Gibb's press confrence.

Have faith in Gibbs.
We still are missing a back that can bang out short yards behind a good healthy offensive line. I'm not opposed to an older bigger back like Alstott. If we can find a young bruiser for cheap let's get him. But we do need a short yardage back. So many times we settled for a FGA instead of 7 pts.
Pieces of the puzzle will be worked well in the offseason. If anything don't exclude the possibility of Brunell being a SB MVP!
GO SKINS!

I am really interested to see what Gibbs is going to do in the off-season from a playcalling, offensive philosophy point of view. Given his past, I have no doubt that he can make changes. I have slowly come to the conclusion that the offense he ran in the 80's will not put up the same type of numbers in the 00's, even if well executed.

I am holding out hope that we will improve next year based mainly on the continuity of good player coaching. By this, I mean coaching that works hard to lead players and that players respect even if they disagree with the play-calling. Gibbs 2.2 will be a better TEAM than Spurrier 1.2. Whether they will play better is the question.

A lot of next year's improvement will depend on Gibbs adapting a more aggressive downfield approach while still "establishing the run". I remember Gibbs saying early on that he actually liked some of Spurrier's offense but the most important thing was to protect the QB. I am not sure what system you install with the players on hand that 1) establishing the run 2) aggressively attack downfield and 3) protecting the QB; I do believe that Gibbs will leave no stone unturned and adopt whatever strategy he thinks will work best regardless of his past theories.

Right now, I am sooooo depressed over the Skins. I just don't know if a) the O-Line can be improved in the offseason, even with the return of Jansen (Is he next year's messiah? I don't think so - but watch how many people here will count on his return turning the line around); b) can Ramsey be the QB we hope he is - will he ever see the entire field? c) Is it the play-calling, probably in part -Is it the execution, again probably in part.

All I know is - I once more have to live in Baltimore and face the ridicule of my co-workers as the Skins struggle, yet again, to a double digit losing season.

I hope Gibbs can turn it around but I am beginning to wonder how.

AAAAAAAAAAAArggghh. I hate loving the Skins.

nice post skinsguy

I just don't think we have all the parts Gibbs needs on offense to make it run the way he wants and the injury to Jansen really crippled us...........Give Gibbs a chance. The defensive side of the house has been playing great....we just need a few more tweaks on the offense.
After Gibbs left the first time what other coach has impressed other than Schottenheimer got us to a .500 record and that was THE BEST.....yet, players were complainign to Snyder about Marty.........so who ya going to get........some of the top knotch assistants who've become head coaches haven't fared so well this year either.....and even Parcells and the Cowboys have fallen.....Let's give Gibbs a little more time please..............

With all the conservative playcalling and all the bad offensive events last Sunday, the Skins led with less than two minutes to play. The defense was on the field and if anyone here thinks that is not the strength of the 2004 Washington Redskins, that person needs to takehis head out of his butt.

And they lost.

So, was that Gibbs' fault? Or Gregg Williams' fault?

NO, NO! NO!!!

The team was in a position to win; the defense had been called. The players BLEW THE COVERAGE!! (I'm being polite here because I've watched that play about 8 times and it was actually only 1 player who blew the coverage and lost the game!) The coaches did their job and did it well enough to win a poorly played game if the defense - and particularly one of the defense's icons - simply does what he is supposed to do. He didn't and they lost the game.

Go back to the Cleveland game. They had that game won and the defense was there and allowed a "length of the field drive" in the final minutes to lose the game. Gregg Williams didn't do that; the players on defense did that.

Go back to first Dallas game. Skins have the ball 1st and goal at the Dallas one-yard line. Three tries - two were power runs and one pass as I recall - and nothing good happened. Field goal gets 3 points. Dallas later had the ball first and goal at the Skins' one-yard line. First play is a TD and Dallas scores 7. Final difference in score was 3 points. Now who didn't get the ball into the end zone from the one-yard line? Gibbs? Bugel? Not a chance.

This team is 5-10 because it has players living on reputations and others trying to achieve their potential. The first players are not doing nearly as well as they used to do and the second players have not yet accomplished squadoosh. Of the 22 starters, about 10 fall in that category and that is a recipe for losing twice for each win.

It's the players that forged this record...

You're right SC! While certainly there are situations where the playcalling could have been tweaked, the players are who win and lose the game. If not for one play, on mistake or one penality call, we could have a much better record and the playoffs would have been a shoe in for us. But, its would've could've should've. I'm all ready for next year...