[sportscurmudgeon]

smootsmack:

You hit that one on the head. The asumption here always is that the Redskins are brimming over with talent and that it is the stupid coaches and/or the corrupt referees that are preventing the team from winning.

People say we have a WR corps that is in the top three of the league.

Portis was supposed to be the best RB in the NFC according to posters here.

Cooley was going to be a beast and make everyone forget about Jeremy Shockey in the NFC East. (Note: most everyone outside NY has already forgotten about Shockey because he is the single most overhyuped and over-rated player in the league at the moment.)

Patrick Ramsey's stats in his first umpteen starts show that he is better at this point than Brett Favre and Peyton Manning were so obviously he'll be at least their equal.

And so on and so on...

The sorry fact is that there is no team here. There are a bunch of "name recognition players" who continue to play for their own "names" and "stats" but with not nearly enough role players to do all the other things that have to be done to win football games. THE TALENT ISN'T SUFFICIENT because the team has been built on a faulty model.

And who is responsible for the model? Danny Boy or Vinnie Boombatz? You make the call...