Ahh, nothing like a good rant thread to make us all feel better!
Losing sucks. And losing to an NFC East team, at home, when we we're winning in the 4th sucks worse. And seeing McNabb hug the Walrus on the sideline was the worst of all. Nasty.
The skins are a team that causes great pain to its fans. The difference in feeling between winning and losing this game is gigantic, given everything else going on.
Here's what I think: no one is going to get fired during the year. No one. We're going to play out the season, and Gibbs himself, as well as his high-paid assistants, will have to seriously look in the mirror and do what's best for the team. I think we're not all that far from being good--close loses in games we've been winning, but for one. Injuries have hurt--that's not an excuse, but a fact. So in appraising things, it should be taken into consideration.
To me, the offense looked good this week, but for the goal line fiasco, and that's encouraging. The D is another story, but I do think the loss of Taylor and Rogers, as wel as Marcus, hurts.
Here's what I'd do if it were my team: keep the staff, if they want to stay, and strengthen the D in draft and FA. Try to get some o-line depth and another--hopefully bigger--WR. And proceed under the assumption that JC will continue to grow, and will be the future for this team. Given that, and an improved D, I think it will come. We can move the ball, and the coaches are getting more confidence in JC--in the no-huddle, JC called the plays. We MUST fix the red zone offense, but that can be done, IMO. I think the D is a few bodies short, especially on the line. We can't dominate the line of scrimmage late, and it shows.
I don't think the fire/tear-down approach will be more fruitful, though it sometimes works. But it sometimes does not, and (apologies to Daseal) our Spurrier experiment is an example of how it can go bad.