[brent]

Its worth noting the Rams defenses were always mediocre to terrible in part because of the high-flying Saunders offense. This clearly doesn't play to the strengths of the Skins, who were a defensive team last year and not built for scoring races (even if perhaps someone thought they were).

I think the problem here is really boiling back to the "Real Redskin" problem. Where Gibbs might have been loyal to a fault to Brunell, it sounds like defensively the team has demonstrated 0 loyalty to anyone on defense, treating them all as replacable. Even top performing defensive players have been pushed out the door. The Redskins have run out of pegs to put in round holes, and it sounds like Williams loves to shove squares into round holes with all of his might. Worse, it seems like they can't cajole players into overperforming anymore because the team lacks credibility on how it has treated defensive players in the past 3 years.