Don't feel sorry for us...
....about one game.
Fell sorry for our hell, our reality:
"Borrowed" from Wash Times yesterday (Thank you!)
Turner does not badmouth Snyder despite the ugly circumstances that surrounded his firing — a dismissal that followed an impetuous overnight session at which defensive coordinator Ray Rhodes refused the job and several senior assistants threatened to quit if vice president Pepper Rogers were named interim coach
...and this...
It really came down to [the fact that] I wouldn't play [quarterback] Jeff George early in the season [per Snyder´s demand], and I felt Brad [Johnson] had the best chance to be the starter. That's the coach's decision."
...and this...
But Turner didn't want to sign George and said later that the issue was the defining moment in his bitter relationship with the owner. Johnson later — and gladly — left the Redskins via free agency and won the Super Bowl last season as the starting quarterback of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. George was released by the Redskins the next season after two games.
Pepper Rodgers as interim coach?
Insisting that George play?
SIGNING George in the first place?
And the contrast: (heisted from the Post)
King Cooke
Jim Hanifan, a Rams assistant who won a Super Bowl ring with the Washington Redskins as the team's line coach in 1991, has written a book about his 30 years in the NFL, including an anecdote about the first time he met late Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke.
"Before we got there, Joe Gibbs told me, 'don't be humble. The guy does not like humble people," Hanifan wrote. "Cooke was a short man, maybe about 5-6 or so, but he had his desk elevated and these little chairs for visitors in front of him so it looked as if he were towering over them. We shook hands and sat down and Cooke blurted out, 'Well, what are you going to bring to the table?'
"I was so intimidated, I forgot Joe's advice. 'I hope to . . . .' He interrupted. 'You hope to?' Cooke yelled. 'I don't need any hope. I just lost one of the best coaches I ever had [Joe Bugel]. And what the hell are you going to do?'
"I lost it. He made my Irish dander rise and I didn't care what happened. 'Forget I said that,' I said back to him. 'I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I'll do twice the job anybody else can do. That's what I'm going to do. You'll find out about it.' I think Joe Gibbs laughed all the way back to the office."
MESSAGE TO MR. SNYDER: If you're gonna...
...nevermind.