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Right. If there is one thing I will say about Tepper it's that I am confident he truly wants to win and will outspend every owner in the league if that's what it takes. He just has to realize he has to hire people he trusts and completely stay out of their way. Will his ego let him do that? Will his desire to win force him to take a long look in the mirror and realize he simply has to change his approach? If this season doesn't do that, nothing will.

There is zero path to being a good team next season. But there are steps the team could take to lure me back in in terms of actually thinking the team could be on their way to winning again in the future. 1) Scott Fitterer in his current role has to go. It is difficult to overstate just how incredibly bad he has been as the GM of this team. 2) Synchronously bring in a head coach and GM. A pairing that has the same vision for building the team. A pairing that has a plan for bringing an identity back to our franchise and refuses to waiver from it. Just having a plan in place. 3) Make smart moves in FA. I think the pass catcher room is really where we could find upgrades this free agency. 4) It will be hard to have a bad draft because we need everything. But quit drafting RAS scores and draft players that fit your vision for the future of the franchise. Ideally we somehow find an LT and let Ikey compete for a guard spot. 5) We get messaging from the owner about what has gone wrong and how he plans to fix it (doubtful) There is a 0% chance we are making the playoffs next season. But we could at least have some sort of a blueprint we can believe in 12 months from now. Realistically that is what I am hoping for

It's annoying how this gets brought up every other day. This literally is not going to happen.

This will never happen Also after this season Fields value is way way higher than Burns

No. 1) There is no plausible city for a relocation. 2) Many speculate Richardson put a clause into the sale that specifies he can never move the team from the Carolinas. 3) The NFL would not let him.

Can we actually try building around one quarterback for the same quarterback just one time? Teddy got worse when he got here, Sam was already bad and stayed bad, and Bryce looks a shell of the prospect he was supposed to be, Baker is having a career year and going to take his team to the playoffs after leaving. We. Are. The. Problem. It’s an atrocious roster that no one would be performing well for. We have to stop acting like we’re only a quarterback away. We’re an everything away.

How hasn’t Evero adjusted to Engram yet?

They’re not gonna throw a pass further than 10 yards today. How isn’t this easy to adjust to

Think it’s totally reasonable to believe that part of KC’s offensive regression is due to the loss of Bieniemy, and he’s not the main problem in Washington, but he’d also be a pretty underwhelming HC hire. I want Johnson, Macdonald, or Anarumo.

Him and Ben Johnson are the guys. I'll be turning backflips with either of them

This could be pure propaganda but man some of yall are just acting miserable by jumping to conclusions and acting like this is bullshit and not true or whatever. Could it be bullshit? Sure! But it’s way more fun to believe that maybe he is taking a long look in the mirror and will start changing his approach. I could rant for days about Tepper, but he is still one of the newest owners in the NFL. Perhaps the learning curve has been steeper for him than he anticipated but he’s determined to get it right. Am I saying this is the case? Not at all but it’s nice to have some hope!

The good news is that all the openings aside, the candidate pool is really intriguing to me this year. I can talk myself into any of the following: -Ben Johnson -Lou Anarumo -Mike Macdonald -Frank Smith -Bobby Slowik -Jerod Mayo -Evero I would be pleased with any of these at surface level. But considering three of them are defensive-minded they may not even be on Tepper’s radar. I also don’t think we’re too good for a retread like Dan Quinn or Jim Schwartz. I just hope and pray the HC gets to bring in a GM they feel like they can work with.

Drop the Anarumo thread

This is the way. We are more or less building this roster from scratch. Let Derrick know he’s a cornerstone guy and put pen to paper this summer.

Great post. I'm as frustrated as anyone by how ALL of this has played out, but I'm also aware that he's the guy at least for next year so until we actually could have a path to bringing in someone else to play QB there's no point in cheering for anything but substantial improvement from #9. He may never be the guy you give that much to trade up for but he could still be someone we build the roster around for the foreseeable future.

Us not even giving Evero an interview only for him to land a job somewhere else and immediately get that team into the playoffs Year 1 feels like the natural next step for hilarious bad things to happen to this franchise.

1) Fire Scott Fitterer into fuging orbit. He's simply not a GM, he's awful and I'm furious he's still employed by this team. 2) I am not terribly concerned about who we hire as coach. Frank Smith, Lou Anarumo, Mike MacDonald, Slowik, Ben Johnson (obviously), Shane Waldron are all names that intrigue me at least slightly. 3) Let the coach bring in their own GM. Or vice versa. Either way - we need a front office that Is in synch. A pairing that has a clear, cohesive vision for taking the worst roster in the league and basically building it from the ground up. 4) Extend Derrick Brown. I'm ready to call him premier at his position/what he does. He has earned it. Sit him down and make sure he understands he is the leader of this defense. 5) Trade Brian Burns. I don't think he wants to be here and I don't want him here. Obviously we're not getting anything close to the Rams package. Maybe a day two and a day three. Send him on his way. We're starting from scratch and he is not a franchise player. 6) Sign/acquire two of Marquise Brown, Tyler Boyd, Curtis Samuel, Jerry Jeudy. Give our WR room some badly needed speed/athleticism. 7) Prioritize an LT in the draft. Move Ickey to LG. Roll with New LT/Ickey/Bozeman/Corbett/Moton with BC being able to fill in anywhere. Turn the OL into a strength again. 8. Find a bruising back in FA/draft. Try to get back to smash mouth ball next year. Legit simply things to the max for Bryce. Let running be your identity. Hopefully this gets the offense moving and he can start building some confidence. Doesn't have to be your long term identity, just a way to get things off the ground. 9) All the meanwhile focus on just adding talent to the roster. Don't have any reactionary moves where we are trading away capital. Instead, try to find ways to collect it. Continue building the roster to the original blueprint you had in mind. Find culture changers on both sides of the ball. It's the NFL, if you do things right it does not have to take long. Those that act like we are 5 years away are overreacting. Hire the right people and within 24 months you can be in the playoff picture.

