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Cerrato is gone. Randle El isn't returning punts. And there you have it.
I think in terms of performance, the hardest veterans to replace, in orders, are Fletcher, Campbell, Moss, Randle El. Haynesworth and Hall rate to be here next year because they just signed huge contracts. I believe Rogers will be a free agent and will be a difficult choice on whether to keep him or let him go. Samuels is hard to replace too, but I don't see him coming back.Most of Portis' salary next year is guaranteed. So but cutting him, it is either addition by subtraction or just the value of opening up his roster spot for a younger player.
Now please beat Dallas, though I realize how impossible that will be if you guys keep playing like you did last night.Now this is getting to be ridiculous...
Snyder's still here, Cerrato's not, and that makes it pretty obvious.
I only watched the first half, but there were O-linemen whiffing on almost every play. It doesn't matter who's in there, they're a bunch of weebles. Jones, Heyer, Robinson, Williams would not even be playing for another team.
I agree, but I bet Campbell will say he didn't play well. This talk of Collins as a 1-year stopgap is pretty ludicrous by the way. He can't start for any other NFL team but he's a solution here? That's an example of how far our standards for this team have been beaten down, to where people actually consider Collins and Levi Jones and Mike Williams to be possible solutions. Campbell is more valuable to the team than are all 3 of them put together. By the way, ESPN980 said that Shanahan had reportedly agreed to take the job, that he'd be head coach and team president (Gibb's role), and that Snyder had agreed to "get out". Seriously, that's what was reported. I assume they meant "get out" of personnel issues. That would leave Shanahan in Gibb's role, and Allen in Cerrato's role. Each of those is a step forward.
As they noted on Sportscenter, Schefter seems to think it's pretty much a done deal, and he has closer ties to Shanny than anyone in football- they cowrote a book and Schefter breaks pretty mcuh every story he's involved in.I think yesterday was a pill we all had to swallow for the benefit of the football team. The last few weeks might have started to convince a few people around the franchise that this particular team didn't need to be completely blown up, that they were playing with pride and had heart. That's a bunch of garbage. We suck, and this was a reminder of that. You don't win games by playing with pride and heart, you win games by scoring more points than the other team, and nobody affiliated with the Washington Redskins has shown an ability to do that regularly.
The report from the radio was being posted as I was typing, so didn't see it before I hit post. That makes me feel a little better. But I wonder if Shanny watched that game last night and thought "WTF did I get myself in to???" Wonder if he made it THROUGH the game. Or if he bailed on it like the rest of us.
On Sportscenter, Schefter seemed to be saying that he preferred D.C. to Dallas because at least Snyder was saying he'd be hands-off, whereas JJ doesn't even bother with that charade. Here's hoping Snyder doesn't show his true colors until Shanny is on board. Well, hopefully he'll be true to his word and not meddle even after Shanny is on board- we can all dream, right?I don't think last night will scare him off. Especially if next year is uncapped. I would guess that he'd love to have the freedom to blow the whole thing up and build a team to his liking from scratch with Allen.
I'm not concerned with the pressure on Shanny. I'm concerned with turning this franchise around.
Livid? No. Unhappy? Definitely. Then again, I don't get livid over football. It's not THAT important.
Bradford yes, Mallett, meh. Tebow or LeFevour
I also think maybe we bring in the Safety from USC, and maybe trade down, and pick up Spiller in the later part of the 1st.It's been over for about ten weeks now...
We only win in March, not the rest of the 11 months.
Yes.There are several more pressing, fundamental needs.
8 games for each of the next 10 years seems to qualify as a success around here.
was it posted on theonion.com?hard to believe that headline
sorry bout that - slow on the uptake today
This is a guy who thought he could reform Maurice Clarett so much he used a first day draft pick on him. Hubris is his middle name. He won't be "scared away."I think the bar has been set pretty low. I think the Redskins just need to resemble a professional football team in Shanny's first year to get lots of accolades. With the Redskins playing better lately, there were even posts in this thread that people thought Zorn should be given a 3rd year.
Has Vinny gotten on a radio show boasting about how much better the Redskins were under him compated to Bruce Allen?
He did "leave all the tools in place for a great football team". Particularly the OL.
Washington Post runs article on Redskins sueing season ticket holders. Donovan responds that the Redskins are run just like the New England Patriots. So the article states how few ticket holders the Patriots have sued compared to the Redskins.Donovan really should stop talking publicly.
So the coaches were feuding leading up to the Giants game.I forget who said it on the radio today, but what he said was that it looked like the coaching staff quit during the Giants game.
I don't know why everyone is trying to find some meaning under the covers here. It's pretty easy when you consider...1) we are a 4-9 team going into the game
DudsLevi Jones
I thought there was an unwritten rule among coaches that you don't interview for a job when someone else already has it. Yet Shanahan has apparently talked to Snyder numerous times about being the head coach. And now Jerry Gray appears to have interviewed for his boss's job. I understand Gray's motivation, but Zorn should be pissed.
I don't understand Gray's motivation. ...or was he interviewing for the interim HC job? Do they even do that? I just don't get it. I can't imagine him thinking he had a shot at the job this offseason.
Yes, there is something more. This team wasn't prepared. I guess I can buy that the coaching staff quit during the game, but I think they didn't properly prepare during the week. I've read that news broke late last week that Gray had interviewed for the job. Players said that definitely caused a distraction for the coaches. They weren't prepared.
