Bye Week Games Thread

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Originally Posted by GMScud

You can't throw that nugget out there and not elaborate. I agree that Fewell is a likely HC candidate. But you want him here.. next year??

I want a better coach, I think.

I also need to hedge in that: I don't think if I was the owner, I could pull the plug on Shanahan after just one year. I just don't think it would make a lot of sense. And one could argue that if you take away Perry Fewell's ability to coordinate a defense (especially if they stayed in a 3-4 like I would advocate for), he becomes a merely average hire instead of an exciting one.

But all this guy is done is coach Dick Jauron's defense to the top of the league last year, then take over for him on an interim basis and keep them there. Then he loses his job there in a clean sweep, and the Bills are 0-8 with the league's worst defense under George Edwards. All the Giants have done with Perry Fewell is taken last year's disaster and put out the most consistently fierce defense in the league this year where everyone is playing well. He's doing a better coaching job than anyone in the NFL right now, save maybe Hue Jackson, OC of the Raiders (who isn't as great a HC candidate, if b/c of age).

So yeah, I want my team to be coached by Perry Fewell. And I don't want my team to be coached by Mike Shanahan. But I don't think at this point, the Redskins could get Fewell no matter what they did with Shanahan, so I do think they are married to what they've got. I think that Shanahan can improve conditions here with time, but eventually, this work environment will be too toxic for him to succeed. It's concerning, to say the least, that he's just 4-4 at this point. We're in decent position, and need to capitalize in the NFC playoff race this year.

/elaboration