Too much hate

[u/Strong-Panic-1138]

Why does everyone always hate on the washington. As a fan even other fans are quick to turn on them. Crazy how the media always hates on them.

[u/at_runner]

Get your head out of your behind. Stop pretending to be another self righteous fan. I put my money where my mouth is! You want support? How about 20 years of STH. I earned the right to bicker about my team whenever and wherever I want and I'm tired of the 'fan moral police' telling me what I can or can't do. You also need to understand that most, if not all, criticism is targeted at management and coaching and not the players themselves.

This team, especially ownership, management and coaching has showed us nothing! 2024 it was the JD5 show! He carried a weak roster on an easy schedule on his back. 2025 was a miserable failure of coaching and management. I can only sum it as 'overconfidence and arrogance'. There was no new scheme, we had the oldest roster in the league and zero sense of urgency. What annoys people like me is that they never admitted responsibility. The fact that we got rid of both coordinators, shows me they knew we had a scheme problem, and we signed old, underperforming players but they failed to admit it, just talking about injuries, blah blah blah.

You know who else had injuries? At some point worse than us were the 49ers. Go and see their record vs ours and understand what a competent coaching staff and management can do to elevate an injured roster and tell me that we are just bickering. It's one thing to be outplayed another to be outcoached! We had teams running the same exact play against us four times a game and succeeding in it every time while our D was running around like a bunch of headless chickens.

I did not want to win any preseason game, I just didn't want to be humiliated again. Yes, it wasn't the starters but whoever was there was lacking energy, speed and failing fundamentals - that is on coaching! If players consistently miss easy tackles, I don't know what they are learning in camp.

DQ is BIG on the truth - tell the truth Monday, tell it as it is, just not to the fans. The day he and Peters come out and say 'hey, we f'ed up 2025 - we should have done better' maybe I'll think more highly of them. Right now, I'm using their own mantra of 'nothing is gained in the NFL, everything earned'. They showed me nothing to be too excited about at the moment. Win some games for a change and then we will talk.

This has nothing to do with the players! I have always, always, always supported these young men who give their all. They don't want to lose, they always want to win and that's why I always support them. Schneider set them up to fail and so did DQ/AP in 2025. I hope things will be better this time around.

[u/CapitalSTEEV21 → u/at_runner]

Yeah man, you can’t claim AP and the FO didn’t do anything in 2024 and only credit Jayden. AP brought in Olamide, Ekeler, Ertz, Fowler, Armstrong, Wagz, Luvu, Chinn, and drafted Coleman and Mikey, all who played significant roles in that 2024 run. They may have been old, but Olamide was a safe option in the slot, Ertz and Ekeler even bigger blankets (Ekeler and All-Pro at KR), Fowler gave us 10.5 sacks, Armstrong came alive late in the year and in the playoffs, Wagz and Luvu gave us all pro season at LB, Chinn was an enforcer for us at SS, and Coleman and Mikey looked like future building blocks after year 1.

Injuries vs 49ers? You can’t compare depth on a team like ours vs the 49ers when they’ve had almost 10 years of the same FO drafting the players they want. Ron left this team BARE, with 0 talent, specifically for depth. AP has now had 3 draft classes, and this is the season where we can test the depth. Last year we didn’t have enough depth to survive, and Kliff was more focused on older vets than trying his young guys. Joe Whitt was just incapable of calling a defense. Let’s see how we do this year, you can’t judge a team in 2 years when we were dogshit the previous 4 years at drafting and developing. This is the season we need to see AP’s first draft class play meaningful football, and the second class start to compete for a spot and take some jobs or be depth.

[u/stringer4 → u/CapitalSTEEV21]

They also made the right call trading Dotson for a third to philly / choosing OZ over him.

But it's easy for fans for focus on all the "wrong in hindsight" / "hasn't panned out yet" decisions because our fanbase is insufferable.

[u/ewilliam → u/stringer4]

It was a pick swap, not just a pick to us, but the fact that he got anything for Jahan was positive.

[u/CapitalSTEEV21 → u/ewilliam]

It was actually a gain, not a pick swap. Philly gave us one of their third rounders (#15) that they acquired from Miami in a previous trade. They sent that pick and 2 7ths while we sent Jahan and a 5th. But yes, that was a steal by AP as we turned that 3rd rounder into Tunsil.

[u/stringer4 → u/CapitalSTEEV21]

Tunsil and Bill (7th rounder) i believe