[sportscurmudgeon]

NFC East guards better than Randy Thomas? Chris Snee and Shawn Andrews - and maybe Leonard Davis next year but the jury is still way out on that last one. Take off the burgandy and gold colored glasses and you'd trade Thomas for either Snee or Andrews even-up any day of the week.

The Skins don't need - nor have they ever had or will they ever have - 5 ProBowlers on the OL; that's not the point. But they do need 5 guys who are all above average at their positions and that's not what they have now.

As to the statistics that tell everyone that this OL is a great unit - and most particularly to the stats for an OL which are mostly concocted - let me assure you that stats are for teams that finish 5-11. The Indy Colts' fans aren't parsing the stats of their OL; neither are the fans of the Bears, Saints, Pats, Chargers etc. As a unit, what teams in the playoffs this year were so much worse than the Skins on the OL? Maybe there was one; I can't think of one.

And if the Skins could indeed have run the ball don the throats of any opponent they may have faced, how come they didn't do just that? The reason is not that the play calling was stupid - - even though it was stupid more than a couple of times during the season. It was because the team couldn't actually do that. If they could and had, it would have kept the less than fully competent defense off the field for longer periods of time... And maybe the team would have been 7-9 instead of 5-11.