The-Hogs.net - Washington Football Discussion, Redskins to Commanders Era

Through our beloved history, we have seen the redskins REPEATEDLEY make the mediocre look like world beaters. Sunday was now different. Chris Simms undoubtedly has played the game of his career. Nothing different than Clint Longley, Uminoria(or whatever his name is), that guy from KC just to name a few. Recent history (and living in Philly area) has brought me to this conclusion. It's not the system, its the talent. We are way to thin on talent and the skins will not get out of the funk until we get more TALENT on defense. I would be surprised if we get into the post season. Don't get me wrong, I love my team, but when you stick the likes of Harris and Jimoh on an Island....we're cooked. Shame on Williams for not knowing this and adjusting accordingly.

So, to this end I say GO SKINS. However, it would not surprise me if we don't make the post season. If they make I'll be front and center, however.

Hail

LaVar Arrington, Sean Taylor, Marcus Washington, Cornelius Griffin, Shawn Springs, and Carlos Rogers are all guys with premier NFL talent. You can't ask for talent at every single position especially in the salary cap era.

portis26 wrote:LaVar Arrington, Sean Taylor, Marcus Washington, Cornelius Griffin, Shawn Springs, and Carlos Rogers are all guys with premier NFL talent. You can't ask for talent at every single position especially in the salary cap era.

I'm not sure if Rogers is good enough to be a "premier talent" just yet. He has gotten beat but he's continually learning. He probably will be a great CB but he's not there yet.

We got to win with this team we traded all our picks away. That is why we have no depth. Remember we were missing Sean Taylor and Griffin. Don't tell me those guys aren't worth one point.

I don't think that the problem is lack of top talent. I think our lack of depth is what is hurting us. Everybody is going to suffer injuries (Taylor, Griffen, Springs earlier in the year) and it's the teams that can plug guys into the lineup and still be relatively effective that are going to be succesful on a consitant basis. When you have guys like Prioleau, Harris, Jimoh, Holdman, Rogers, etc. playing a prominent role on your team then you are going to have problems.

Problem is Walt Harris stinks... for the third or fourth week in a row now this guys has stunk it up, it make me sick that he is still playing. He can't cover or tackle, I am surprised he can find the field to run out on to, b/c he obviously can't ever find the guy he is covering...

I agree that Walt Harris is complete garbage on the field. However, we should take this oppurtunity to pray to the football Gods to heal us after losing yesterday then having the Cowboys just win like that on National TV.

Great points by all. Only way we get in this season is running the table at this point. All in all, the best this team has been since Gibbs v. 1.0 left the building. If only he was a young coach.

It's not as much about talent as is about which coach can get as many of his 53 players on the same page...The Pats did it very well the last few years...how many of them will go to the HOF?? The Skins did is well in the 80's and look how many of them are in the HOF?? We are good and on the right path. If we were getting beat and not making mistakes I'd be worried. We are next to last in TO differencial...and still we're 5-4 Unheard of!!!

Maybe it would help if someone could convience Mark Brunell to quit turning the ball over to the other team via fumbles and interceptions.

I think wasting your #1 draft pick for this year for a guy who didnt even see the field this year was a big mistake too.

Thank you for double posting. Lets see Campbell is young, Brunell is old, you can see where it is going? But by judging by your other posts you wont be able to put things together. Campbell will be the starter after Brunell retires, which isnt long from now.