[sportscurmudgeon]

Folks:

The media is not out to get the Redskins or the Redskins' FO. Imagine for a moment a situation where:

1. Andy Reid announces that he really wants 100% participation in the voluntary off season sessions from the Eagles. [Gibbs did that; no one had a gun in his mouth forcing him to do that.]

2. Eagles' FO has an arbitration hearing on a grievance staring them in the face from Brian Dawkins - - their perennial All-Pro defender. [Skins have that happening.]

3. Terrell Owens wanted out of his contract and the Eagles' FO found a way to delay the process such that it cost them the maximum salary cap hit for the team AND then traded him for a lesser WR who is holding out to get a new contract. [Compare and contrast with LC and S. Moss.]

4. Voluntary workouts are held and 3 Eagles decide to skip the sessions and work out on their own and their names are McNabb, Kearse and Westbrook. [I know they aren't all "working out together with their buds in Miami" like the Skins' absentees are, but think about it...]

Don't you think the media would be asking the question, "What the hell are those people doing there in Philly?"


Well, that's not so far off from what's been going on here. Except the Eagles have been in the Super Bowl and/or the NFC Championship Game for the last four years while the Redskins have been sitting at home with their thumbs up their collective butts for the last four Januarys.

As Ricky Ricardo used to say to Lucy, this FO here has a "lot of 'splainin to do".