Progress can be measured in more ways than your won and loss record. I don't think that the coaching staff has any illusions. This team is making real progress. If you are pulling against the Redskins, you are no longer a Redskins fan, so I hope you don't do that.
However, we have to make the decisions about who is going to play and who is going to stay based on performance and fair competition at every position. No way in my view should we give "Nervous Pat"
a free ticket to ride, for example.
Players play best when they know that getting the job is based on who plays best, not on who gets paid best, or who is most popular or who is there when you get tired of uncertainty at a position.
It takes time to restore a franchise that had been so off course for so long. By the time Joe Gibbs found the Redskins again, we were without a compass and lost in the south seas. It takes awhile to get the ship back to Super Bowl winning waters.
12-13-2004, 02:02 PM
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