If success is relative, there may be no greater example than the past 20 years of the Washington Football Team franchise.
Fans are still basking in the glow of Ron Rivera’s inaugural 7-9 NFC East championship season, and particularly in the team’s impressive playoff loss to the eventual Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Look, under the Dan Snyder regime, folks around here have learned: You take your feel-good moments when you can.
Which in part explains the longstanding fondness many feel for 2001’s 8-8 team, and the esteem in which the coach of that team, Marty Schottenheimer, is held to this day.