Off Topic: Has anyone seen the other board

[juraitwaluzka]

It's simple really. It's everyone's choice how they want to be a fan. One choice is to look at the big picture:

Most recent 4 years:
43-21 (0.672), 3 playoff trips

Previous 4 years
30-34 (0.469), 1 playoff trip

It's clear to me which is better and that we are trending up. We are finally a team that has gotten ourselves into the mix. Have we shit the bed in the playoffs? Absolutely. Do we need to improve? Obviously. Are we accepting mediocrity? Hardly, it looks like we are going to be replacing both coordinators, I mean this is as far as you can go because any talk about getting rid of Smith and/or Ryan at this point is A) delusional and B) just plain fucking stupid. Hell, this is EXACTLY what people have been asking for! Personally I feel pretty good about it. I'm not going foam at the mouth and vomit all over myself because the team didn't give me the outcome I wanted on Sunday. It sucked, we lost and looked like complete jackasses doing it and now it's the off season. I can look to the future or wallow in the past.

To be honest, if the previous four years are something that is going to cause you any amount of distress perhaps it is time to consider that you just don't have the stomach to be a Falcons fan, it's not for everyone.

Another approach would be to throw a tantrum because Matt Ryan sucks and he always will and he never gives me the wins I want and I'm so smart that I can predict that he will suck no matter what system he is in even though there is plenty of evidence of NFL quartbacks thriving in a new system, and even though there is no way in hell that he is going anywhere, and teams throughout sports sometimes taking half a decade to break through, rendering my impassioned complaints into a sea of futility.