If the Skins go 6-10 or worse, Shanny SHOULD be on the chopping block

[Darth Tater]

I'm not sure what happened to the Lions honestly. Calvin is having a monster season and Stafford is 2nd in the league in passing. Their defense hasn't been as good, but it's hard to say what happened for them to be a 10-6 team last year to a 5-10 team this year.

For us to avoid a set back, we'll have to add some depth to the secondary and DL. We definitely seem to be on the right track now.

Last year, they won a lot of games at a razor thin margin while this year, they are losing them. Also, lots of teams did not play the full game against them last year. For instance, remember their Dallas game last year? Dallas was dominating and should have blown them out and just self-destructed in the last quarter. Nice thing here is that most of our wins have not come when we are being dominated like that and out opponents self-destruct and even most of our losses were more due to us being bad. Problem that we may have is that the offense cannot have a bad game if we want to win.

[TD_washingtonredskins]

I'm glad with the way 2012 turned out...I'm much happier not having to defend 3 straight double digit loss seasons!

[pjfootballer]

I'm not sure what happened to the Lions honestly. Calvin is having a monster season and Stafford is 2nd in the league in passing. Their defense hasn't been as good, but it's hard to say what happened for them to be a 10-6 team last year to a 5-10 team this year.

For us to avoid a set back, we'll have to add some depth to the secondary and DL. We definitely seem to be on the right track now.

They can't run the football. Problem with Detroit is, they are running a "one back" offense with LeShoure and he needs a fullback leading into the hole. Also, most of their TEs (Pettitgrew and Sheffler) are pass catching TEs, so without a true FB or TEs that can block, they are relying on their line to do ALL the blocking. They are easy to defend with all the WRs out.

[stevemcqueen1]

I'm not sure what happened to the Lions honestly. Calvin is having a monster season and Stafford is 2nd in the league in passing. Their defense hasn't been as good, but it's hard to say what happened for them to be a 10-6 team last year to a 5-10 team this year.

For us to avoid a set back, we'll have to add some depth to the secondary and DL. We definitely seem to be on the right track now.

They lost all semblance of offensive balance. Stafford has also been pretty bad this year, showing clear regression from last season when he was poised to join the elite QBs. The schedule got harder. The coach is teetering on the edge of losing his locker room. Their defense can't seem to stop anyone. They play in a brutal division. The season got away from them early and things fell apart from there.

[kjames35]

Wow!!! Look how a few weeks can change things.

And oh BTW, Shanahan has been a part of teams to have played in 10 Conference Championship Games in addition to his six Super Bowl appearances.

Not a bad resume. Patience was definitely a virtue, huh?

Go Skins!!!

[BRAVEONTHEWARPATH93]

damn...I'm scared to look at my old posts in this thread lol

[Mr. Sinister]

Makes sense. I remember someone explaining that the type of injury he suffered normally requires a 3 week recovery period. He didn't seem to take a ton of spills last week even though he played, so it would make sense that he would be full go this week.

[AlvinWaltonIsMyBoy]

Here comes 5 wins MAX, with no improvement I think he needs to go. We praised him for discipline and preaches patients but never admitted to a rebuild. In fact it was a rebuild but considering the debacle with McNabb and next potentially in RG3. With a qb that ran shotgun and had a few check down system in a gimmick conference is your number 2 pick...to save the franchise---right. We paid a hefty price for a pot'l unproven qb without building an oline. This will result in another 3-5 year set back. Just plan sad, not sure why fellow skins fans our so excited. We've drank this cool aid before, give me water and tell me its water.

This one is awesome.

[2cents]

This one is awesome.

Posts like that from longball are why I took a long break from the board. August and the Skins had already failed. Yeah, you can only take so much stupid sometimes.

[kjames35]

Posts like that from longball are why I took a long break from the board. August and the Skins had already failed. Yeah, you can only take so much stupid sometimes.

True. Longball really sucked on that post.

[JimboDaMan]

damn...I'm scared to look at my old posts in this thread lol

Allow me to save you the trouble. This isn't the worst, but it'll do for now.

Please tell me why I should be in the least bit optimistic?

My head coach LITERALLY JUST ADMITTED DEFEAT ON THE SEASON.

I should feel optimistic? really?

So you know how to properly run a franchise?

Well damn, get Shanahan on the phone and give him some damn pointers

Season sure got a lot brighter over the last month and a half, didn't it?

[Leonard Washington]

If we finish 9-7 or worse...

[BRAVEONTHEWARPATH93]

Allow me to save you the trouble. This isn't the worst, but it'll do for now.



Season sure got a lot brighter over the last month and a half, didn't it?

[Jumbo]

Wish everyone had the ability to laugh at themselves or not take themselves so seriously, or just handle such things in general like you do here, BOTW.

[thesubmittedone]

Wish everyone had the ability to laugh at themselves or not take themselves so seriously, or just handle such things in general like you do here, BOTW.

Yeah, I second that. I really got into it with Brave here in this thread and elsewhere, as well as quite a few others (lol), but it seems he's one of the only ones willing to reflect on it sincerely.

And not saying I was right or anything, don't take it like that. I really don't care how I'm viewed here with the labels. But this place at 3-6 really made me understand how awful it's become, unfortunately.