Let’s get to the chase here, this team really deserves no recognition. The past 6 weeks, this team is 1-5. Why? Because they are a 1-5 coached team and a 1-5 talent level team. There are Redskins fans out there who have a vision of this franchise in higher regard than what it deserves. There are fans out there that think the Redskins are still one of those elite NFC teams.
You know, next year. You know, this team is on the cusp. You know, this team has a solid foundation. You know, this team has a ‘real Redskins’ core. Face it. The ‘real Redskin’ fallacy does not exist. The ‘real Redskin’ mentality, definition, whatever you want to call it, was in the 1980s, stayed in the 1980’s and doesn’t exist anymore, it is just a idea or concept for Redskins fans to talk about. The fact is, added all up, this team is 7-7 and 1-6 in the last 6 games because that is the kind of team they are. They are nothing more than the Arizona Cardinal, the Bengals, the Cleveland Browns. There record since 2000 prove sit. Don’t think things will get any better either, not while Snyderrato runs the team. Until Dan Snyder realizes his role as owner and comes to terms that professionals must run the organization, expect more of the same over the next 30 years. Dan Snyder and Vinny Cerrato are not competent to run a football franchise and as long as those two clowns make the football related decisions. I can tell you one thing flat out, if Dan Snyder wants to test my fanhood, he will by firing Jim Zorn and not packing Vinny Cerrato with him. Remember, Cerrato is the one that built this team over the past 6 years, and this team stinks.
Reality is, it had made the playoffs just twice since Dan Snyder became owner in 2000, have not finished below 10-6 since Dan Snyder became owner, the two times they made the playoffs in the Snyder Era, they did not go far at all, and finally, this team has not won and NFC East or NFL Conference title since before Dan Snyder. Are you getting a familiar theme out of this?
Ok, sorry, back to the shortened Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down. Don’t have much to say, there isn’t much to say.
THUMBS UP:
Rock Cartwright. Played hard on special teams, returned kicks well, including the 86 yarder at the end of the game. In a game short of anything positive, Rock gets a thumbs up for not quitting.
London Fletcher. The only player on the defense that realized that playoffs were still in the picture. He played hard, made some great tackles, and again provided great leadership. Fletcher simply did not deserve to be on the field with that pathetic display of defense.
Honorable Mention: Backup S Mike Green played very well in place of Chris Horton and deserves some recognition.
THUMBS DOWN:
The Redskins Players: You played just like the outcome of the game. You quit. It was pathetic. CB Carlos Rogers looked like he could care less on that TD pass to Chris Henry. Rogers should apologize for conduct unbecoming a professional. The team had no heart. Jason Campbell was off. The secondary was horrific. The defensive line, as expected of course, because we don’t draft lineman, you know, we can’t do something stupid like that, applied little pressure against a horrible Bengals line. Just an embarrassing performance. It was hard to lift my head as a ‘Skins fan yesterday, not because of the loss, but because of the way this team simply laid down and quit. Pathetic.
The Redskins Coaches: After getting criticized for nearly two to three weeks in the media, outside the media, you name it, for lack of creativity and adjustment, Jim Zorn provided nothing more than he has in the past. It was a picture perfect Zorn offense, no wrinkles, no changes, no adjustments. The play calling was horrible and predictable. The slant pass where Moss got hammered and got the wind knocked out of him — was not the Bengal defense so expecting that? Mike Sellers twice on the goal line despite having the NFL’s leading rusher? Looks like Zorn would rather send a signal to Portis that he doesn’t care for him than punch the ball in and give the team life. The coaching was as pathetic as the play of the players. They can both turn to each other today and make excuses, because the Redskins gave become quite good at excuses over the past 8 years.
That’s it. One suggestion and request. Can we put away the term ‘real Redskin’ because it is a fallacy, a relic of the past, a concept that doesn’t exist and hasn’t for years.
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bravo, I love the skins and always will but we’re a dysfunctional franchise desperatly in need of a real GM that can hire the coach and develop a scouting department on par with a real NFL team. I dont have much hope for next season because if we fire Zorn, no one’s gonna want to come here and if we dont fire Zorn we’ll get more of the same from a guy that would’ve struggled as the OC this year. But these are the same underachieving players that Gibbs, in retrospect, did an outstanding job with to make the playoffs twice in 4 years. These guys are shrinking violets, that hope to win rather than expect it…
Yup. Here is the main problem. it doesn’t matter what coach, what QB your bring in. This team is being crippled by incompetent front office decisions. This team has made absolutely NO STRIDES in Snyder’s 8 years of ownership. How long are we Redskin fans actually going to believe that ‘Hey, Danny wants to win’ mentality. Of course he does. BUT, his ownership style is strangling any chance of success. We are actually becoming more like the Detroit Lions than we want to believe, not just bad football, but horrifically poor front office. If Vinny Cerrato were fired today, Vinny Cerrato would be out of the NFL. There is not a single franchise that would hire him, outside Detroit and Oakland.