Redskins vs. Jets Game Thread

[REDSKINS4ever]

Originally Posted by Angry

What then are you telling your starters? "We have no hope for getting better this year so we are going to plug this unproven guy in to see what he's got." The coach knows what he has in Crompton he watches him practice on a daily basis. To turn over this offense to a rookie who has only been running the scout team ofense would be setting up the entire team for failure. Top it off with our starting left tackle being suspended and I assume that you wish watch the guy get killed.

While it is understandable that the season is at a loss in terms of playoff hopes there is still hope that those who aren't suspended get more time to gell together on both offense and defense. I am not opposed to giving some young guys a chance to shine and show what they can do on the field, but the football has to go through the QB on almost every offensive snap. You could jeapordize the growth of every other player on the field if that position isn't somewhat competent. Perhaps if Crompton were already running the offense with the 1's and 2's then I would probably say "give him a shot" however, giving a practice squad QB a baptism by fire is not exactly what I would consider a sound decision.

While I do not like Grossman and I know that he isn't our future he is the best option that we have right now. I just hope that we see more of good Rex than bad Rex for the rest of the season. I am willing to speculate that even Bad Rex is better than any form of Crompton right now.

Okay. That made lots of sense. But unless Mike Shanahan was planning all along for the offense to be inept, I really strongly disagree that he should not have placed Grossman and Beck atop the depth chart. The only logical explanation I can think of is Shanahan wanted to purposefully sabotage the season in order to draft within the top 5.

[Paintrain]

Originally Posted by REDSKINS4ever

Okay. That made lots of sense. But unless Mike Shanahan was planning all along for the offense to be inept, I really strongly disagree that he should not have placed Grossman and Beck atop the depth chart. The only logical explanation I can think of is Shanahan wanted to purposefully sabotage the season in order to draft within the top 5.

Sorry but that's just dumb. No coach goes into a season planning to lose as much as possible for the sake of the next draft. As much as we don't like it, Mike and Kyle thought that with an improved defense and his experience in the system Rex would be a competent QB. I doubt they sat down and said, hmm, hopefully Rex will turn the ball over at a rate of twice per game and we suck. No, they hoped his experience would curb his tendency to make stupid plays and be reckless or that Beck would turn whatever teams saw to make him a 2nd round pick into actual production. It didn't happen. Guess what, coaches miss on players ALL THE TIME! The moronic thinking of uninformed and clueless fans about this is damn near as embarrassing as this season has been.