The Official Defense Has Major Issues/Fire Jim Haslett Thread

We don't need to fire Haslett. We just need to pull Greg Blache out of retirement and hire him as a defensive assistant. Then when we lose against the Eagles, Packers, Colts, and Bears, we let Blache make the defensive calls against the Lions. Blache will somehow call a better game and the fans will say "See it's not the defensive line, it's the coach."

I wonder what the defensive version of the swinging gate play is like?

We need a real nose tackle. Are there any decent prospects next year?

Kemo sucks and Albert is on and off.Not 1st rd talent in the draft. Some 3-4 DE prospects though.

Can't read my, can't read my, can't read my defense....oh wait you can.

We don't need to pitch it in just yet. The Redskins need to swallow their pride and come together as a team, both players and coaches. here is a list of the changes that need to happen.
1. The Haynesworth-Shanahan spat needs to be over. Start him, play him, and use his strengths for your the teams benefit.
2. Commit to the running game. Not for one play, not for one quarter, not for one half, the whole game.
3.The defense needs to attack. Pressure, pressure, pressure.
4. Play our youth. Devin Thomas need to play and develop as a widereceiver. He can only get bettter in game time situation.
5. Spread the ball around. Not Just Moss and Cooley.

The Haslett should be fired angle of this thread is pretty stupid. Shanahan came in here and forced a 3-4 down everyone's throat when a more aggressive 4-3 is all we needed. Not to mention the fact that he chose to focus on a pissing match with the most talented defensive player on the team.

If anyone should be fired, it should be Shanahan.

Wiser words...I think Shanny will stick around for a few seasons but from what I've seen it won't be anything special. He still doesn't know how to pick winners on defense (players or coaches) and obviously the offense isn't going to be so good we can just blow em out of the water.

...it will be really interesting to see if Allen lasts beyond Shanny? Who's really in charge lol?

listen...u freaking ''fire the coach'' fans are crazy... We won 4 games last year with this same squad...(except trent & mcnabb). Remember....Shanahan wanted this defense....and we are in year 1 of our transition!!! People please calm down with the firing crap....if you want to say our run D is garbage....fine. (u are correct).....we should run the ball more...(u are correct)...but firing a coach who inherited players that don't fit a new system is beyond crazy.....this type of impulsive reaction is why our franchise has sucked the past 15+ years....we have to show patience with this new regime...again..we are 7 months removed from going 4-12.....stop reading/listening to the hype about how many games we should win and understand...u are what ur record says...right now...we are only 1-2

Joe Gibbs came here wanting to light up the scoreboard passing. He took a look around and decided the only way to win was with a power running game.

Shanny needs to do some soul searching this week. He has painted himself into a "win now" corner.

I think it's easy to figure out our strength on offense.

First, without Trent Williams, our offense goes to crap.

With Trent Williams, we are a PASS, PASS, PASS team.

Defensively, we are ****ed regardless because we DO NOT HAVE A NT.

I think we have to. If we don't it seems awfully stupid. What we're doing isn't working at all. Not even close. Take the damn ego out of it and adjust. We simply do not have the talent or personnel to be playing a full time 3-4.
Well said , we do not have the right players for the 3-4 . Hope we start running 4-3 , maybe on 1st & 2nd downs atleast .

90% of you could not wait for blache to leave. now you same people wish he was still coaching this defense.

Yea folks Haslett isn't going anywhere soon.. Bottom line is the skins just don't have enough talent to win right now, it's all because of Snyder and Vinny. We have old players that will be gone next season, our offense is better only bcuz of mcnabb and Williams.. It showed yesterday how good rent really is. DMac can't do it by himself anymore he's 33 not 26. It's hard to face the facts but we are in for another long season, 7-9 would be a good year for this team.