Let’s call it bittersweet. Daniel Snyder is gone, and so we can love and appreciate the work being done by active war-torn members of the Commanders’ franchise. Ron Rivera and Eric Bieniemy got the most out of this roster and the entirety of this sordid situation and were rewarded with a gentle nudge off the cliff as trade deadline time approached.
Both Chase Young and Montez Sweat are gone, and now Rivera will have to field questions about his potential demise for the rest of the year and about why he wasn’t allowed to keep players who could help him win. Obviously he would prefer not to part with a pair of talented edge rushers he himself drafted. Such is life when a new boss rolls into town.
Here’s the good part, though: As bad as we should feel for Rivera, for Bieniemy, for Sam Howell, for all the players who made the best of a terrible situation, we should be excited for the fans who have loyally suffered alongside this franchise for decades.
