You're Dan Snyder, what's your move?

I would bet any coach looking at this roster would take one look at the D and say, I can work with that unit. The offense needs work, but I can win games with this D. No need to make changes just for the sake of change.

Don't piss on the D. If the Offense could stay on the field for more than 3 downs than the D would shut teams down.

NO, I'm not giving the defense a free pass. This so called top 5 defense can't get off the field when it counts. They have played 5 of the worse teams in football and I'm not seeing a dominating effort. They are losing the time of possession battle and defense on third down is not that good. If they are a top 5 defense they should be creating easy scoring opportunities for the offense as opposed to allowing teams to hold onto the ball forever.

Yeah...we could technically have an average defense that has just kicked the asses of weaker opponents.

We'll have a better list of defensive members who'll look like they can stay when the season is done I guess.

This really is simple, there is only one step required:

1. Muster all the resources you have left to hire the very best GM possible. Include in the contract that they have 100% autonomy for X number of years where the owner will only request to be informed but will have no other day to day responsibilities.

I would keep Jim Zorn, he is not over his head he just tried to do everything with the offense, His job is to be the HC, not the OC or signal caller. I would keep him to keep some sort of continuity on the offense (something that this team has lacked for a long time). Next I would hire Mike Holmgren to be the GM and give him total control of all personnel decisions. Hiring Holmgren would not only help bring in the right talent, but he would be a security blanket to Zorn. Everybody works better when they feel secure about their situation. Lastly, I would let Vinny Cerrato stick around and milk me for my money for a little while longer...every billionaire needs a good "Yes man" and a racquetball partner (Mr Burns and Smithers).

Much of the youth & talent on the team is on defense. That side of the ball has been rebuilt since the disaster year of 06. Fletcher will have to replaced soon, maybe he's got 1 more year. Guys like Daniels & Wynn, Griff, they're not likely to be here next year even if this team wins 10 in a row to go 12-4!

Overall, the d has a strong core of guys at or near their prime, while the offense has several old guys that can't make it & several young guys that would have a hard time cracking any nfl starting lineup. It may sound crazy, but the positions that arguably could be left alone are wr & TE. I say that knowing full well what a disappointment Davis, Kelly & Thomas have been to this point. At least for another year the prudent thing to do would be focus on the O line & see if the kids develop as playmakers.

Guys like Fletcher and Haynesworth can't really afford to be on standby for the next 2 to 3 years.

The stress for our solution should be to rebuild. Though there may be some holdovers, ultimately our offense and defense should look drastically different when we are done.


Enough with the patchwork solutions. Bring in players that our next coach will need in his personally crafted scheme and not that of our previous coach.

I disagree in blowing up the Defense. This is a pretty young unit, and is only one or two players away from being elite. It may be time to make Jerry Gray the DC and let him have his way with the staff so that side of the ball is completely in his image.

Offense should be gutted and rebuilt for sure.

I would bet any coach looking at this roster would take one look at the D and say, I can work with that unit. The offense needs work, but I can win games with this D. No need to make changes just for the sake of change.My question is: what do you do with Fletcher? He's still a very productive player (not as good as last year), and absolutely critical for this defense to be above average. But he has two years left on his contract, they're expensive years, and he will be 35 next season. With Orakpo pretty much requiring a move to DL, that entire unit needs to be rebuilt.

So how many draft resources do you put in that position considering how much help the O needs? And with Fletcher, who is a pretty darn good player who we are still losing with, do you cut bait with him at the end of the year and just let the defense take it's lumps?

I disagree in blowing up the Defense. This is a pretty young unit, and is only one or two players away from being elite. It may be time to make Jerry Gray the DC and let him have his way with the staff so that side of the ball is completely in his image.

Offense should be gutted and rebuilt for sure.


What???

You want coaching members from this regime on our team next year when the new coach comes on???

Were you by any chance in the Snyder's suite on Sunday?

Just to clarify I'm talking about next year when Jim Zorn is long gone, along with Vinny hopefully, and new head coach comes to town with his own staff, which is traditionally done by head coaches although you wouldn't see that as a Skins fan because of our bass-ackwards front office.

What???

You want coaching members from this regime on our team next year when the new coach comes on???

Were you by any chance in the Snyder's suite on Sunday?

Just to clarify I'm talking about next year when Jim Zorn is long gone, along with Vinny hopefully, and new head coach comes to town with his own staff, which is traditionally done by head coaches although you wouldn't see that as a Skins fan because of our bass-ackwards front office.

Yea, hopefully that will be the decision our new GM and coach make. After all, we've been down that road before. I like Jerry Gray too but thats the decision of the new coach/Gm.