Wilbon's article

[Bergman14]

As Wilbon hinted at, its the tone of the organization set at the top, with Dan Snyder. As long as things continue going the way they are, I can see us ever being a championship caliber team. This is football, there is a salary cap, this is the one sport where spending money does not lead to success, you need to have a solid organization with STABILITY, not to mention a GM. Im just afraid with all the great young talent we have had over the last few years we are really missing out on an opportunity

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by Bergman14

you need to have a solid organization with STABILITY, not to mention a GM. Im just afraid with all the great young talent we have had over the last few years we are really missing out on an opportunity

So we have great young talent yet we need a GM?

[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...

[Paintrain]

I don't think Snyder will do anything drastic this offseason. He respects Gibbs too much to strip him of any power and trusts him to right the ship as well as to win eventually. I can see them maybe cutting Samuels and/or Brunell but there's not a lot of shopping to be done on the free agent market. The only splashy thing I can see them doing is if Pennington somehow isn't signed by the end of the season and/or isn't franchised for some reason Snyder and Gibbs going after him and trading Ramsey for a pick. Other than that, personnel wise, I don't know of anything needing an overhaul. We need a new center and some depth along the defensive line but other than that I can't see where they will greatly improve by getting new players.