Man, is Sally Jenkins dating Antonio Pierce?

real classy article

Well you can't spell class without ass. I guess if the shoe fits...

does anyone really care what sally jenkins has to say?
do you think the media will eat their words if ol' Russ gets hired?

THis may sound sexist, but I don't listen to women who report on sports that they can not play. Sorry.

She doesnt like Snyder, and she doesnt know what she is talking about. Never mind her, Spags would be a great coach here.. Fassell too

Post of the year so far.

Agreed!

Although the year has a long way to go! LOL!

I wrote the following e-mail to Sally...... " Sadly, you and the people at extremeskins.com are two sides of the same coin.
Great response. If you get an E-mail back you've got to post it.

But, I'll bet you a dollar you get no response. You use too many facts and reason, who needs those when you can use cheap, inflammatory (at flat out wrong) rhetoric like NY Sally.

THis may sound sexist, but I don't listen to women who report on sports that they can not play. Sorry.

She doesnt like Snyder, and she doesnt know what she is talking about. Never mind her, Spags would be a great coach here.. Fassell too

yeah that is sexist and most of all... dumb.

THis may sound sexist, but I don't listen to women who report on sports that they can not play. Sorry.

She doesnt like Snyder, and she doesnt know what she is talking about. Never mind her, Spags would be a great coach here.. Fassell too

That is perhaps because it is blatantly sexist and more than a bit ignorant. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that a good number of sportswriters never played the game at any meaningful level, and a lot of the best athletes in the world SUCK as commentators/writers (Emmitt Smith can't even speak coherently, I'd hate to read anything he wrote). Attack Jenkins on her substance (or lack thereof), not her gender. I'm only stating the obvious, but give me a break.

Sally really does hate for the sake of hating. This time she's not even in the ballpark though. It's like she just recycled some of her garbage from 3 years ago. I think people would take her more seriously if she just once in a while wrote something halfway positive.

I wrote the following e-mail to Sally.

I have several problems with your article suggesting that Steve Spagnuolo should run away from Dan Snyder and the Redskins.

First, Spagnuolo might be wise to cash in while he's hot. As Gregg Williams and other coordinators know all too well, head coaching opportunities don't always a come a knockin'. That's why Al Davis (who is Dan Snyder on crack, meth and junk) can always find a new victim and why guys like Romeo Crennel work for the once laughable Browns. If the Giants defense has a sub-par 2008 season or, worse, implodes this upcoming season, Spagnuolo will not be on too many head coaching short lists.

Second, the notion that the Redskins cannot win without a general manager is simply wrong. Many teams do quite well without GMs (Dallas, the #1 seed in the NFC, has a GM named Mr. Jones). Many teams with respected GMs don't do so well (see the Texans' record under Charley Casserly). Moreover, many hot coaching candidates want some or total control over personnel. Danny went that route in 2000 with Marty and 2003 with Spurrier and, suffice it to say, neither venture was particularly successful.

Third, your article suggests that it is unreasonable to believe that Snyder would have retained Tom Coughlin after last season. Steve Spurrier posted back to back losing seasons (the second of which was flat out embarassing), yet Snyder backed Spurrier at every turn. Joe Gibbs also woefully unperformed in 2 of his 4 seasons, yet Snyder wanted to sign him to an extension.

Fourth, you scoff at the notion that the Redskins could ever find contributors in the lower rounds of the draft. Perhaps you are unfamiliar with H.B. Blades, Reed Doughty, Anthony Montgomery, and Kedric Golston, as well as undrafted free agents Chris Wilson, Lorenzo Alexander, Stephon Heyer, and Leigh Torrence. That's not to mention former players like Lemar Marshall and Antonio Pierce.

Fifth, your article repeatedly praises the Giants ownership and front office for its patience. I find a great deal of irony in that view. As your article conceded, the Giants were in total disarray for several years and many players openly and privately questioned Tom Coughlin's leadership abilities. Perhaps you should be 1/2 as patient with Dan Snyder as the Mara family has been with Tom Coughlin.

I know that you are writing an op-ed, not a news article. I also know that we are in the Fox News/Bush era of "us versus them," where people abuse hyperbole after hyperbole to get their point across. If nuance were a stock, it would be worthless. BUT, it would be nice to read an op-ed every once in a while that is truly "fair and balanced." Sadly, you and the people at extremeskins.com are two sides of the same coin.

nice job

Well its always easy to write articals about what went right with team and what went wrong after the fact and she takes this oppertunity to try and stick it to Snyder.

You might want to follow that up with something about our 2nd, 3rd, and 4th rounders as well. She cited Giant examples of same, so should we. Our low rounds have been very good, but the upper and middle rounds also have to mean something, or so the traditional thinking goes.