THE most important off-season/season?

I believe we're operating under the general consensus that we started over after completely revamping the coaching staff before last season...

we did. and unless this season leaves us with very positive, tangible momentum, we're going to again.

I think Gibbs will have a good year. His fear of failuer is to strong for him not to. The guy has been working so hard this off season to fix the offense. :coach: I think we are headed for some fun in 2005.


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I'd put the fact he loves and cares about team over fear of failure...

I agree that it feels like IT has to happen THIS season or we will be bad or horrid for years.

My biggest fear / worry - we remained cursed and just cant get out of the fog / injury / unlucky play / bad call soup we have been in since Mr Mediocrity (Norv) instilled an unwavering spirit of bleh over the team.

However, for the fan, hope springs eternal- My biggest Hope / belief is that we will suprise this year - Special teams will be one of the best in the league and the Offense will get better enough to hold us in there till week 8 when we really start to dominate. Heck- if we had just not given up 35 points in returns (punt and int) we would have been 8-8 last year (beating NYG and Balt).

So even if we just get a little bit better I think 10-6 is very reasonable.....god help us if we get worse

something has to click this season, or we go back to R.F.K.

i blame FedEx.

If the defense stays the same and the offense improves a bit (which i think it will) we'll be looking at a far better season.

Ramsey will probably get comfortable with the new wideouts....better yet, all the people we picked up want to be Redskins.....and we cut or got rid of everyone who didn't wanna be one.

I believe that we took gibbs coming as starting from scratch, things are starting to go the way he wants it.. perhaps he just doesnt have all the desired pieces yet? i love patrick to death but is he gibbs ultimate choice at qb? will we see this team flourish until that spot is taken?

Gibbs obviously wasn't happy with the offense last year....maybe he's rebuilding it into an offense that he sees fit? We Don't exactly need awesome all-stars...just a good group of guys that play well as a team.

When your coach/savior is 64, every year is a big year. Expectations are starting to get blown up again and eveyrone is forgetting that it takes at least two years to turn a team like the skins around - I really don't expect much of a record this year, I will be happy with a competitive 8-8.

BUT - Its way to early to say this year is make or break, because the fact is, two years is not enough time to turn this team around. Now years 3-5 is another story. Last season was a HUGE reality check for me, I was screaming 10-6 and the playoffs! Yet is was so damn obvious that my expectations were way to unrealistic!

As far as rebuilding, I mean, who doesn't do that to some extent every year?In Gibbs first stint with the skins starting in 1981 we were 8 and 8 winning 8 of our last 11 games. In 1982 there was a strike and I would call that a throw out year as far as a building year. In 1983 we won the SB. I would not say that it takes more than two years to build a team,. We have the talent its just time to execute and get the most out of our players. Someone also mentioned that the next two years will be a salery cap hell for the skins. That has been said for years now and we have no way of knowing the stratges they have for this. If its like the past years we have dealt fine with the cap. If Snyder knows anything its how to deal with numbers. We go 10 and 6 this year winning a wild card spot.

I say before we condemn the coaching staff and this up and coming season, we should actually wait and see what happens in the season first. Every season is a new season....