… the neighbors were outside too screaming yelling banging on things. Everyone was watching. Next year when they lost to the raiders I cried lol. I was little, whatever. I’ve seen every iteration of shitshow since and this is the best I’ve felt since cousins was here. They have a new owner, and will have a new front office, coaching staff, cap space, draft choices and people who know wtf they’re doing calling the shots. If the owner calls the new Gm/staff and says draft Haskins, they laugh and hang up.
I watched the ‘92 Superbowl when I was about as old as my son is now. So, 8. I can’t believe I felt at the time that the Skins winning the SB was a fun, exciting, but somewhat normal conclusion to an NFL season. After 30 years of discovering what normal can be for a Skins fan, I’d say it’s cool to have some optimism. But losing still sucks and there’s no way that I’m ‘fine’ with this season. It suck’s and we stink. I feel bad for Jonathan Allen. We lost Montez Sweat. Terry’s talent is getting wasted. So yep, I can surely see that we have potential upside for next year. But the feeling of scrapping a year mid season and looking towards the next one while Cowboys fans are F’n fired up is annually familiar and also sucks balls.