Post Game Thoughts

[Redskins_P]

Originally Posted by irish

From everything I hear and read, it sounds like defenses view playing against PR as taking lunch money from a school kid. That is not a good sign. Hopefully PR can develop but skins fans cannot blindly call PR the future of this team because the way he is playing now that future looks to be average and mistake prone.

irish, where did you "hear" and "read" that? I would really like to know who said that.


It's funny, just a week ago Ramsey was our QB of the future. Now all of a sudden, he can't read defenses, he's nervous in the pocket, and he throws too many INT's.

This is why I hesitate to come to this site sometimes. Because one day we love somebody and the minute they make a mistake, everyone rips them.
I can't believe someone here started a thread comparing Ramsey to Heath freaking Shuler! Come on man, give me a break.

[irish]

I read it more than once in the Wash Post and I heard Wilbon say it on the Tony Kornheiser show just this morning. In fact I've heard him say it for about 3 weeks now.

last week the entire team looked great because they played the worst team in the league and the skins are not quite that bad. The O looked way better last week than they really are so of course everyone was certain PR et al are future pro bowlers.

[Shane]

I buy the idea of letting Ramsey play out the rest of the season, but what I don't buy is that he wins the starting job for next year unless he shows himself to be a superb quarterback. He doesn't get the mantle in my view just by avoiding "stumbling mightily." That's not a winning standard. I don't want the stability of sticking with someone who doesn't earn the job.

For the sake of the team, who plays has to be based on performance. That is the message to send because then players know that they play based on factors they control. Marvin Lewis didn't do that this year when he just handed the job to one player who hadn't earned it. The team went down. It was the message of saying my judgment is more important than your opportunity to prove yourself. It was an egotistical move.

I think you set a period up where the competition runs, from this time to that time. If you don't want to go until the last preseason game for whatever reason, that's fine, just pick a time, set aside preconceptions and prejudices, and let the players play, and let the player who plays best win the job.

As far as the concern about who gets 90% of the snaps in practice during the regular season - that to me doesn't seem relevant to the basic need to let the players play themselves into a job.

I agree that Gibbs should make the decision in that he is the judge; there simply has to be a fair, equal playing field where players are chosen based on how they perform not on other factors.