"A Contender For the Next Three Years!!!"

GibbsLombardi · Post by **GibbsLombardi** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 4:06 pm

http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/teams/redskins/

I especially love the quote, "the team has a large corps of talented players on offense and defense, making the club a contender for the postseason for the next three seasons."

Redskins Team Report
3/19/2006

By Paul Woody
Richmond Times-Dispatch

TEAM ANALYSIS: The team's big splashes in free agency are nothing new. This year, though, there is a method to their madness. Instead of overpaying for players who are on the downside of their careers, the team has overpaid for players who should be in the prime of their careers. The problem will come in three years when decisions will have to be made regarding the careers of Adam Archuleta, Brandon Lloyd, Antwaan Randle El and perhaps such players as Jon Jansen, Chris Samuels and Clinton Portis. But for now, the team has a large corps of talented players on offense and defense, making the club a contender for the postseason for the next three seasons.

PERSONNEL ANALYSIS:Andre Carter gives the team the one thing the defense has been lacking for several years, a true pass rushing end. Carter also makes the entire front four a better, more versatile unit. No one knows better than the club how effective Carter can be against big tackles. He gave Chris Samuels some difficult moments when the team met the 49ers. Carter is quick off the edge, can dive inside if the tackle makes a wrong step or lines up in the wrong set and can be a standup pass rusher in third-down situations, a role LaVar Arrington sometimes filled the past two seasons. Carter makes the defensive tackles more effective because teams now will have to focus on Carter coming off the edge and will be unable to consistently double team Cornelius Griffin in the middle. The team now has three quality defensive ends. Phillip Daniels and Renaldo Wynn both can move inside. Daniels is big enough to play there on running downs, while Wynn has played tackle in nickel situations. Wynn is coming back from a broken arm, and if he has any problems at all, Daniels can flip to the left side. The acquisition of Todd Collins as the backup quarterback falls in line with the Joe Gibbs' master plan on developing a quarterback. In a perfect world, Gibbs would prefer that a young quarterback not play for at least two seasons. With Collins, the club has a veteran backup who is intimately familiar with Al Saunders' game plans and strategies. If Jason Campbell plays so well this spring and pre-season that he wins the backup job, that will be fine. And while the team wants to see progress, it does not want to feel pressured into playing a quarterback before he is ready. Campbell remains the heir-apparent to Mark Brunell, but it could be 2007 before Campbell takes over, even if Brunell has to miss time in 2006.

OFFENSIVE ADJUSTMENTS: While it is not a new strategy, the team now will be able to take advantage of three wide-receiver sets, and not just to put pressure on defenses with the passing game. Gibbs long has seen the advantage of spreading the field with three wideouts, then pounding the defense with the running game. Gibbs has given Saunders the weapons to spread the field with Santana Moss, Brandon Lloyd and Antwaan Randle El. Defenses will have to account for those three, will be unable to slip an extra man into the box, probably will have to defend the run with just five or six players, playing into the hands of the offensive line and Portis. Randle El also gives the team a wrinkle it has lacked, the flanker-option pass. The option has been handled by Portis the past two years, but he is not a particularly good passer. Randle El will force defenses to keep men home when he runs reverses, opening things up deep if a defensive back bites on the run play. And if that happens, Randle El has a Super Bowl touchdown pass as proof of what he can do.

hatsOFF2gibbs · Post by **hatsOFF2gibbs** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 4:07 pm

Finally, SOME R-E-S-P-E-C-T!
Now...if the NFL.com or something had an article like this...

cvillehog · Post by **cvillehog** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 4:13 pm

Respect if overrated.

frankcal20 · Post by **frankcal20** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 4:14 pm

Randle El also gives the team a wrinkle it has lacked, the flanker-option pass. The option has been handled by Portis the past two years, but he is not a particularly good passer.

I think that Portis has great passing numbers.

Redskins Rule · Post by **Redskins Rule** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 4:15 pm

Jake · Post by **Jake** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 4:16 pm

hatsOFF2gibbs wrote:Finally, SOME R-E-S-P-E-C-T!
Now...if the NFL.com or something had an article like this...

