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Bill Romanowski says “lazy” McNabb couldn’t fit with Shanahan | ProFootballTalk (http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/08/10/bill-romanowski-says-lazy-mcnabb-couldnt-fit-with-shanahan/)

Bill Romanowski says “lazy” McNabb couldn’t fit with Shanahan | ProFootballTalk (http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/08/10/bill-romanowski-says-lazy-mcnabb-couldnt-fit-with-shanahan/)

Isn't McNabb famous for those hell weeks in Arizona? I'm sorry, I mean I'm looking for reasons why McNabb failed in DC, but I'm not about to pin laziness on him just so we can look righteous.

If I had to guess I'd stay stubbornness was most most likely the biggest culprit. This is McNabb we're talking about here. Not Dan late night at the cabana club Marino.

Isn't McNabb famous for those hell weeks in Arizona? I'm sorry, I mean I'm looking for reasons why McNabb failed in DC, but I'm not about to pin laziness on him just so we can look righteous.

If I had to guess I'd stay stubbornness was most most likely the biggest culprit. However this is McNabb we're talking about here. Not Dan late night at the cabana club Marino.


He also said on JIM ROME that "Mcnabb may not have been smart enough"

He also said on JIM ROME that "Mcnabb may not have been smart enough"

Why is it that the guys coming to our defense are the Bill Romanowski's of the world. Why can't we get Jaws, Joe Montana, Steve Young, Troy Aikman, Tom Jackson, someone, ANYONE that isn't a humongous blowhard.

Heck we might as well have Jose Canseco speak up for us at this point

lol no shit

Why is it that the guys coming to our defense are the Bill Romanowski's of the world. Why can't we get Jaws, Joe Montana, Steve Young, Troy Aikman, Tom Jackson, someone, ANYONE that isn't a humongous blowhard.

Heck we might as well have Jose Canseco speak up for us at this point

Dirtbag:

Maybe we could get Terrell Owens to do a Q&A for the Warpath. That might be fun... :spank:

Snyder has to be prepared for us to suck right? I mean everyone else can see the writing on the wall.I feel like this season is infinitely more likely to end in a Shanahan resignation/retirement party than any other outcome. The five year contract is inflated like a free agent deal, except it's technically "guaranteed".

But I'm sure there's a mutual understanding of expectations. If Shanahan was actually here to rebuild the franchise (like Gibbs was here to rehabilitate it), they would have started in 2010. They weren't here for that. Shanahan took this job to try to capitalize on an advantageous situation left behind by Zorn: low expectations and a boatload of talent on the roster.

A year and a half later, the franchise is in a completely different place. The talent on the roster has been pretty much wiped clean. The team isn't nearly as old as it was before. There's not too many 25 and under players to be excited about yet, but the bad contracts are all gone. Coming out of the lockout, we had a blank slate. And we used predominately a "the future is now" strategy in free agency, though we did so without mortgaging the future position (finally).

Bruce Allen is here for the long haul. Mike Shanahan though appears to be more interested in proving that he is smarter than the rest of the league (that was right on a number of players coming out of college that others missed on). Hey, if Shanahan is the genius he believes he is, this team will go ten and six, and Kellen Clemens will have a 4,000 yard passing season. Of course he's staying on board if that happens.

I mean, if we win this year, all bets are off and Hooray! for rebuilding The Right Way. If we lose this year, well, I think Shanahan is in good position to make a clean split with the organization in roughly the same long-term shape than when he took over and all he did was waste two years of Dan Snyder's not-all-that-valuable time. Life will go on.

Shanahan took this job to try to capitalize on an advantageous situation left behind by Zorn: low expectations and a boatload of talent on the roster.

What are you talking about Tripp?

A boatload of talent on the roster?

Redskin fans have slogged through this pathetic twenty year campaign of barely almost passable mediocrity and they sure as shit know the talent level on the Redskins has been terribly terribly overrated forever. By ourselves mostly. And Mr. Smithers (aka Vinny)

They were just paid like talented players.

Shanny was well aware of this. He has a different plan.

I agree with most everything else you said.

[QUOTE=GTripp0012;822070]I feel like this season is infinitely more likely to end in a Shanahan resignation/retirement party than any other outcome.

I strongly but respectfully disagree, i think this year is the year that we begin to compete again, i'd say 8-8. Shanahan's cleaning up after "Vinny and Dan's BOGUS ADVENTURE"/10 + year rager, filled with a lot of excess in every area. He had to make a plan, and take out the garbage. this year he knows what tools he has and what he doesn't, he's got guys who bought into the system, most of whom know what is to be expected or at least will by the end of preseason. so why after light is visible after this dismal tunnel of franchise history is starting to end will he just walk away? he always talks about full commitment/effort, so why would he leave a job unfinished?

Dirtbag:

Maybe we could get Terrell Owens to do a Q&A for the Warpath. That might be fun... :spank:

In terms of blowhards

Romanowski > T.O

People just forget because T.O has been around more recently.