Big Al suspended for the remainder of season

[calia]

It will be interesting to see the reactions from guys on the team. I fully expect them to fall in behind Shanahan and say things along the lines of "it is regrettable and I would like to have seen things work out differently, but Albert has only himself to blame."

I hope Fletch circles the D together and uses this as motivation for this weekend. It's damned Bucs week (can't do the **** expletive-laden version after the beat down we took last week; that would suggest a level of excitement about our prospects that seems wildly unrealistic).

[irish]

Originally Posted by maroonandblack30

I love that Shanny is laying the smack down. Culture needed to be changed....

Honestly this could give the team a spark. Fat Al obviously didn't care about the team.

I think that for Shanny its easier to start tough and maybe ease up than start easy and get tough later.

[Dlyne8r]

Jeeze, just listening to BMitch rant about how bad Shanny has handled this situation. I like BMitch, but dude, it's not like the coaches are trying to blame Fat Al for the "team" failures this season, they're just dealing with a malcontented moron and "his" failure to do WHAT HE WAS PAID TO DO!!

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by Dlyne8r

Jeeze, just listening to BMitch rant about how bad Shanny has handled this situation. I like BMitch, but dude, it's not like the coaches are trying to blame Fat Al for the "team" failures this season, they're just dealing with a malcontented moron and "his" failure to do WHAT HE WAS PAID TO DO!!

They could have dealt with this malcontent weeks ago, basically they waited until this blew up to deal with it.

Originally Posted by calia

I hope Fletch circles the D together and uses this as motivation for this weekend. It's damned Bucs week (can't do the **** expletive-laden version after the beat down we took last week; that would suggest a level of excitement about our prospects that seems wildly unrealistic).

I think the reasons for motivation are gone from this team. And if they do get motivated, then great, way to do it when it doesn't matter anymore.

[maroonandblack30]

I usually agree with BMitch, but he is way off on this one.

If AH did the things Shanny said he did, he deserves everything he got.


Most people would agree that the skins needed a culture change after spurrier, gibbs 2, and zorn. This is part of the culture change...I love it.

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by maroonandblack30

I usually agree with BMitch, but he is way off on this one.

If AH did the things Shanny said he did, he deserves everything he got.


Most people would agree that the skins needed a culture change after spurrier, gibbs 2, and zorn. This is part of the culture change...I love it.

Too bad the culture change doesn't include winning.

[maroonandblack30]

Originally Posted by Ruhskins

Too bad the culture change doesn't include winning.

Its a huge rebuilding year, even if they won't publicly say so.

I'm actually impressed that this roster is 5-7 at this point.

If Shanny sticks around for a few years the Skins will win games.

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by Ruhskins

Too bad the culture change doesn't include winning.

Hopefully, culture change is a foundation on which winning can be built.

[Dlyne8r]

Originally Posted by Ruhskins

They could have dealt with this malcontent weeks ago, basically they waited until this blew up to deal with it.....

I'm not defending the timing of this, simply disagreeing with BMitch's viewpoint that Shanny was trying to lay blame on AH for the entire team's failure this season. Most EVERYONE on this team can shoulder at least some blame. But, considering what Shanny and Co. inherited, what the hell did we all expect, a run to the Super Bowl? Many of us knew this would take more than one season, probably 2-3, to get the ship righted. We have still yet given this thing time to unfold. AH is just one of the problems and now he has finally been eradicated.

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by Dlyne8r

I'm not defending the timing of this, simply disagreeing with BMitch's viewpoint that Shanny was trying to lay blame on AH for the entire team's failure this season. Most EVERYONE on this team can shoulder at least some blame. But, considering what Shanny and Co. inherited, what the hell did we all expect, a run to the Super Bowl? Many of us knew this would take more than one season, probably 2-3, to get the ship righted. We have still yet given this thing time to unfold. AH is just one of the problems and now he has finally been eradicated.

Gotcha, yeah that's a stupid generalization of BMitch.

[Ruhskins]

A little too late, don't get why people are so preoccupied with money. No one said that fixing Vinny's mess would be cheap.

While AH brought this upon himself, Shanahan could have easily avoided all of this by trading him or cutting him. Now that he has taught the fat overpaid kid a lesson, I hope he focuses on the crappy team we have now.

[Ruhskins]

So does AH become the biggest Redskins bust of all time? I kinda think so but wanted to get other opinions.

[warpaint]

Originally Posted by Ruhskins

So does AH become the biggest Redskins bust of all time? I kinda think so but wanted to get other opinions.

Without a doubt, no question about it?

[Lotus]

Originally Posted by Ruhskins

So does AH become the biggest Redskins bust of all time? I kinda think so but wanted to get other opinions.

Hard to say. We got a little more production from him than we did from, say, Archuleta. Not much, but a little. But we paid a lot more, of course.

[mlmdub130]

Originally Posted by Lotus

Hard to say. We got a little more production from him than we did from, say, Archuleta. Not much, but a little. But we paid a lot more, of course.

i think ah get's the crown, but closely followed by archuleta and jason taylor, miami really got us good on that one