Oftentimes, when a team is in a rough patch, fans will spend the offseason discussing how difficult the upcoming season will be. Call it what you want — rebuilding, tanking, resetting — the idea is the same: we're going to stink this year. Yet, somehow, as the season wears on, the disappointment still appears after every loss.
Fans want blood. The coaches? Gone. Players? Cut. Management? Fire them! It makes sense on an emotional level. Despite the fact that the season had bottom-of-the-barrel expectations, the practice of actually watching the team wallow in misery and get thoroughly outplayed in more than two-thirds of its games is depressing.