This Clip Of Ron Rivera Being An Awesome Coach And Better Person Makes Me Feel Optimistic About The Future In Washington*

Damn. That’s great. And it made me think for a bit- is every coach like this? Is this clip anything different than how every coach would treat this situation? And the more I thought about it the more I realized a lot of coaches wouldn’t react this way. You even heard how Devin Funchess told him that he didn’t go to the funeral because he wanted to be there working. That’s what football is. It’s a bit crazy. They put 100% into the game and Ron Rivera was able to humanize the situation and tell him that he understands. That’s the kind of leader we have on the Redskins now.

And look, I know this is now 3, maybe even 4 or 5 optimistic Redskins blogs in row, but I’m a credit where credit is due type of guy. I don’t hate for the sake of hating. I genuinely think the Skins are in the best position of any team in the NFC East and I genuinely like the changes to the coaching staff, including Scotty Turner.

There is always an * with this stuff though. Because if you have read any of my blogs for the last 6 years, you know I have a 0.0/1,000,000 level of trust for Dan Snyder. I don’t trust that midget pig weasel whatsoever. I understand more than anyone that this optimism won’t last. That he cannot sit back and let a good thing happen to the Redskins. Despite the overhaul of the front office, of the coaching staff, and of the training staff, I still need to see more out of Dan Snyder which means seeing none of Dan Snyder. I need to be fully, 100% convinced he is removing himself (and Bruce Allen and his other lackeys) from all football operations. Until then, I’m cautiously optimistic. I think the roster is rounding out nicely, I believe in Dwayne Haskins, and I believe in Ron Rivera at the helm.

But as always, it all starts at the top with Lil Dan Dan. His culture of losing has trickled down and systematically destroyed this franchise one piece at a time over the course of 2 decades. You can’t fix that over night. So while I’m excited about the future, there’s a big ol’ * just staring us right in the face, taunting us. I hope this is the time things change, but we’ll just have to wait and see if miracles do in fact happen. Cross your fingers, my friends.