Out of state Redskins fan rant….Parental Guidance Suggested

[Summo]

Being born, raised and still living on Long Island NY and being a Redskins fan since I was eight I’ve taken my fare share of ball busting over the years. Warranted or not it comes with the territory of being a Redskins fan in Giant and Jet country and I’m cool with that. But over the last week since “The Injury” it has become insufferable. The ball busting hasn’t been this bad since ’86 when we lost to the Giants three times.

Where I work I am the manager of the shipping/receiving department and my cubicle is in close proximity to the receiving area. My boss was cool enough to give me free rein over the choice of colors that I painted my area, so needless to say I chose to have my area painted Maroon. I have multiple pieces of Redskins art, an RG3 poster and a six foot ****ing Redskin Helmet above my desk that is visible to anyone who enters the door. Every day during the season I wear some article of Redskins clothing, whether it’s a jacket, a hat, a polo on causal Friday, hell half my right arm is covered in Redskins tattoos, so I am always representing. Bottom line, everyone who knows me or meets me for the first time doesn’t have to be Sherlock ****ing Holmes to deduce that I am a Redskins fan.


Since Sunday every ****ing Giant fan Mailman, UPS driver, Fed Ex, Sir Speedy, DHL, Water Cooler delivery guy, maintenance worker etc... Has repeated the same thing “I told you he was going to get hurt”, “He can’t be running around like that and not get hurt” “didn’t you know that was going to happen?” It’s like they think I’m the head of the NY Chapter of the Redskins and I should have passed along their fair warnings onto the organization for RG3 to protect himself from injury. If that is the case then I sincerely apologize to the team and the fans for not passing along their suggestions and heed their clairvoyant warnings of certain doom. Some of these assholes are actually glad to see him get hurt, I have one Facebook Giant fan asshole friend (or should I say a “Giant”asshole Facebook friend) actually pause his DVR when his knee was twisting, take a cell phone pic and post it with the caption, “Running Quarterbacks don’t last or win in the NFL”. What kind of fan revels in another team’s star player getting hurt? I wouldn’t care if RG3 played for Dallas or Philly and got hurt, I wouldn’t celebrate it, athletes like him are good for the sport. For the most part I have always had a respect for the Giants and their fans, not like the Cowboys (they could go 0 and 16 and lose every game by 40 points and they couldn’t suck enough as far as I’m concerned) and in return I have found them to be the same until this. At first when they all started to bestow there infinite wisdom after the fact, I humored them by apologizing for not taking their advice to the team, now I just instruct them to blow me.


Another thing that is getting really old is this crap about second guessing or firing Shanahan over how he handled this situation. I have been a head coach on a much more minuscule level as I coached Pop Warner for seven years and an adult Flag team that featured three guys who were on NFL pre season squads and I know from that low level experience that the head coach has a lot on his plate and if he trusts the player at their word that they are alright and can go on then that is all there is to it. The bigger question that I haven’t heard much talk about is the play calling in the game. Why did no one ask Shanahan at his press conference why Morris had only 16 carries in the game after he has ridden that Hoss all season? If I was Shanny and noticed RG3 limping badly during that second drive I would have thrown out the read option, gone I formation and asked Morris to shove the ball up his ass and sit on it for the rest of the game. Whether they got first downs or not, they could have taken valuable minutes off the clock each possession and played a field possession game and nursed that ****ing two touchdown lead to Atlanta.


And enough shit about the field and **** Pete Caroll and his whining about how shitty it was, does anyone complain about the 12th man being too loud that the visiting teams can’t hear the signals in Seattle? If they do then **** them too, that’s what home field advantage is about. How many of us played on mud fields when we were kid emulating Riggo busting through the line of scrimmage with mud and dirt on our jerseys, that’s ****ing football, period.


I closing I must admit that I feel a little better and encourage any other out of state fans to think of this thread as a therapy session to air you frustrations and feel free to use bad language as it is therapeutic. Till next time stay classy Warpathers!

[Monkeydad]

Spoken like a true Long Islander!

I can say this, I have a lot of family there.

[Summo]

Then I should have probably spelt Talk Tawk, right? Even I hate they way that sounds.

[That Guy]

yeah, all game i was wondering why RGIII wasn't benched after all the dirt balls and misses, and why morris wasn't running when he averaged like 8ypc in the 1st quarter.

it was a game full of poor decisions, but it was still a good season, and with cousins around i'm really not that worried about the RGIII injury, even though i do think it could have been avoided (and no, it's not cause he's a running quarterback, it's because he insisted on playing with an injury that should have kept him on the bench).

[Monkeydad]

Hey, if you haven't had your cawfee yet, I can forgive you.


I tried reading the wall of text and I think I agree...sick of the people's drama saying to fire Shanahan, or even looking for someone to blame. Griffin is a leader and competitor and wanted to win the game for us after LEADING US TO THE PLAYOFFS. It's football. Men get hurt.

I do not regret anything about the game. Sure, Cousins should have probably come in, but RGIII took us to the playoffs and he needed to be the one to win it for us. Do you want a QB who cares and wants to lead the team or do you want Jay Cutler?

The storm would be happening if Shanny benched him and we still lost. Too many of our fans AND especially the media act like women on their periods, but of course, only after the fact. They over-react to everything.

Remember the idiot who wanted to paint buses with messages for Snyder to sell the team a couple of years ago, when he was finally starting to make solid decisions (like Shanahan and Allen)? Then there's this crap: Fire The Shanahans



Cheer the hell up, Skins fans...we just had an amazing season, won the division title with a 7-game streak, went 5-1 in the division, swept Dallas and Philly and was one single play away from sweeping the Vagiants too. We knocked NJ and Dallas out of the playoffs and probably got Rob Ryan fired. We have two ROY candidates and the brightest future in the NFL...only to get better next season. It's a great time to be a Redskins fan. Stop crying. RGIII will be back and will dominate the league for years.