... he'd be fired. :-"

EA7649 · Post by **EA7649** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 4:18 pm

Jake wrote:
hatsOFF2gibbs wrote:Finally, SOME R-E-S-P-E-C-T!
Now...if the NFL.com or something had an article like this...

... he'd be fired. :-"

they would only give respect to the cow :puke:

AZHog · Post by **AZHog** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 4:19 pm

No, because then the other journalists would begin running headlines "Danny buys a Championship and a Headline!"

Mursilis · Post by **Mursilis** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 4:33 pm

cvillehog wrote:Respect is overrated.

And, if you ask me, unwanted. I like it better when our guys have a chip on their shoulder (like they did the last two seasons when we got snubbed in the Pro Bowl voting) and other teams underestimate us. Winning is the only goal; win enough, and respect takes care of itself.

Skinsfan55 · Post by **Skinsfan55** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 5:43 pm

Guys, I couldn't help but notice that article was from TSN.

My dad (and me extention me) has been getting the Sporting News for as long as I can remember. It's a fine magazine, very balanced, information on every major sports team (seasonal) and lots of really good articles.

If you're going to dump SI for not supporting Monk (or even if you're not) pick up TSN instead, it's awesome.

kadskin · Post by **kadskin** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:51 pm

All i gotta say is "SWEEEEEET" :wink:

redskinz4ever · Post by **redskinz4ever** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 7:11 pm

cvillehog wrote:Respect if overrated.

i agree .... after a 10-6 season and then we sign some free agents and all of a sudden we get respect ..... NO THANK YOU :!:

kadskin · Post by **kadskin** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:50 am

redskinz4ever wrote:
cvillehog wrote:Respect if overrated.
i agree .... after a 10-6 season and then we sign some free agents and all of a sudden we get respect ..... NO THANK YOU

It's better than no respect at all. Don't think we deserved respect before, in the NFL respect is earned by the record and number of wins you have. You don't earn respect when your 8-8 or 6-10, you get it when you become a winning team. No one is afraid of a team that can't WIN. We earned it this time. Soooo, keep 'em respectings coming! FINALLY!

redskinz4ever · Post by **redskinz4ever** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:15 am

kadskin wrote:
redskinz4ever wrote:
cvillehog wrote:Respect if overrated.
i agree .... after a 10-6 season and then we sign some free agents and all of a sudden we get respect ..... NO THANK YOU

It's better than no respect at all. Don't think we deserved respect before, in the NFL respect is earned by the record and number of wins you have. You don't earn respect when your 8-8 or 6-10, you get it when you become a winning team. No one is afraid of a team that can't WIN. We earned it this time. Soooo, keep 'em respectings coming! FINALLY!

after a few years of winning yes i agree but one ...let see what happens this year ....do we deserve it if we go 6-10 ???all i'm saying is winning year in and year out you deserve respect,not from one year 10-6 :wink:

gottoloveit · Post by **gottoloveit** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 2:58 pm

,not from one year 10-6

well said

Chris Luva Luva · Post by **Chris Luva Luva** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 3:02 pm

gottoloveit wrote:,not from one year 10-6

well said

Ironic...

gottoloveit · Post by **gottoloveit** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 3:23 pm

welch · Post by **welch** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 8:04 pm

I still like it better when the "experts" insist the Redskins will be lucky to win four games. It's too weird. I want to hear the good, old, refrain:

- Joe Gibbs is too old to coach

- the Redskins can't win because they don't have the starlettes

- Joe Gibbs should go back to NASCAR because he's too old to coach

- The Redskins can't win by playing smash-mouth football in the modern finesse era

- Joe Gibbs is too old to coach

- ten variations on all the above...

SkinsJock · Post by **SkinsJock** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:23 pm

Well said welch! I think with Snyder owning this team and Gibbs managing this team, as he has shown, we are in for many years of success. There is no time limit for this team and its' success.

I saw an article today that the Colts manager was explaining that he refuses to over pay for James and that no team should spend more on the players than they are worth! The Redskins FO believes in giving their fans the best product available and paying the players for their service. The Colts fans have just lost an incredible talent because their FO do not think he was worth the money! And this same team is paying Manning "what he is worth"? NOT!