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I think Gibbs is doing this right. He is building a TEAM and that takes more than one off season of personell moves and 9 games. I believe they made a conscious decision to do this right from the beginning. There are a lot of one hit wonders in this league simply because the parity so great. Teams like carolina can have one good year and fall of the face of the earth the next year. Teams like New England are RARE and DIFFICULT to build. It takes time an patience and I think Gibbs is giving us both. I really think it was totally recockulous to expect the Skins to have a good season considering the state of the team Gibbs was getting. I would say if we are playing like this next year then we can start hollering and bitching and moaning about Gibbs but for now we march foward in the direction Gibbs has set knowing full well that he is giving his all and getting the all from a 3 time super bowl head coach is better than any other team in the league right now.
My wishes for our team would be this...continue with Ramsey as QB the rest of this year. He can be a successful QB in this league giving the right situation. That situation is providing adequate protection and play making WRs. I think with Coles healthy next year we are greatly improved since his (currently lost)speed adds an aspect to the offense that is greatly missed.
Our protection will be greatly improved next year as long as we can keep Samuels and they stick with Raymer. That would give us 4/5 of the same line through two seasons. They will of course get Jansen back which is good since he and Thomas have played together before. I expect the line to provide good dividends next year and down the road. They will need to bring in a quality backup also since lacking one this year has been a problem.
On defense they will need to add a speed rusher. Williams has ben successful with the defense this year but I am fearful we are producing with a gimicky defense. Gimicky never works. The best defenses can apply pressure one week with safeties and LBs and sit back the next wekk as needed. Our defense can't sit back against anyone as our DL just has no ability to put pressure on tehe qb adequatly without support from the secondary. We also need some depth at DL.
The biggest thing we need next year is...
health.
This has been a terrible year for the Skins' health. Our defense has played well without Barrow, Arrington, Bowen, Lott, etc..but I think it is reasonable to think they would have been better with these guys in. Rememeber the backups were backups for a reason...they weren't as good as the starters. I think it is reasonable to expect that our defense would have been a much more play making type defense with barrwo and Arrington in there.
The key to next year is Health Health Health
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