{"id":1291,"date":"2025-12-17T17:53:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twoolddolfans.com\/?p=1291"},"modified":"2025-12-17T17:53:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:53:16","slug":"wont-get-fooled-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twoolddolfans.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/17\/wont-get-fooled-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Won\u2019t Get Fooled Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes&#8230; that Who song from the seventies was going through Scott&#8217;s head as Alex sat down this morning to record our new episode. We both feel this loss was the death knell for McDaniel, and it&#8217;s way past time. Why? Listen and we&#8217;ll regurgitate a few things we&#8217;ve said all along, as well as use other teams as examples to follow. In terms of building a winning franchise, a company of excellence, Stephen Ross has been an abject failure &#8211; but what can we do? Try again and hope better choices are made. Let&#8217;s lay it out again in clear simple language, &#8220;this&#8221; is what we need to attract a GM from a winning tree. &#8220;This&#8221; should be featured on his resume. &#8220;This&#8221; is what should be done about McDaniel. They get into the Monday night embarrassment. What will happen when we play the Bengals this Sunday. Around the NFL, One Cool Thing &#8211; it&#8217;s all here. Join us.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6475\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1291-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/two_old_dolfans\/content.blubrry.com\/two_old_dolfans\/Pittsburgh_debacle_2025_.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/two_old_dolfans\/content.blubrry.com\/two_old_dolfans\/Pittsburgh_debacle_2025_.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/two_old_dolfans\/content.blubrry.com\/two_old_dolfans\/Pittsburgh_debacle_2025_.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/two_old_dolfans\/content.blubrry.com\/two_old_dolfans\/Pittsburgh_debacle_2025_.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/twoolddolfans.com\/?powerpress_pinw=1291-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/two_old_dolfans\/content.blubrry.com\/two_old_dolfans\/Pittsburgh_debacle_2025_.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Pittsburgh_debacle_2025_.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/twoolddolfans.com\/index.php\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes&#8230; that Who song from the seventies was going through Scott&#8217;s head as Alex sat down this morning to record our new episode. We both feel this loss was the death knell for McDaniel, and it&#8217;s way past time. Why? Listen and we&#8217;ll regurgitate a few things we&#8217;ve said all along, as well as use other teams as examples to follow. In terms of building a winning franchise, a company of excellence, Stephen Ross has been an abject failure &#8211; but what can we do? Try again and hope better choices are made. Let&#8217;s lay it out again in clear simple language, &#8220;this&#8221; is what we need to attract a GM from a winning tree. &#8220;This&#8221; should be featured on his resume. &#8220;This&#8221; is what should be done about McDaniel. They get into the Monday night embarrassment a little. What will happen when we play the Bengals this Sunday. Around the NFL, One Cool Thing &#8211; it&#8217;s all here. 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