If, in your opinion, poop was going to taste bad, but everyone around you was yelling it was going to taste great would you have the highest of expectations about how it was going to taste? No, because you believed it was going to taste bad. Unless, that is, you were effectively convinced that those that were yelling were right.
But that didn’t happen with you. You were never convinced drafting him was a good idea. So in reality your actual expectations never changed because those praising him didn’t convince you. So it makes no sense that you possess these alleged expectations. I honestly believe you make this claim to keep the offseason argument going. To what end I have no idea.
All in all, I felt that if this was our direction, it had to be great. I'm not sure what else you can expect here. Outright saying I thought Kyler would be
bad isn't really accurate, just not the kind of elite player you see in other #1 QBs.
jesus... you make the above sound like a GOOD thing. i mean... we'd have a completely overrated QB who would be choking our cap and an awful HC who together can continually keep up a 5-6 win team. Yay?
dude, I've never said this to ANYONE on this board, but if you really hate everything this team has done this off-season and see such little light at the end of the tunnel this year, don't you have better things to do than to make yourself miserable every Sunday? You've already stated before that the little things and watching a team grow don't make you happy and that the ONLY thing that does is Ws. Well, guess what... there ain't gonna be a lot of Ws this year. It's a growing pains year. If you can't deal with the pains that come from growth, why bother this year?
again, this is not me telling you to leave... it's asking why you put yourself through this this year? Even in terrible years, no matter how bad I thought the team was, I still had fun every football season because I'm usually either with Ouchie and Dave or getting smashed with my Raider friends in loser solidarity sundays. But you're literally getting no joy out of anything but a W. They ain't coming in droves this year and if that's the only way you can't be miserable (as you previously stated), why put yourself through the pain?
Obviously, keeping Wilks would not be a good thing. The really rocky part of where my perspective here starts is keeping Keim after firing our head coach, after some readily apparent faltering, and a really terrible offseason both personally and professionally.
I'm a Cards fan to my core. This is the first time ever that I haven't been an overwhelming optimist. I feel like we have differing opinions (not just you and I, but myself and others on the board), of what really is successful when it comes to "the little things."
Maybe "only Ws" is an exaggeration on my part, but the periods where we've been competitive (against good teams) have been few and far between, from my lens. I can get excited about the team/our QB pushing the ball in between the 20s, but I see us slipping in other places, and being unable to actually put up points.
I feel we're floundering and not making real progress with a clear objective, others clearly don't agree.
I have fun with football as a whole. I have 7 fantasy teams, I spend time with friends and family for every game. But man, I just want to rip off the bandaid and get to a true rebuild.
There's fun to be had here talking about the games, and I was amped to watch live against the Lions when we had a great 4th quarter, and super happy to see us seemingly be dominant against the Bengals for a bit, until that fell apart too.
There's a chance we learn and grow, but I still feel that everyone fed me a narrative in the offseason that this was going to be revolutionary and vault us back into competition at the very least, but I don't see it. We're still really bad, with poor talent, questionable coaching, and a QB who is trying his best while helping my fantasy teams.
I just don't agree with the direction until we get things going. There's a lot of season left to make me feel different... but geez, I'd just love to win or make it close against a good team, without our coach passively admitting/joking about not drawing up running plays very well or touching the defense at all.
