Taylor Out!

The Redskins today cut DE Jason Taylor after one injury riddled season of sub par play. He was asked to participate in 25 days of off season workouts with the team as a condition of his return for an $8 million payday.

I guess it takes more than that to make an old dog perform old tricks.

I thought he was a dolphin, but it seems to me he floundered around and lost big money.

A New Year - A New Hope

Happy New Year!

With our Redskins out of the post season, there's not much to do in Hogland but look forward to next season, and hope to hell the Eagles and Giants get eliminated quickly.

With things seeming to have settled on the Head Coach front, Jim Zorn does get to stay put after all, we can now start picking apart what went wrong, who needs to be replaced and what positions definitely need some fresh blood.

It's my opinion, and has been all season, that we seriously need to upgrade our aging offensive and defensive lines. These guys are great, they play their hardest, but age is catching up to them. Pete Kendall, Jon Jansen, Andre Carter, Casey Rabach, Ray Thomas, Jason Taylor....these guys are in their early to mid 30's. If they were situational players, I'd say keep 'em, but as starters going against younger, faster and more aggressive players for four quarters a week, it's just not a good situation.

I remember the days of the Over The Hill Gang, and I remember they did great things, but I also remember the downward spiral they found themselves in as those guys got hurt, tired and left the team. We need a youth movement, we need guys that haven't accomplished much yet, someone who's hungry every snap of every game.

I look for upgrades on both sides of the ball where the guys put their hands in the dirt and lock horns. There's no doubt that we need to shore up some secondary positions, develop some talent in the defensive backfield, but I think our most pressing issue is protecting OUR quarterback and getting after opponents' quarterbacks.

I say this with the utmost respect for the players we have and for what they've done, but they are getting just a little long in the tooth. Bugel needs some players that he can coach from the ground up, and put in HIS style of line play.

Vinny, however, is already talking about drafting skill positions on offense. Like we need anymore receivers and tight ends or running backs??? Come on, unless someone just falls into your lap, get the players we NEED Vinny....quit collecting names and start collecting TALENT, NECESSARY TALENT!!!!

8-8, a hard way to finish out

Well Skins fans, we lost a big one in San Francisco.  I give all the credit in the world to Hill and Coach Singletary for sticking it out and making something out of nothing.  After the 49ers pitiful 2nd and 3rd quarters, it would have been easy to pack it in, and go home for a few months.  But they stuck it out and showed us that our secondary was sleeping.

I admire everything the Redskins and Coach Zorn have accomplished this season, and if you think back to the preseason, we didn't underperform according to most everyone's prediction.  At best, we were predicted to win 9 games....that's at BEST!!!  We came up at .500 on the season with a first year head coach, the fourth offensive system for our QB and frankly, I'm proud of these Redskins!

They fought through injury, turmoil, and turnover at the top.  They never quit, never gave up and if 8-8 is a lousy season, I'd love to see a good one.  We're not the Lions, we're not the Chiefs, we won some big games this year and sparks of greatness were shown.  I applaud every player and coach on that team for a great year!  Of course, the post season would have been nice, but 8-8 is amazing for a coach that's never been in that leadership role before.

Congratulations to our 2008 Washington Redskins.  A turnover here, a touchdown there, and we'd be talking about a Superbowl....but all in all a great season, and I'm looking forward to improvement for 2009!

Hold your heads up high DC.....you have nothing to be ashamed of!  HAIL TO THE REDSKINS!!!!!!!!!