…As I’ve wrote in my blog yesterday…

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States exhibit number 1 why the internet should be destroyed!

Shanahan inherited a team with no youth, so drafting youth takes time.

Shanahan traded back 3 times last season for mor draft picks last year and this year, unlike years past.

Shanahan passed on Blaine Gabbert.

Shanahan build a strong core of running backs so that when one went down others stepped up.

Only mistake i can see was trusting in Beck. Grossman may be a turnover machine, but he also makes good throws and gave the Skins chances to win. Beck never did. Grossmans a good backup, but we need a starter. I hope they go after Orton and not Manning or RG3. Have to wait and see. Good news is for once the Skins have a lot of draft picks to use this year.

RGIII’s run ability and athleticism would give the Skins something they havent had at QB in years…a playmaker.

Of course your going to be more successful having a hall fame quarterback such as Elway and all the all-pro players the 97 & 98 Broncos had, oppose to Jake Plummer, Brian Griese, Jay Cutler and less talent. Point is he still won a lot of games with the latter two and less around them.

He has a jersey shore tan?

Shanahan might have been a successful coach outside of Denver if he was paired with a Bill Polian or a solid organization like the Steelers or Ravens. But like Bill Parcells (if I cook the meal I should pick the groceries…..has never won a Super Bowl without Belichick as DC) he believes his own myth, and will not meet people on equal terms.

It’s a problem NFL wide.

There have been 2 truly great NFL icons in the past 30-35 years that could head up an entire organization – Bill Walsh and Bill Belichick. That’s all. People like Shanahan, Parcells, even Eric Mangini, get this idea that they can do it all. They can’t. The Tomlin’s, Peyton’s, Dungy’s, Harbaugh’s (both) and others are successful because they respect the fact that they’ve very good coaches, but they need support from the rest of the organization.

The Paul Brown’s, Vince Lombardi’s, Al Davis’, Chuck Noll’s, Don Shula’s and one or two others were very, very special (even Tom Landry had Gil Brandt finding him unknown free agents that he could turn into Pro Bowlers). These other people aren’t – and a smart NFL owner with a poor franchise has a better chance of becoming a consistent playoff contender by putting together a solid FO and coaching staff that can work together, rather then to think a Shanahan or Gruden is going to single-handedly build him a perennial contender.

It’s why the greats are greats. Or as Clint said (which many of these guys didn’t pay attention to) – “a man has to know his limitations.”

Elway was drafted in 1983 and was known as the best college QB available in years. He did well, getting the Broncos to the Super Bowl. After Shanahan was hired in 1995 Elway went to the next level, and the Broncos ultimately kicked down the door to win the Super Bowl.

Yet since Elway retired, the Broncos were never a very good team – going 7 years before getting a playoff win. Yet for some reason Shanahan kept this aura about him that he was some sort of genius.

This is not Bill Walsh or Bill Belichick here. Nor Sean Peyton, Mike McCarthy or Mike Tomlin. Maybe an Tony Dungy or Jon Gruden – if he has a crackerjack GM to ferret out the players he needs for his systems he can win big.

Shanahan was in line with Daniel Snyder’s other big-splash moves. Sexy, but it’s time had passed. Kind of what they used to say about Playboy Magazine – by the time they publish something, everyone following the situation has already known about it for 3 years.

The evidence has been in for years – the Redskins need to find a new owner. Why anyone expected much out of Shannahan is beyond me.

Welcome to more mediocrity….

In 1999, Shanahan passed over backup Bubby Brister for his 3rd round QB pick from 1998, Brian Griese.

In 2003, the Broncos signed free agent Jake Plummer. In November, 2006, Shanahan yanked Plummer out as starting QB for the Broncos, who were then 7-4. He put in Jay Cutler, his first round draft pick. They lost three out of their last five games to go 9-7 and miss the playoffs.

Then, of course, he sent two draft picks to the Eagles for Donovan McNabb, trading Jason Campbell to the Raiders. He benched McNabb before halftime during a game with the Lions, at which time the Redskins were 4-3. They lost the game and finished the season 6-10.

This season, he literally bet his reputation on Rex Grossman and John Beck. We all know how this disaster turned out.

So, can someone here please make a case for why Shanahan should be regarded as having good judgment for picking quarterbacks???

Daniel Snyder and Shanahan deserve one another. Redskin fans deserve neither of them….

Please let us lose to the Eagles this Sunday….For if we win and Miami loses, our franchise will be set back beyond the years of cigarettes and booze that my sickly SKIN FAN body can tolerate….I will die not knowing that our team was turned around.

Sincerely,

SKINS FAN #1
Hail?

Great decision to not have chosen a QB with the 10th pick this past year and traded down for the additional draft picks. This year’s draft picks are playing well and showing resolute. Something that can’t be said about prior years.

I believe they have 9-10 picks for 2012.

-Mike

tatum bell can sure tote those bags, hwever.

He is great at picking running backs, though.

If the article was “Shanahan has not starting scouting college quarterbacks yet”, everyone would be cracking him for not doing so.

The formula for a comment on this article is as follows:

“Quoted piece of the article”

Snarky comment that implies the commenter is smarter than the player or head coach.

one track dumb mind….

But leave it to the coach to suck what little life is still in them right before the final game of the season.

Really, you couldn’t have waited until Monday to announce this?