Offseason of change inevitable

The hardest part of losing in the playoffs was saying goodbye to his team. Coach Ron Rivera knows change is inevitable and the Washington Football Team is about to go through its annual additions and subtractions.

- Rick Snider

“The key to it really will be the way we come back,” Rivera said, “and we approach the upcoming season. If we come back and we’re fat and lazy, we’re going to get the crap kicked out of us. It’s that simple. So, that won’t be acceptable. It’ll be my job, it’ll be the coaches’ job, it’ll be our leadership’s job in terms of player leadership to make sure we don’t do that. That’s the first step.

“The second step is making sure that we do a good job evaluating our current roster and improving it, and then evaluating our scheme and see if what we’re doing is giving our players the best chance to be successful. Then, we’ll go from there. I think that’s the start. One of the things that happened in the past was we were able to look at what we did, evaluate what we did, improve upon it, and we were able to take the next step. That is the most important thing is going to be, what have we learned from our history?”