I agree with everything you said. It's glaringly obvious this wasn't a good situation for a rookie, but it's also obvious that the player we drafted hasn't given us ANY reason to dream. Like there truly has not been one "wow" moment. Something we can hang our hats on to give us hope. Now the ones who act like we move on this offseason are simply delusional. It's why I don't feel bad about critiquing Bryce right now. He's going to be the starter next season. It's hilarious acting like we'd have any other option anyways. At least we know who is playing quarterback next year. Maybe now we can actually focus on building up the rest of the roster which we've totally shut out in our pursuits of finding "the" quarterback. There is some bad quarterbacking play this year. The good coaches are finding ways to win with players like Gardner Minshew and this version of Joe Flacco. We're I'm trying to go with this is is that if we can actually build a good roster it's feasible to believe the quarterback's play will improve and you can at least create a watchable product. If you have actually built a good team and then determine the quarterback can't get you over the top, then you can go all in like the Chiefs did when they moved on from Smith for Mahomes and like the Jets tried to do by trading for Rodgers. At least by knowing Bryce is QB next year we can direct our focus to adding talent to the roster because quite literally every positional group needs it.

We should not be trading any capital for anyone this offseason. You have to give Bryce at least one more year either way. If there isn't improvement next season we can start talking about other QB options then

The last bit is really all that's important here. Say what you want about Tepper I do truly believe he wants to win and has no issues spending whatever it takes to do so. The glaring issue is that he thinks his input is valuable/needed to build a winner and that could not be further from the truth. Has the level of disaster this season has reached been enough to make him realize that he doesn't have a fuging clue what he's talking about? Is his desire to win strong enough to make him look at himself in the mirror and realize he needs to change his approach? I'm skeptical, because he's a billionaire and these types always think they know all. Better question, is he willing to be patient to finally do a proper rebuild of this roster? Because there is not a short term fix for this. These are the questions facing our franchise right now. I'm preaching to the choir here, but if Tepper remains involved in football-related decisions I'm not sure we'll ever be real contenders as long as he is here.

Yeah, it's badly needed though. Part of the reason we are in this mess is because ever since Tepper got here he's refused to do a proper rebuild. When Rhule came in that was the year to really strip the roster down. The core like Cam, Luke, Olsen, TD had all moved on. We needed a clean, proper, patient rebuild then. But Tepper has continuously chased short term gains and it's one reason we're so low on proper draft capital/resources right now. Fitterer absolutely has got to go. We are literally starting on square one. I'm not lying when I say this isn't too far off from an expansion roster. We have to be patient and do this the right way without making any reactionary moves. I've used this example, but look at the Lions. When they traded Stafford they were more or less starting over. They had probably the worst roster in the league it was absolutely putrid. But they had a vision. In three years they found guys like Sewell, ARSB, LaPorta, Hutchinson, Campbell, Gibbs, etc. They've gone from a dumpster to 9-3 in basically three years. Because when Campbell got hired he had a vision for the team he wanted to build and he has not wavered. It doesn't have to take long. You can turn things around rapidly in this league. But for the love of God stop trading away draft capital. Accept you're starting on day one and hire a new HC + GM that understand they will be given a few seasons to get this thing going in the right direction. I agree with others though. Five wins would be a massive success next year, then maybe pushing for .500 in 2025.

I think we are too caught up in these labels sometimes. We simply need someone that has a clear identity for building up this entire roster from the ground up. A vision that you do not waver from. You want to build a tough, defensive minded team that plays mistake free football? Fine. You want to build the most dynamic, high flying offense in the league? Fine. But we've had too many different voices from too many different backgrounds as of late. We need a GM + HC that are on the same page for the type of team they want to build. Construct the roster accordingly. I at least agree that we don't need to be totally set on an offensive coach. Hire anyone that's interested and go with the person that will establish a culture.

I defended the Bryce trade but man… in hindsight Jalen Carter at 9 and just drafting one this year would have been nice…

Been very impressed by this Washington RB tonight. Puts his body on the line in the face of a blitz to protect his QB and runs so hard every play. If our new coach wants to install elements of a power running scheme again he would be perfect. Dillon Johnson

Preach. That’s why I’m talking myself more and more into a coach with a defensive background. Mayo, Anarumo, a real culture setter