Lets play Redskins Owner... (This is a long rant)

[FRPLG]

I think Gibbs is doing this right. He is building a TEAM and that takes more than one off season of personell moves and 9 games. I believe they made a conscious decision to do this right from the beginning. There are a lot of one hit wonders in this league simply because the parity so great. Teams like carolina can have one good year and fall of the face of the earth the next year. Teams like New England are RARE and DIFFICULT to build. It takes time an patience and I think Gibbs is giving us both. I really think it was totally recockulous to expect the Skins to have a good season considering the state of the team Gibbs was getting. I would say if we are playing like this next year then we can start hollering and bitching and moaning about Gibbs but for now we march foward in the direction Gibbs has set knowing full well that he is giving his all and getting the all from a 3 time super bowl head coach is better than any other team in the league right now.

My wishes for our team would be this...continue with Ramsey as QB the rest of this year. He can be a successful QB in this league giving the right situation. That situation is providing adequate protection and play making WRs. I think with Coles healthy next year we are greatly improved since his (currently lost)speed adds an aspect to the offense that is greatly missed.

Our protection will be greatly improved next year as long as we can keep Samuels and they stick with Raymer. That would give us 4/5 of the same line through two seasons. They will of course get Jansen back which is good since he and Thomas have played together before. I expect the line to provide good dividends next year and down the road. They will need to bring in a quality backup also since lacking one this year has been a problem.

On defense they will need to add a speed rusher. Williams has ben successful with the defense this year but I am fearful we are producing with a gimicky defense. Gimicky never works. The best defenses can apply pressure one week with safeties and LBs and sit back the next wekk as needed. Our defense can't sit back against anyone as our DL just has no ability to put pressure on tehe qb adequatly without support from the secondary. We also need some depth at DL.

The biggest thing we need next year is...
health.
This has been a terrible year for the Skins' health. Our defense has played well without Barrow, Arrington, Bowen, Lott, etc..but I think it is reasonable to think they would have been better with these guys in. Rememeber the backups were backups for a reason...they weren't as good as the starters. I think it is reasonable to expect that our defense would have been a much more play making type defense with barrwo and Arrington in there.

The key to next year is Health Health Health

[Beemnseven]

Originally Posted by FRPLG

I really think it was totally recockulous to expect the Skins to have a good season considering the state of the team Gibbs was getting.

Don't be surprised if last year's 5-11 team turns out to be better than this '04 Gibbs-coached team. We'll be lucky if we can match that win total.

Although I was not a fan of Schottenheimer when he was here, especially his offensive philosophy, after much thought, I have to agree with SC. Hindsight being 20/20, if there's one moment in the past where this team made the wrong turn, it very well might be when Snyder lost his patience with Schottenheimer. Sometimes I feel like sticking it out with Marty could have been the key to turning this franchise around. His discipline, his fundamentals and fierce and fiery ways might have been just what this team needed. That goes back to Dan Snyder, and that was all on him.

This is in no way meant to be an example of jumping off the Joe Gibbs Bandwagon. I don't want to be construed into one of those people who comes crawling back when things start getting better -- because I know they will with our coach. It's just going to take some time.

With just a few adjustments in his offensive system, sometimes I just feel like we'd be in the hunt right now if Schotty was still coaching this team.

[offiss]

I don't know why everyone is getting on Ceratto, the only real bad move we have made talent wise over the last 3 year's is Brunell who is Gibb's choice, in fact I believe Snyder and co. where against Brunell but allowed Gibb's to make the final decision, who else is bad? Ceratto didn't hire SS, Coles, Thomas, Jacob's, Dockery, where partly his decision but how many player's has he had an opportunity to draft or trade for? Marty made all the decision's when he was here, Snyder drafted Ramsey, I really don't think he has had much of a say the last few year's, our talent isn't the problem, it's been coaching, now we are in the process of being taught how to play in the NFL rather than college, and the biggest key to making that happen is Ramsey, the sooner he get's comfortable in Gibb's system the better we will be as a team, we will see player's start to live up to their hype, tough for a WR to excel when no one can get him the ball, tough for a RB to produce when you can't throw, everything run's through the QB one way or the other, a lot of fan's here are going to be very surprised on how much talent we really have once Ramsey start's hitting his reciever's, which he will do against Philli, but it will take some time for him to become very consistant and mistake free.

[sportscurmudgeon]

offiss:

You conveniently ignore some of Cerrato's blunders.

Remember those defensive linemen we had out there last year who could not stop an Ivy League school running game? Who assembled that crew - outside of Bruce Smith who was Danny Boy's baby?

Who managed the cap such that they were forced to get rid of Dan Wilkenson? Wilkenson is not very good but he was and is a whole lot better than anything they put in behind him last year?

Who went out and did the "investigating" to assure the team that Darryl Russell was "reformed" so they could bring him in here?

Who gave up a draft choice for Lionel Daulton?

Who gave up a draft choice to the Saints for one of their useless DTs who stunk in spades here all last year?

Who discovered Man-Mountain Kenyatta Jones? (He worked out pretty well here.)

Wasn't Vinnie here to help orchestrate the Jeff George era in Washington? I think he was.

Who ran Stephen Davis out of town? Vinnie? or Spurrier? Davis is not as good as Portis, but he might have been just a tad better than what the team was left with last year in Canidate, Morton and Cartwright.

Oh yeah, who traded for Canidate? That worked out really well.

I don't think Vinnie is worth the salary they pay him but I'll admit he has done a few things right. But for you to say that "the only bad move we have made talent wise in the last 3 years is Brunell" is hiding your head in the sand.