Re: Final Thoughts 2008
All you have shown is the futility of this team. JC makes 1, one, just 1 heroic play to Santana Moss and some people think this defines his future?
The 6-2 start wasn't all that impressive. The Skins were pulling it out in the final minutes of every game. JC was still making the same mistakes as in prior years only to be camouflaged by the running game and the defense.
Both offense and defensive lines are old and battered. This has been known for the last 2 years by every fan and sports writer alike yet, The Little Danny and Vinny still refuse to draft for "needs" and go out and draft 2 WR's, a TE and a damn punter. The 2 WR's are either to stupid to learn the offense or they are in constant injury mode, even though some have never played a down this season. That wonderful 6th round pick of a punter cost us a game or two and was finally let go. Our TE, as if we needed to draft one, being that we already have a "Pro Bowler" as our starter, has contributed squat this season and our one and only O-lineman that Vinny managed to scrape up in the draft, didn't play a down this season.
We have a Defensive Coach who thinks that sacking the QB is over rated and has almost cost us at least 5 of those first 6 wins by playing that damn "Prevent Defense" and then has the nerve to deny it in post game interviews, with an attitude.
We have an owner and I guess what you would call a GM, who seem to dictate to our Head Coach, who to play and that would be Jason Campbell. They invested a couple of draft picks for him and seem determined, at the expense of the team, to make him into the "Franchise QB". It also seems that our Head Coach, Jim Zorn, has played along with this fallacy thus his announcing that JC would be the starter even before looking at any film of his play on the field last year.
And then we come down to the Head Coach search last year. It seems the only one person desperate enough to take the job was Fassell but after the uproar by the fan base, The Little Danny had a change of heart. He tried to lure other big names to coach here but to no avail as no one was willing to work under a meddling owner and a so called "GM" who is the butt of jokes through out the league.
After being turned down by numerous candidates, the only option left was...Jim Zorn, who was brought here as a first time offensive coordinator (no prior play calling in the NFL) and to "coach up" Jason Campbell into a legitimate starting QB.
His coaching up of JC seems to have worked to a point but JC still makes the same mistakes and still can't read a defense and seems to be more afraid of making a turnover than being a leader and scoring TD's. This is as good as JC gets and again, Jim Zorn tells the media that JC is the starter and that no matter how bad he may play in preseason games, coupled with how good Collins and Colt may do in those preseason games, JC will still be the starter.
So in conclusion, I see nothing encouraging and I think we are far from being "on track". I just see the same mediocre players. The same mediocre coaching from a man who is desperate to keep his job. The same mediocre owner who doesn't know jack shit about running a football team and a joke of a GM who is nothing more than a "yes man" to the mediocre owner. I wish and hope that I'm wrong and that you are right but nothing this ownership has done has convinced me otherwise.
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