The loss bothered me, but it was expected. The reason I do not give a flying duck about this team is their complete indifference to what's happening. They have no emotional investment in the games, then why should I? There is no anger, no chirping, no competing during the games. The way they have rolled over made me give up on this team. Shame on them for turning most passionate fan base into people that do not care anymore.
I think this is especially apparent to those of us who have a larger frame of reference with this team and have been watching for a very long time. It's easy to say "Well, the game has changed, the times have changed" - but we aren't idiots. We see that, we know that. There isn't the same thuggery all over the place that there used to be, so there aren't the opportunities to go apeshit on someone to "fire up" a stagnant team. And for the most part, that's for the best.
But other teams are finding ways, reacting to things with spirit in different ways. We aren't. It couldn't be more obvious. There's no way to know whether the players care or not, so I think that complaint is completely facile (though I do understand why people say it in the heat of the GDT). And I couldn't care less about assigning blame - any one of us would be beaten down by the dreck and nonsense these guys have had to endure the past six years. I just don't think this group, as constituted, can rebound from that. I don't think there's any chance of it.
Unfortunately, I also don't think this milquetoast ass clown in charge of fixing it is in any way capable of doing so. I'm extremely confident that he's not.
