In the last post, I mentioned the talk of rebuilding when I glossed over the Kansas City-Atlanta game. Now, after thinking about that game and the situations that other rebuilding teams are in, I tend to hear the word "win now" being thrown around whenever veteran teams that appear to be heading into the opposite direction are mentioned. If there's one phrase that I hate that's associated wth football, and sports in general, it's "win now." Yeah, I'd like to think the Miami Dolphins, in the midst of a 1-15 season, thought to themselves, "this is great practice--let's try to win next season." Of course they're trying to win now--that's their job! They wouldn't receive mega bucks (no, not the dastardly WWF tag team) to underperform and save that energy for a "win-now" season if owners didn't expect them to produce instantaneously. I understand the term is supposed to define teams that are more suited to win more in the future than in the present, but I think it's absolutely ridiculous to throw around such a silly label to teams--as a matter a fact, any team!--when every franchsie is trying to come away with a victory. As that idiot Herm Edwards said, "You play to win the game!"
Sorry, had to get that off my chest.
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