re: This is a bad football team and a mediocre franchise.

That WAS a poorly run franchise for decades.

I expect excellence. What the FO and HC have done for the past five years in building the D cannot be called "excellence." I'll bet they agree.

Let's watch them fix it.

. . . and again, all of the name calling and bashing . . . it affects me not at all. I expect fans to react in that manner.

I'm simply being objective, critical and vocal in my expectations that NFL professionals produce excellence in all phases of the game ON A SUSTAINED AND CONTINUOUS BASIS.

EXCELLENCE is the standard. If there is failure to attain excellence, then understand why failure occurred, and take measures to correct the deficiencies so that EXCELLENCE can be attained.

But, make no mistake: anything less than Excellence requires improvement.

Excellence is the standard. Accept no substitutes.