[bigdaddy2348]

Originally Posted by Monkeydad

Cheer the hell up, Skins fans...we just had an amazing season, won the division title with a 7-game streak, went 5-1 in the division, swept Dallas and Philly and was one single play away from sweeping the Vagiants too. We knocked NJ and Dallas out of the playoffs and probably got Rob Ryan fired. We have two ROY candidates and the brightest future in the NFL...only to get better next season. It's a great time to be a Redskins fan. Stop crying. RGIII will be back and will dominate the league for years.

I agree everyone needs to stop being so gloom and doom . All these people out there speculation in hindsight about taking RGIII out the game. This dude is a player he is not like the other punk QBs we had in DC. Don’t you think for a second that he won’t be in shape and ready before preseason. This man has the killer instinct plus heart and drive and he wants to the GOAT and he won’t let anything stop him. For those doubters…Watch!!!!

[CultBrennan59]

You ask why we didn't keep running the ball with Morris. My answer, although you probably don't want to hear this (just like you don't want the I told you so other teams fans telling you that RG3 was going to get hurt) but Alfred is only effective if Roberts running. Its simple; RG3 runs outside, Alfred runs inside. Once Robert was hurt, what did seattle start doing? filling in the middle with pressure making us run it outside where neither of them were effective at that point.

[Summo]

Originally Posted by CultBrennan59

You ask why we didn't keep running the ball with Morris. My answer, although you probably don't want to hear this (just like you don't want the I told you so other teams fans telling you that RG3 was going to get hurt) but Alfred is only effective if Roberts running. Its simple; RG3 runs outside, Alfred runs inside. Once Robert was hurt, what did seattle start doing? filling in the middle with pressure making us run it outside where neither of them were effective at that point.

Regardless if he was effective or not the attempt should have been made and the read option is ony run a few times, most others are pitches and zone runs anyway.

[That Guy]

Originally Posted by CultBrennan59

You ask why we didn't keep running the ball with Morris. My answer, although you probably don't want to hear this (just like you don't want the I told you so other teams fans telling you that RG3 was going to get hurt) but Alfred is only effective if Roberts running. Its simple; RG3 runs outside, Alfred runs inside. Once Robert was hurt, what did seattle start doing? filling in the middle with pressure making us run it outside where neither of them were effective at that point.

yeah, like during the browns game. or the dallas game. morris can run regardless, we just stopped calling running plays.

[CultBrennan59]

Originally Posted by That Guy

yeah, like during the browns game. or the dallas game. morris can run regardless, we just stopped calling running plays.

Browns game they shut down Alfred until Kirk got hot and started connecting on passes; we kept them off balance then everyone was doing good, even Royster. Dallas was so beat up on defense and the also feared RG3 would tear them up again.

You were saying?

[That Guy]

Originally Posted by CultBrennan59

Browns game they shut down Alfred until Kirk got hot and started connecting on passes; we kept them off balance then everyone was doing good, even Royster. Dallas was so beat up on defense and the also feared RG3 would tear them up again.

You were saying?

yeah, you're right, morris is awful and totally riding RGIII's coat tails. that's the only reason he was the #2 RB this year and #2 in broken tackles... because of RGIII.

seriously, get a life.

[Warren85Ellard]

Great post, Summo. I, too, hate seeing a player get hurt, whether they're a Redskin or not. It also makes me sick to see how many people seem to be delighted by RG3's injury. Hey, what can you expect from Cowboys and Giants fans? I just wish they'd move the **** out of DC/MD/VA.

[CultBrennan59]

Originally Posted by That Guy

yeah, you're right, morris is awful and totally riding RGIII's coat tails. that's the only reason he was the #2 RB this year and #2 in broken tackles... because of RGIII.

seriously, get a life.

First off I never said he's bad. I said he's not nearly as effective without RG3. Lets put our thinking caps on here. If a RB runs between the tackles and the QB runs outside the tackles, thats a wide area to cover, and becomes extremely hard for a defense to defend.

But if you take away one of those guys, the other guy that is playing becomes less effective, because the defense only has to defend one area instead of two areas.

Shanahan knew that if he kept running it with Morris that eventually it was going to be stopped and ineffective and just a hobbled QB throwing inaccurate passes.

Should he have tried it? Sure so that there weren't people saying "Why didn't you run it with Morris?" But it would not have been all that affective. Thats a guarantee. Listen to ESPN and NFLN and hear them tell you all about how Morris is good in large part because Griffin posses that other running threat defenses have to defend.

Think of RG3 as Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen as Alfred Morris. Scottie Pippen wasn't anything special without MJ, but with MJ he was great and one of the best players in the league. I'm trying to dummy this scenario down as good as I can for you so that you can understand football better by using other sport examples.

[BigHairedAristocrat]

Summo, I'd like to read your post, but the long continuous "wall of text" is a bit difficult. Can you break up your post into atleast 5 or 6 paragraphs?

[Monkeydad]

Originally Posted by BigHairedAristocrat

Summo, I'd like to read your post, but the long continuous "wall of text" is a bit difficult. Can you break up your post into atleast 5 or 6 paragraphs?

This is how I felt when I married into a NY family. They speak with walls of text...all at the same time....loudly....with an accent. You'll get used to it.

Summo should post more.



SUMMO - Happy 500th post! Couldn't have been a better #500!