Rutherford is doing what he was told to do. Go for a cup. Even if the team is a bubble play-off team coming off back-to-back-to-back awful starts to the season. Even if the defense core is scary thin (as we are seeing with injuries to three of the team's top six on the depth chart going into training camp). Ownership gave the marching orders and Rutherford has to follow them if he wants to get paid.
If the team hadn't been so hot in the back half of last season we may have seen the plug pulled but even if they hadn't, I'm willing to bet the marching orders would not have changed. Aquilini, who is also a big fan, is the team's biggest problem.
Super glad the pumpkin patch story isn't true.
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