Strangely enough, I'm not as upset as I thought I'd be that we've just missed the playoffs in spectacular fashion. In fact, I'm not even sure if I'm upset at all...

That was a bad performance by a team that had no business being in the playoffs. If we play like that in a December regular season game, then I wouldn't want to see what we do in the playoffs.

Having said that....

....I still believe Phillips and Garrett should stay. Coaching turnover and new systems aren't the answer. Some think Phillips is too soft and doesn't motivate the players. Even if that's true...so what? If I were an NFL player making several million dollars a year to play a damn game, I wouldn't need a middle-aged man yelling in my face to motivate me. The chance to get to hoist the Lombardi Trophy and be immortalized in history would be enough for me. And it should be enough for the players.

And maybe it is enough.  Everytime they lose, we immediately assume they "didn't want it enough", that "they didn't care". It's easy to forget that there's another team on the football field that has something to play for.....and sometimes that team is just flat-out better than ours. It's easy to simply say the players are completely worthless (were they worthless when they thumped the Super Bowl Champion Giants a couple of weeks ago?), and forget that McNabb + Reid had a damn good run earlier this decade, so chances are they know how to win games like this.

I don't know, I just can't summon the strength to get angry/curse/cry/throw things. I love this team, but they lost. No matter what I do or say, that's the reality and there's no changing it. I still have to get up at 6am tomorrow to go to work. It's just a game.