[sportscurmudgeon]

I've been saying for a month here that the WRs on the team at the moment are not real good. Now we see that the coaching staff is coming to a similar conclusion and may be looking for some changes. So much for the assertions here that the Skins WRs are among the top three in the NFL.

Here is the dilemma. The Redskins cannot formulate a sensible plan for their WRs until they make a judgement/guess/prognostication on the most important issue facing the WR corps:


Will Lavernaeus Coles' toe be better for all of next season?


That is the $64,000 question. Because when he is healthy, he is a weapon on offense that causes the defensive coordinators of tne other teams to focus attention on. With his sore toe, he has lost the only real advantage he has in this league and that is his speed. He is now running slower than most other WRs making him easy to defend. That' not because he's a bad guy; it's because he's hurt. This is the second year of this injury and so the problem facing the team is simple. Will they have "fast Coles" or "slow Coles" next season. "Fast Coles" means build the pass offense around him; "slow Coles" means build it aournd someone else and realize that you have a lot of salary cap tied up in "slow Coles" and he can't be your #`1 WR.

Other questions abound. Can Taylor Jacobs actually play at the NFL level? I don't mean pre-season silly games and I don't mean garbage time at the end of a game where the outcome is not in doubt. They have to find out if he can be on the field for 75% of the offensive snaps and not embarrass himself or the team. He has NOT YET SHOWN he can do that.

Can McCants get out of whatever doghouse he got himself into? I have no idea what he did to get himself demoted to the point where he didn't dress out for half the year, but he has to get out of that status immediately or they have to get rid of him. A WR in sweats is of ZERO value to the team on Sunday.

Gardner is simply a waste of skin. If they keep him, it is only because they want to see if he can be motivated to do really well in his "walk year" when he is looking to get a big contract so he can go back to being lazy and unreliable. If they build the offense around him, the Skins will be lucky to score 18 points per game next year.

So, tell me how Coles feet will be next year and I'll come up with a plan for the WR corps, but until the doctors have their diagnosis, there is no point in trying to make any plans.