I am so sick and tired of people implying that Ralph needs to be "woken up"; implying because of his age he is out of touch with his franchise, the modern NFL, his fan base, the community, or the locker room. We dont have some half-crazy Al Davis-like owner with a history of awful and self-contradictory behavior:
Would someone who was "asleep at the wheel" say his roster had no talent and then praise "consistency"? NO!
Would he let his daughter enrage the best GM we ever had, a man who built a roster of Hall of Famers and then let the guy go to Carolina and build a playoff team in their first years and then go to Indy and do it all again? Would someone out of touch do that? NO!
Would he hire someone as GM for 5 years, let him torch the franchise, alienate the fans, make terrible decisions based on power and paranoia, get fired and not sniff another job in the NFL in years, even on TV? NO!
Would someone out of touch then bring in Marv Levy to be a GM even though the man had no experience at it and didn't want to do it in the first place? No?
Would he promote people into a nebulous, ill-defined Inner Circle of rotating ineptitude and shoulder-shrugging? n...
Ya know, hold on a second...