The Redskins Stink Up Another One
It’s time for Joe Gibbs, or someone very close to Gibbs to get the axe. Their season is, for all intents and purposes, over. They can not make the playoffs at this point with a 5-6 record. Gibbs and his staff needed to whip the team up into something resembling a sense of urgency and they didn’t. You’d be hard-pressed to find a worst first quarter than the ‘Skins played today. Today was a must-win game and they came out as if they were playing a preseason game. That is unacceptable. That is a failure of leadership. There is, right now, no leadership on the field and none on the sidelines or the coaching booth.
There is no way that the Redskins should have found themselves behind to a team relying on Bruce Gradwhatevertheheckhisnameis to win a game. No excuse.
I had pretty much chalked his game up as a loss right about mid-week when I heard absolutely no competitive fire from anyone not named Jason Campbell. No one was seriously ticked off. No one was talking about beating Tampa bay convincingly. No one was taking their teammates to task for screwing up the week before, when they could have beaten Dallas and given themselves a little momentum going against the division-leading Bucs. Only Jason Campbell seemed really bothered that they could have turned their season around entirely and let the Cowboys take the win away from them with barely a whimper of protest.
Right now, I’m not sure the ‘Skins are capable of winning another game this year. Every other team they’re playing has some important part of their season at stake, except perhaps the Bills. But Buffalo has demonstrated that they have at least a little pride in themselves and the team. Short of one or two players on this Redskins team, I can’t say the same for them.
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Jimmie,
I stayed on the positive side last week in the loss to Dallas, although that loss was more serious with it being Dallas. Today was a poor showing, although I believe differently from you that this is where a "cliche" can be used. "Players must play the game on the field not the coaches" The second half showed a game plan which if excuted would have won this game, the supposed stars of the redskins..Moss and Portis did not perform. The 4th and one, gaining no yards, shows no heart or which team has more heart. To me even in free agency era, you still need to build a team with strong team players who will step-up. To me the future looks good with the coaches, additional changes are not needed but the players need to play with the desire to win.
jimmie I feel that as a team we need to learn how to win and that is why we keep losing close games because as a team we dont know how to win. I feel the coaching staff except maybe the defense is too lacks on their players, Gregg Williams is constantly getting into the face of defensive players will the offense just seem to mess up and have a seat on the sidelines, Im not ready to give up on Gibbs but something needs to change the teams attitude or some personnell coaching or players
Right now, Gibbs is setting the tone, which is entirely passive. There's no fire in this team – no meanness.
The real problem is that so many close losses might lead upper management to believe that they just need to make a tweak or two to get the team to where they need to be. Tweaks won't help. The team is dysfunctional at its core.
If the trading deadline hadn't passed (it has passed, hasn't it?), I'd be shopping Portis around for a defensive lineman and a second rounder right now.