Lighten up...

I belong to 3 Skins boards, and let me tell you have pissed I am at all the negativity. If you though Gibbs was going to turn things around in a "New York minute", your on crack. Sure, I thought they'd do better, but look it takes time. Like I posted on another board, Jimmy Johnson during his 1st year, they won 1-2 games, next year, bam, contender. Just lighten up, enjoy the rest of the season, as tough as it may be, and ROOT FOR THE SKINS!!

I Think The Negativity Is Stemming From Us Beating Ourselves. I Knew The Skins Were Not A Playoff Contender But I Was Sure We Would Eliminate Stupid Penalties And The Mental Mistakes. That Is Why I Am So Negative

I belong to 3 Skins boards, and let me tell you have pissed I am at all the negativity. If you though Gibbs was going to turn things around in a "New York minute", your on crack. Sure, I thought they'd do better, but look it takes time. Like I posted on another board, Jimmy Johnson during his 1st year, they won 1-2 games, next year, bam, contender. Just lighten up, enjoy the rest of the season, as tough as it may be, and ROOT FOR THE SKINS!!

the cowboys went 1-15 that year, beating only the redskins!

I like your frame of mind, i am constantly put down my friends for being the unrealistic,
over-optimisitic fan ... while i admit i can be a little unrealistic at times, i think a lot of my friends (who also are die hard skins fans) are actually pessimistic and not realists....

I belong to 3 Skins boards, and let me tell you have pissed I am at all the negativity. If you though Gibbs was going to turn things around in a "New York minute", your on crack. Sure, I thought they'd do better, but look it takes time. Like I posted on another board, Jimmy Johnson during his 1st year, they won 1-2 games, next year, bam, contender. Just lighten up, enjoy the rest of the season, as tough as it may be, and ROOT FOR THE SKINS!!I dont think ereryone is so negetive as they are disapointed with the performance of our offense. We as diehard skin fans know that their performance on the field is pathetic at best. We will play a team that has trouble stoping the run and we throw the ball. Then we play a team that has trouble stoping the pass and we run the ball. This is Gibbs first year back and we all know that. We know how great he was in the past adjusting at half time to come out in win games in the third and forth quarters. I think he will sit back and study film from this year and make the needed adustments for next year. That is another reason for all the disapointment we keep saying wait till next year. So go Gibbs and go skins.

For my part in the negativity, I am still 100% behind Joe Gibbs and his staff and that will never change. I have never typed a bad word about Joe Gibbs on this board. However, any negativity I have typed is directed entirely towards some of these players that i have had about enough of. Namely, Stone hands Coles & Gardner & the king of the 3 yard punt return Chad Morton. Those are really the only individual players I have gotten on more than once. I am so tired of them consistently coming up small. I firmly believe that much of our offenses troubles are conected to Coles & Gardner constantly dropping the ball. You simply can't get in rythim offensively when every other pass is dropped. Now I am not stupid enough to think this is the only problem our offense is having, but it is a significant one. We need a true #1 WR that we can count on!

I like your frame of mind, i am constantly put down my friends for being the unrealistic,
over-optimisitic fan ... while i admit i can be a little unrealistic at times, i think a lot of my friends (who also are die hard skins fans) are actually pessimistic and not realists....
just to add to your thought... until, that is, the skins go 14-2 or 15-1 then you see them everyday spouting Joe Gibbs is God dogma whilst wearing their Redskins beer drinking hat and sporting a Patrick Ramsey for MVP sweatshirt, "Taylor Jacobs runs like the wind" sweatpants, official Redskins colors Nikes signed by Clinton Portis, and "Fred Smoot has me covered" thermal socks. Fairweather fans suck more than the teams they support or fail to support. I still wear my skins T-shirts and sweatshirts and people make comments in public about them. I just tell them I've been a skins fan since their first super bowl appearance. I was 10 or 11 years old then and bet a friend $1 they would beat the dolphins. Losing a dollar didn't change my mind about them then and a losing season this year isn't going to change the way I feel about them either.

I'm with you, bro. I've been a 'Skins fan since I saw them go up against Denver in '88 (I was only five at the time). We're all disappointed with this year, but I didn't expect them to make the playoffs. Hopefully we can do better in these last few weeks; the upcoming game is a great opportunity for a turnaround.

I was 10 or 11 years old then and bet a friend $1 they would beat the dolphins. Losing a dollar didn't change my mind about them then and a losing season this year isn't going to change the way I feel about them either.

Hey you got cheated, because the Redskins beat the Dolphins in the Super Bowl! I'd be asking for that dollar! :biggthump


I know what you're saying though LongTimeSkinsFan. I thought it quite comical when I started seeing an increase of New England jerseys around town! I have proudly been a Skins fan since about 1980...when I was just old enough to understand football! I remember in first grade one of my best friends came in with this autographed picture of Danny White and I took one look at my friend and laughed at him!

I just dont nkow how to feel about our offense anymore. I live in Texas now and fight with Cowboys fans all the time. I can always stick up for our defense, but even if our offense was below avg I would have an arugment. If we can just start calling some good plays and get somethign going.

I want us to have a high draft choice, but I want us to finish strong more than anything so we have momentum going into next year.