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I tried. I tried as this offseason progressed to take the medium optimistic approach. Nothing wild, just give Fisher and his staff the benefit of the doubt. Make a case for myself and others that they can be better this year.
And I just can't believe it myself anymore and certainly don't feel like convincing anyone else.
You've just pointed out some serious futility, max.
Does anyone else see a possible connection between the way JF refused to bring in competing QB talent for so long, and the way he refused to bring in an experienced OC to challenge their current offensive approach?
Sunday's win was a triumph of defensive will against an arch rival. But even in a win, the offense continued to extend it's streak of pathetic ineptitude.
Yeah, I think Gurley is frustrated. And it's stifling his natural RB creativity.
I think Boras is at least as not ready as Goff is.
And I think Keenum is at his ceiling. He's a try hard, good guy, but he's just not an NFL starter, and maybe an emergency backup at best.
And it's crazy that Snead makes a statement like he did about making the playoffs the last two years if only Keenum was their QB. That's crazy talk.
Somewhere, somehow, this entire staff and GM have become unmoored from the rest of the NFL world's concept of offense.
Offensive strategy, offensive schemes, offensive variety, offensive personnel, offensive competence. Just. Not. There.
And they can't admit to themselves, that THEY are the problem. So they keep trying to cajole the players that they've stuck themselves with, and they keep trying to fend off the media, and they keep saying things like "we need to work harder", when they're just screwing it into the ground harder and harder.
How can Kroenke even consider rewarding this with an extension? How, I ask you?
A lot of that stuff is speculative and of course I don't agree with it. A lot of it is interpretation and I don't agree with that aspect of it either. Probably not any of it. It just sounds like the dark side after 1 1/2 frustrating games (because Seattle was not entirely frustrating). I don't agree with how the narrative is put together, I don't agree with any of the points being made. I can (and do) see entirely different ways of taking the entire thing.
Not fighting. Just reinforcing the fact that different people see all this differently.
One thing I will comment on:
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And I think Keenum is at his ceiling. He's a try hard, good guy, but he's just not an NFL starter, and maybe an emergency backup at best.
Well I don't think anyone has ever described him as starting caliber, but at the same time---we have seen his ceiling and it is higher than the SF game anyway. Maybe he regressed but I doubt that too. In fact I think he's getting back to his actual ceiling and Seattle wasn;t it yet.
Again not fighting. Not trying to talk you into anything. Not trying to win anything. Going back and forth on this in fact would just be tiring right now.
Again just offering a different view.
