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!!!!!!!!!

PERFECTION!!!!!!!

With apologies to Rod Marinelli and the players...

Detroit has finally made history!  It was a long time in the making, and they worked hard to achieve this dream, but Detroit is now the proud owner of the WORST record ever in the history of Pro Football!

How do you not win ONE game?  You can blame the owner, the president, the gm, the coach....but damn....how do you go completely winless!!!?????

Anyways, check back soon for some Perfect Season tees you can purchase to commemorate the occasion.  

I don't wish this on anyone, but since it happened, I'm going to pile it on.

Blame for everyone...almost

Well it appears that there's plenty of blame to go around at Redskins park today.  According to this article, Coach Zorn blames first himself, then the rest of his staff for the lackluster performances on the field the last half-season.  And while I admire a man who can admit he's made mistakes, why would it take this long to realize it?

Doesn't that smell of a "I'm afraid to blame anyone else because I'm just the new guy here" kind of remark?

And then Clinton Portis takes a turn at the blame game.  You might remember last week when he lit up Coach Zorn on the radio.  Well this week, he keeps the blame closer to home, as you can read in this article.  CP seems to think that the players on the team are letting themselves down.  

I don't know about you, but I'm thinking we may have seen the first, last and only season under the Zorn regime.  I haven't heard anything from Dan The Fan's office but they usually wait until after the season to mess things up.  I mean, change things for the better.  (right).

Either way, I think the effort shown is indicative of an aging offensive and defensive line.  You can nitpick other areas, but where the majority of the problems start and end are with the lines.  We have virtually no pass rush, we can't hardly protect the QB long enough for him to even drop back and set up a pass, let alone pass it, and lately:  We can't run between the tackles most plays.

Fix what's broken, leave what isn't and I bet we have the tools to turn this whole thing around for the 2009 campaign.

Hail Redskins!  Hold your heads up high, better days are a comin'!

Redskins @ Bengals

Well, what can I say?  The first quarter we crapped the bed.  In a BIG way.  Cooley fumbles on a pass, and gives Cincy everything it needs to start playing football this year.  I love Chris Cooley like a brother, but hey, his mistake gave Cincy something to build on.

The blame for the rest of the 1st quarter is placed on the defense and, honestly, our offensive line.  Campbell may not be the next coming of Sonny Jurgenson, but hell, he's the best we've had since Joe Theisman.  Give the man a few seconds to throw the ball wouldja?

Our offensive line has struggled since the time we went 6-2 this year.  They've been giving up protection as if their jobs are to stand and watch the game up close.  What the hell?

The second quarter, into the middle of the third quarter looked like REDSKINS FOOTBALL to me.  We were connecting on passes, C.P. was finding hard yardage everywhere we turned, then the officials give the friggin' Bengals the ball on a bogus-assed call at the goal line.  

I do own a High-Def t.v. and DVR, and guess what?  Sellars got across the goal line before that ball was stripped with his second effort.  I know that doesn't matter for hell right now, we lost, but the officiating sucked.

At any rate, I'm still lovin' the Skins, and always will.  I just with the o-line would take the games more serious from the first snap.  A lot of good things happened today too.  Sellars, Portis, Moss, Campbell, Cooley, Fletcher, etc...they all had moments.  And at this point, I'm hoping to end the year with a winning season.  I really don't want to make it to the playoffs if it means a first round defeat.  That's worse in my mind than not making the post season at all.

Continue fighting 'Skins, you have the right coach and most of the right players!  Hail To The Redskins!!!!!!