You’ll never hear me sing the praises of the Bidwill family as OWNERS. They are good people who actually do want to win, but have failed miserably at actually building a franchise top to bottom. Will that ever change? Probably not & maybe you’re right in that all we can wish for is to get “lucky” and have very short stints of moderate success. As far as BA is concerned, he never had ANY interest in being in any kind of advisory position. BA is from York, PA. He went to the same HS as all my children. Steve Keim was from here too. They came back here often for speaking engagements during the offseason & I had the opportunity on at least 3 different occasions to hear them speak & to break bread with them and their PA cronies after these events. And because I was the ONLY Cardinal fan of the bunch (they were all Steeler fans), I was always welcome to join in afterwards. BASK were great people & BA came here to win and win fast. He was already in his 60’s, wanted no part in developing a young QB, and every decision they made was to win asap & that’s why when the window of opportunity for a championship closed, it slammed shut.
Fast forward to the current regime. Give Bidwill some credit. He was tired of short stints of success & he brought in MOJG to build a team from scratch & one that OVER TIME could have sustained success. They are very young, they do have talent, and they do play hard. They showed continued success until due to injuries, they just had too many young guys thrust into roles that they couldn’t or were just not ready to excel at. Doesn’t mean they won’t in the near future. The silver lining to the 2025 season is that so many young guys were forced to play & that is never a bad thing from a developmental standpoint. MOJG built this from scratch & I believe they deserve the opportunity to bounce back from an injury riddled season the likes that I have never seen in my 62 years as a Cardinal fan. To start all over again is not the answer right now.