T.J. Duckett Conspiracy

[Oakland Red]

It seems like everything is judged pretty much based on what happened last Sunday by a lot of people. Things go bad, you have to trash the quarterback. Or if he has some cache built up, trash the coaches, or the player acquistion strategy. Unless you win, then it's all cool. A roller coaster is fun once in awhile, but it's tough to live on one.

Teams can be at different stages in my view - stages in their readiness to make a Super Bowl run. The Redskins have a lot of the ingredients ready and almost baked to make a Super Bowl run. So the focus has not been on the draft but on adding the veterans we need to finish the puzzle.

The confusion I think exists about all this is conflating the years Snyder was running the team without Gibbs with the years since Gibbs has arrived. These are two different eras in my view. Snyder of course wanted to get all the flashy names like Deion Sanders and Bruce Smith and LaVar Arrington. He wanted to release players without the head coach knowing, so that the head coach would find out from players in team meetings that someone was cut. He wanted to come into the locker room after games, close the door and give the head coach a humiliating tongue lashing.

All those terrible years are gone, and Gibbs arrived, and he has been making the best of the situation, bringing order, developing the team that he inherited, taking the best of who was already here, and figuring on the best strategy to go from that point.

To my mind, we have been getting better overall every year since he arrived. Things are moving along well in the big picture. Mistakes have been made, and right now releasing Walt Harris could be one of the biggest ones. It seems like this year is not the year for us to make the Super Bowl run, but hopefully we will get the engines running very well before the season is out.

And the fact is that even in this much maligned season, we have already had some special moments, particularly against the Jaguars.

"Patience is the only strength that a man needs."

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by Oakland Red

It seems like everything is judged pretty much based on what happened last Sunday by a lot of people. Things go bad, you have to trash the quarterback. Or if he has some cache built up, trash the coaches, or the player acquistion strategy. Unless you win, then it's all cool. A roller coaster is fun once in awhile, but it's tough to live on one.

Teams can be at different stages in my view - stages in their readiness to make a Super Bowl run. The Redskins have a lot of the ingredients ready and almost baked to make a Super Bowl run. So the focus has not been on the draft but on adding the veterans we need to finish the puzzle.

The confusion I think exists about all this is conflating the years Snyder was running the team without Gibbs with the years since Gibbs has arrived. These are two different eras in my view. Snyder of course wanted to get all the flashy names like Deion Sanders and Bruce Smith and LaVar Arrington. He wanted to release players without the head coach knowing, so that the head coach would find out from players in team meetings that someone was cut. He wanted to come into the locker room after games, close the door and give the head coach a humiliating tongue lashing.

All those terrible years are gone, and Gibbs arrived, and he has been making the best of the situation, bringing order, developing the team that he inherited, taking the best of who was already here, and figuring on the best strategy to go from that point.

To my mind, we have been getting better overall every year since he arrived. Things are moving along well in the big picture. Mistakes have been made, and right now releasing Walt Harris could be one of the biggest ones. It seems like this year is not the year for us to make the Super Bowl run, but hopefully we will get the engines running very well before the season is out.

And the fact is that even in this much maligned season, we have already had some special moments, particularly against the Jaguars.

"Patience is the only strength that a man needs."

Nice post. I think what people tend to forget is that Gibbs didn't win the Super Bowl every year. We tend to look back on his first tenure and think only of the 3 rings. But I mean he was the coach for 12 years so there were "lean years" (relatively speaking). He built winners over time. I understand the expectations are deservedly high this year, but not every game is going to be a resounding victory. It wasn't even like that the first time around.

[GhettoDogAllStars]

Originally Posted by Oakland Red

To my mind, we have been getting better overall every year since he arrived.

I agree. However, this season we are not as good as we were the 2nd half of last season ... we could be moving backwards a tad.

[redsk1]

Originally Posted by Oakland Red

It seems like everything is judged pretty much based on what happened last Sunday by a lot of people. Things go bad, you have to trash the quarterback. Or if he has some cache built up, trash the coaches, or the player acquistion strategy. Unless you win, then it's all cool. A roller coaster is fun once in awhile, but it's tough to live on one.

Teams can be at different stages in my view - stages in their readiness to make a Super Bowl run. The Redskins have a lot of the ingredients ready and almost baked to make a Super Bowl run. So the focus has not been on the draft but on adding the veterans we need to finish the puzzle.

The confusion I think exists about all this is conflating the years Snyder was running the team without Gibbs with the years since Gibbs has arrived. These are two different eras in my view. Snyder of course wanted to get all the flashy names like Deion Sanders and Bruce Smith and LaVar Arrington. He wanted to release players without the head coach knowing, so that the head coach would find out from players in team meetings that someone was cut. He wanted to come into the locker room after games, close the door and give the head coach a humiliating tongue lashing.

All those terrible years are gone, and Gibbs arrived, and he has been making the best of the situation, bringing order, developing the team that he inherited, taking the best of who was already here, and figuring on the best strategy to go from that point.

To my mind, we have been getting better overall every year since he arrived. Things are moving along well in the big picture. Mistakes have been made, and right now releasing Walt Harris could be one of the biggest ones. It seems like this year is not the year for us to make the Super Bowl run, but hopefully we will get the engines running very well before the season is out.

And the fact is that even in this much maligned season, we have already had some special moments, particularly against the Jaguars.

"Patience is the only strength that a man needs."

I see where you are coming from and do see alot of that going on but...

I try not to put too much into one game, so I try to look at trends and improvement. We started the year w/ SB hopes. I think every fan and player will admit that. We are 5 games into the season and to be so inconsistent its frustrating. Every team is going to have a bad day or two, that's expected. To have 2-3 bad games out of 5 tells alot SO FAR, about this team. Can they turn it around, sure. But they really haven't done much this season to warrant us to think they can.

So yeah after a loss, it seems like alot of people want to change the whole team around, but looking at trends i think we can draw some conclusions so far:

Good teams battle good teams on the road, we've folded
Portis is a top 5 back
We have offensive talent

[redsk1]

Originally Posted by redsk1

I see where you are coming from and do see alot of that going on but...

I try not to put too much into one game, so I try to look at trends and improvement. We started the year w/ SB hopes. I think every fan and player will admit that. We are 5 games into the season and to be so inconsistent its frustrating. Every team is going to have a bad day or two, that's expected. To have 2-3 bad games out of 5 tells alot SO FAR, about this team. Can they turn it around, sure. But they really haven't done much this season to warrant us to think they can.

So yeah after a loss, it seems like alot of people want to change the whole team around, but looking at trends i think we can draw some conclusions so far:

Good teams battle good teams on the road, we've folded
Portis is a top 5 back
We have offensive talent

Our defensive additions aren't helping yet
We need secondary help or SS back
Without a Ravens-like defense we need our QB to make some plays

[Rexi]

Originally Posted by Oakland Red

Mistakes have been made, and right now releasing Walt Harris could be one of the biggest ones.

To my surprise Walt has been good at #2 Corner. I really didn't think the move was that great in the offseason but Harris has been the MVP of our mostly trash defense.