[sportscurmudgeon]

A couple of comments if I may:


1. Adam Archuletta is not 14 years old any more. He's not going to get faster than he is now. By the time you reach adulthood and your late 20s, you are as fast as you are going to be on a football field. He has as much chance of increasing his IQ by 30% as he does of decreasing his time in the 40-yard dash by 10%. The safety position is not one that demands great speed, but when you ask the safety to do as much man-coverage as this scheme did to Archuletta last year, he damned well better be able to run with the receivers he's asked to cover. And he couldn't; and he won't next year either if they do the same things with him. Gregg Williams (remember, the second "g" stands for genius) better damned well figure out how to use Archuletta differently next year or there will be a $10M signing bonus guy covering punts and kickoffs and not much more.


2. Somoene suggested that Archuletta may have a "chronic back injury". If that's so, then expecting him to get any better is really dumb. Chronic back injuries don't get better in the collision sport that is NFL football.


3. I didn't notice any of the Skins' players being horribly out of condition or having run out of gas at the end of the year. So, I'm not sure why the idea of changing up the workout program and modifying it by six or seven weeks makes a lot of sense - - other than to put more responsbility on the players themselves. That would have worked with the team that Gibbs had here in the late 80s; I wonder what leads him or anyone else to believe that this cxast of characters will "get it right". I don't know they'll get it wrong, but what makes anyone think this is a group that only needs to be responsible for itself and then they'll achieve wonderous things...