The fact that we’ve pegged a game between a previously winless team and one that would have been if it hadn’t played the Rams and Bucs as one of the best five games of the day shows just how bad, relatively speaking, Week Five was.
Still, this one was compelling not for what happened on the field, but what might come next.
After his team blew a 17-2 lead to the Panthers, Redskins owner Daniel Snyder was livid. And understandably so.
Snyder, who had dinner Saturday night with two-time former coach Joe Gibbs, surely is plotting his next move. If the hiring of “consultant” Sherm Lewis, the tape applied to the mouth of defensive coordinator Greg Blache (who is expected to be the interim head coach), and ongoing rumors of a run at Mike Shanahan weren’t enough, dropping a game that the ‘Skins should have won completely erases the “if” regarding Jim Zorn’s terminaton and makes the “when” a matter of either “right now” or in two weeks, when the team’s bye commences.
On the other sideline, a coaching change could be coming, too. Coach John Fox reportedly has told friends he expects to be fired (he denied it after the game). So with former Steelers coach Bill Cowher living not far up the road and Carolina owner Jerry Richardson wanting to emulate the folks who owned the team with which Cowher spent 15 years, it’s a no-brainer.
Watching the second half of Sunday’s game nearly melted my own brain (or at least what’s left of it, due to the schnapps), and both of these franchises need a major overhaul moving forward.
Look for both to get one as of January.
Ha-ha, sorry Florio, looks like your Skins are who we thought they were.
Maybe you should spend a little more time on Roto World with Rosenthal before making your picks…
Danny boy needs a J.V. coach to teach tackling. Not another set of eyes for the offense. If D. Hall could tackle an old man out there, they might have had a chance to throw a Hail Mary. But I guess the only Hail Mary’s will be for the season now.