You know what? I think I'll vent one more time just because I can't fucking sleep and I'm feeling rather mean. Warning: this is going to be fairly long and not for kids.
I honestly don't get this fucking coaching staff. I feel betrayed by them right now. They keep doing the same fucking things, keep making the same fucking mistakes, keep repeating history when they say that they won't. Right now, I don't know what to think about them. Quixote, X, and bluecoconuts have convinced me that Fisher deserves at least one year. If Spags and Linehan got three years, Fisher should get the same treatment. But his coordinators should be gone immediately if things don't turn around.
Finnegan, I know you're a nice guy, but you're going to have to go after this year. Langford, Wells, Dahl, Williams, Shelley Smith, Pead (seriously, Pead, you fucking screwed us tonight by getting yourself in trouble with Fisher), Saffold, Witherspoon, Giordano, and Stewart should also be gone/not resigned after this year. I mean, my fucking fate, with McDonald's injury, we're going to have to go with Giordano/Stewart and McLeod for an entire year. McLeod's a good special teams player, but I don't ever want to see him start another game. I can't believe Giordano made the team over Cody Davis when the former didn't play one fucking game in the preseason.
I'm fucking sick of seeing us sign stopgaps for "veteran leadership". Look at a team like the Ravens. Look at the Bengals, at the Broncos, at the Packers, at the Falcons; for fuck's sake, look at the fucking Whiners and the fucking Seahags even. What do all of those teams have in common? They rarely, if ever, use veterans as stopgaps. They draft well, they promote from within, they make smart acquisitions, and when they do spend money, it's to lock up core players, not to sign expensive free agents who rarely make an impact throughout their entire contract. This is why I'm in favor of trading down with both of our picks and trading into next year's draft.
And that brings me to my next point. I honestly think that they should trade Sam Bradford to the highest bidder - and it's not because he's bad. I just don't get the feeling that he's ever going to succeed here. Not with this over-hyped coaching staff (look at fucking Joe Philbin in Miami and what he's done with less). Not with underachieving receivers (seriously, when Austin Pettis leads your team in catches and yards, you know that your entire receiving core needs serious work. Givens, Quick, Kendricks, Austin, and Cook were just about invisible today). Not with this pathetic offensive line (seriously, a terrible Chris Williams? An aging Wells and Dahl? An offensive tackle who just can't stay healthy in Long as well as mediocre career backup offensive tackles starting? Fucking lawl.)
So trade him. Get the best offer you can for him. I'm fucking sick and tired of seeing this kid's talents get wasted on this team, and this is coming from a die-hard Mizzou fan whose team kept getting shredded by Bradford when he was in college. Seriously, he has way too much talent to continuously be put in a position to fail. He may bounce back, he may not...but if he does, it won't be with us. If I'm Sam Bradford, I'd be asking if the team would trade me so that my career isn't ruined further. Seriously, I'm not fucking kidding about this. Peyton fucking Manning couldn't have succeeded with the hand that Bradford was dealt.
If this post makes no sense whatsoever, it's because it's late at night, I'm utterly depressed, and because I want to fucking vent about this. And I apologize profusely if it offends any of you or if it's too negative. I'm just so damned sick of seeing Bradford get killed like this, and I honestly feel that the guy needs a fresh start if he's ever going to succeed.
And now - and I'm sorry if this isn't welcome at the time - I'm going to be making a mock draft with a potential Bradford trade because that's about the only thing I have to look forward to right now. FML. F - M - L.