Wilbon's article

everyone should read wilbons article today, but here is an excerpt for all of you that STILL continue to support Dan Snyder:
"It's possible to learn about the Redskins by looking at the Steelers, who are sort of the anti-Redskins model of how to build and sustain a team. Every offseason, the Redskins scrap the latest plan and start another. The Pittsburgh franchise is the epitome of stability, from Bill Cowher's 13-year run as coach to Bettis's nine years of service. The Steelers and Bettis, rather than divorce one another, remarried in the offseason. And when starter Duce Staley suffered an injury several weeks ago, Cowher called on the Bus to resume his old role. All Bettis has done since then is rush for 100 yards or more four times in four games, and carry at least 29 times in each game. All the Bus has done is take the pressure off rookie quarterback sensation Ben Roethlisberger, control the clock, keep the Steelers' defense rested and demonstrate to everybody in Pittsburgh's locker room the value of professionalism and team-first thinking."

this team is the joke of the nfl, and Mark Brunell could end up being the worst FA signing in the history of sport, let alone the nfl.

Bergman14:

Brunell's signing was not a move of genius to be sure.

However, the worst free agent signing in sports trophy has probably been retired by the NY Mets when they signed Mo Vaughn for a guaranteed contract of about $80M...

Why does Dan Snyder get all the blame when we're losing? Why can't the players be held accountable for once?

I think Snyder overpaid most of these guys, and there not living up to it. Its sad, but true.

Seriously, common now. Outside of the Brunell singing, what would you have wanted him to do differently this past offseason? Its not his fault Spurrier just left, and we were forced to start a new plan. I'm not a huge fan of Synder by any means, but why do we blame him? Its not his fault.

Because Snyder wants to win now and lose later. Of course, since we are losing now and will lose later, Snyder is going to break up the team one way or another. Jerry Jones of the Boys, reduced his role with Parcells and they won. Now, you see them losing and he is stirring up the pot again in Dallas. I do fault a lot of blame on Snyder for not having any patience. I do believe that Marty ball could have worked here, but was fired like many of our other coaches. Sure Snyder has not really been in the picture much this year, but his pressence will be felt one way or another. It is the same old story every year. We will bring in some used NFC East trash and try to recycle them to work like every other NFC East team.

As Wilbon hinted at, its the tone of the organization set at the top, with Dan Snyder. As long as things continue going the way they are, I can see us ever being a championship caliber team. This is football, there is a salary cap, this is the one sport where spending money does not lead to success, you need to have a solid organization with STABILITY, not to mention a GM. Im just afraid with all the great young talent we have had over the last few years we are really missing out on an opportunity

you need to have a solid organization with STABILITY, not to mention a GM. Im just afraid with all the great young talent we have had over the last few years we are really missing out on an opportunity

So we have great young talent yet we need a GM?

I don't think Snyder will do anything drastic this offseason. He respects Gibbs too much to strip him of any power and trusts him to right the ship as well as to win eventually. I can see them maybe cutting Samuels and/or Brunell but there's not a lot of shopping to be done on the free agent market. The only splashy thing I can see them doing is if Pennington somehow isn't signed by the end of the season and/or isn't franchised for some reason Snyder and Gibbs going after him and trading Ramsey for a pick. Other than that, personnel wise, I don't know of anything needing an overhaul. We need a new center and some depth along the defensive line but other than that I can't see where they will greatly improve by getting new players.

The 2nd Gibbs era isn't even in it's 2nd offseason yet, let's give it some time to see how things go before we string Snyder up from the rafters.

I think Snyder will do exactly what he said he would do, let Gibbs run the show and stay in the background.

smootsmack:

You hit that one on the head. The asumption here always is that the Redskins are brimming over with talent and that it is the stupid coaches and/or the corrupt referees that are preventing the team from winning.

People say we have a WR corps that is in the top three of the league.

Portis was supposed to be the best RB in the NFC according to posters here.

Cooley was going to be a beast and make everyone forget about Jeremy Shockey in the NFC East. (Note: most everyone outside NY has already forgotten about Shockey because he is the single most overhyuped and over-rated player in the league at the moment.)

Patrick Ramsey's stats in his first umpteen starts show that he is better at this point than Brett Favre and Peyton Manning were so obviously he'll be at least their equal.

And so on and so on...

The sorry fact is that there is no team here. There are a bunch of "name recognition players" who continue to play for their own "names" and "stats" but with not nearly enough role players to do all the other things that have to be done to win football games. THE TALENT ISN'T SUFFICIENT because the team has been built on a faulty model.

And who is responsible for the model? Danny Boy or Vinnie Boombatz? You make the call...