Man, is Sally Jenkins dating Antonio Pierce?

She dislikes Dan Snyder as much as Pierce, are they dating? Maybe Dan asked her to douche :)

Sally Jenkins - The Wrong Job for the Man - washingtonpost.com (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/06/AR2008020604290.html)

real classy article

I know that columnists neither work for the teams they cover nor their fan bases, but it's really like she goes out of her way to trash the Redskins.

She's almost Pastabelly-esque sometimes.

Sally Jenkins is a regular poster her on the Warpath fan forum with a screen name we can't pronunce. Her rhetoric sounds so famaliar.

She's lost complete touch and just wants to be The Bitch.

Adn I don't want to hear that sarcastic "Of course, an owner who is 50-62 is not a failure." It's not about that. It's about her complete ignorance. We didn't win the Super Bowl, but she has to a complete idiot to think we had no late round and undrafted free agents playing pivotal roles down the stretch for us. Or did she not see what Anthony Montgomery, HB Blades, Stephen Heyer, and Reed Doughty did? She says the players believed in Coughlin, yet it's a known fact (which she even alludes to) that a lot of the players didn't believe in him.

Sportscurmudgeon loves her and they share the same bitter attitude, but at least he has some substance to his negativity. She has no clue

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.

Well played SGG

Excellent rebuttal SSG. I'd say the chances of her responding with something even remotely intelligent and balanced are next to nothing. Funny that she gets paid for her poorly researched rants.

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

That was the best article from Sally in years (sarcasm, thank god this thread isn't titled that).

SGC you shut things down. Post of the year so far.