Tom Shad covers the Washington Commanders for the Washington Post, joined it right before the season

started. He's been in the market before. He worked for the Times many years ago. You can cover,

you can cover, or you can follow Tom on X on Twitter at Tom underscore Shad, S-C-H-A-D. You wrote after the Detroit game, interviewing some fans that had walked out of

the stadium after they took an absolute beating against the Lions. You said, you know, a lot of the

reaction has all led to, quote, a sense of emotional whiplash for commanders fans. Some are still

riding the high of last season in the hope of a new regime led by principal owner Josh Harris,

GM Adam Peters, and coach Dan Quinn. But for others, the fuzzy feelings are gone. Criticism of

Peters and Quinn is fair in their eyes, if not warranted, and a familiar sense

of resignation has returned. So I'm going to ask you the question we asked callers yesterday

for about an hour plus, and that is, during this three and eight lost season, what's the

craziest most insane sort of fan

or media member or whatever reaction to this season that you've heard?

Hmm.

Let me, let me, there have been quite a few.

Okay, yeah, so go ahead and listen.

Well, I mean, I think the, a lot of the turning the page on some of the stuff that went

so well last year, and that's kind of the whiplash of it for me. And I mean, I'm kind of coming at it from maybe a slightly different perspective, having just jumped on the beat here this year.

But I've dipped my toe in like the commander's subreddit and the number of people that are not only questioning Adam Peters or Quinn, but are calling for like wholesale changes

has been striking to me, particularly just because you look at where they were nine months

ago or whatever, you know, in the NFC championship game. And then you look at even when I started

three months ago, you know, there were fans who were saying

this was a Super Bowl team. So it's just, it's, that's kind of the whiplash, I guess, that I was, that I was hinting at. And I heard some of that and talking to fans. But, um, yeah, some of that kind of just, let's, let's blow it up and start over stuff has, hasored me a little bit yeah so it's floored you

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