I'm seriously considering just discontinuing this item for the rest of the season for several reasons. For starters, I was preoccupied during most of this game. I was doing housework with my dad, cleaning dryer vents, minor repairs, etc. By the time I sat down to watch the game, the score was already 13-0 and I just watched Buffalo go up 20-0. Second, this team not only is terrible, hurt, and banged up, I'm beginning to think that they don't care. John Beck got sacked 9 times...by a team that had a total of 4 for the entire season coming into this game. Look, I know the offensive line is banged up and missing the entire left side, but 9 sacks? Give me a break. When you concede 9 sacks, you just don't care. The offensive line is just there to get their paychecks. Troy Aikman doesn't really impress me as a color guy, but several times in the second half I heard him note that there seemed to be no sense of urgency with the way the Redskins were playing...and he was right. It was as if the Shanahans had just conceded defeat before they even took the field. Perhaps they are scared of more injuries. Perhaps the Shanahans don't really have a clue. Perhaps this rampant nepotism that has seemed to plague Redskins' coaching staffs in the last decade is finally catching up with them. I don't care how well John Beck of Rex Grossman get the playbook, the playbook stinks! I know Kyle had success in Houston, but so would I if I had Matt Schaub and Andre Johnson in the huddle! We don't have Schaub and Johnson. As a result, we get shut out...SHUT OUT!!!!!
As depressing as this sounds, it's really not all that bad. Nobody (myself included) expected anything out of this team this year. I am happy that Shanahan cleaned out the locker room of all the garbage, and the team started the season well as a result. Unfortunately, good feelings can only get you so far. Remember that my season prediction was 4-12. Like I said last week, the 3-1 start looks like it was just a ruse, a false sense of hope to get stubborn mules like myself watching the game. We still have 3 wins. My 4-12 prediction looked pretty foolish after the 3-1 start. Now it looks pretty good. Looking at the schedule going forward, we will probably be big underdogs every game the rest of the way, starting next week against San Francisco. You could make the case that the way we're playing, we will not win again for the rest of the season.
I hate to say this, especially after just 7 games, but I feel like it's time to just mail it in and start thinking about the draft, especially if the organization does not really seem to care about winning this year anymore. 3-13 right now does not look like it will get us a top 3 pick, which is a shame because the top 3 players in the draft next year look like they are going to be franchise quarterbacks...and we could use one. I'm not going to say here that a quarterback is what we need, it's one of many things we need. We need offensive line depth. We need better receivers. As long as they stay healthy, we do have a good stable of running backs. On defense, we need a secondary overhaul...and I'm sorry but DeAngelo Hall better not be a part of it. I'd cut him tomorrow if we had somebody to replace him. As I said though, it's not all bad. It's going to take a few years, but slowly but surely we are building a solid team for the future. We still have a lot of dead weight to cut, but that's why we have a scouting department...at least I hope we still have a scouting department. Just because we are now stockpiling picks does not mean we're putting them to good use. Last draft was a good one. I like Roy Helu (who I feel will have serious fantasy keeper potential, Leonard Hankerson (as long as he can hold onto the ball), and especially Ryan Kerrigan (of course). We need players, good, solid players. The coaching staff needs talent that can be molded, not talent that already fits a system. If we can have drafts in the next couple years like we had in 2011, you watch, we'll be good again and we could be very well be playing the Super Bowl in New York in 2014. OK...perhaps a bit of a stretch, but at least I'm giving it 3 years and not 1.
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