Expectations for the rest of the season...

[JWsleep]

Originally Posted by Hijinx

At some point you can't keep turning over the Head Coach job at the rate the Skins do. You all saw with the Zorn fiasco, we got him because our first choices said no thanks. This franchise can no longer get the pick of litter as far as coaches go. If I was a top OC or DC and Washington came at me with an offer, I would pass and stay where I was, because lots of times you get 1 chance at head coach and you don't want it to be at a place with a mess of a Front Office and owner. Since 2000 the Skins are on their 8th Head coach. That is a bad stat.

I know this from personal experience, if you take a job that has had a extremely high turnover, chances are there is something wrong with the job and not just the people hired to do the job.

Great post. Stick with Gruden and build. The grass is always greener somewhere else for the skins. Just stick with a guy and build. (Will Danny EVER get this???)

As for RGIII, my hope is that part of what were seeing is what's called a "U-shaped curve" in learning theory. You see this in lots of situations where people learn a new skill (and he really is learning something new--wc offense is just not what he's had to do): they start pretty well, then totally fall off a cliff (into the U). Then they recover and pick it up. Learning language, how to play an instrument, lots of things show this pattern. He's got to unlearn lots of habits that have won him a Heisman, that he's been using since he's played football. But he may well be going down the U. Will he be given enough time to get back up the other side? Does he have the talent to do it? We'll see. My sincere hope is that the pathetic shit we saw Sunday is part of the learning curve and not the down-hill slide out of the league for RGIII.