Report: Grossman Starting on Sunday

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Originally Posted by Hail to the Redskins

How about this...

* Our defense has been great this year... huge improvement from 2009 in the 4-3.
* Randy Moss is a worse WR than Anthony Armstrong.
* Housh & Moss were given huge contracts with their new teams. (I could've SWORN they both got vet mins after being released... looked it up... umm yep that is fact... but eh... who cares about that?).
* Mike Shanahan's handling of McNabb's benching against Detroit wasn't too much of a mess.

You know... I think... after a while.... it's really idiotic to argue OPINIONS. They are opinions. When someone other than yourself puts them on a message board... do you have to try and prove them wrong? Is that what a message board is? I thought I was just venting my opinion... didn't realize this was a place to attempt to act like the smartest football evaluator in the history of man.... maybe my idea of a fan message board is all wrong.... I guess I'll stand corrected.

Since when is telling someone they are wrong out of line on a discussion board? If you just want to feel warm and fuzzy about your beliefs, then not posting them is the best way to ensure that.

There's not even great evidence that you are wrong, re: our defense, as our run defense ranking is down significantly from last year while our pass defense...is similar. That was supposed to be a positive trade-off, but there's been no trade. It's just been a decline in run defense. The trade off has been less pass rush for better coverage, instead of better coverage for less run defense. That suggests a problem in the personnel on the front.

I can assure you those problems are named McIntosh, Golston, and Kemoeatu, and Orakpo is a liability against the run who was protected by the scheme last year. We have more blockers on Fletcher right now than ever before. That can be blamed on the 3-4, but independent of scheme, I'm looking at McIntosh and Golston and Kemo not doing their jobs in any scheme. Gap defense is gap defense. If we're bad at it, we're bad at it. Doesn't matter where you stand before the play, you need to control your gap.