Orakpo, who we took the pick after the Broncos, has been a stud. It’s all about playing the youth and evaluating the talent so we know who to cut w/ the uncapped year next year.

bye bye Portis.

The Skins built that #5 D by facing the weakest schedule in the league. It is likely that their D is only average at best when you look at the big picture. I look for Denver to finally play a complete game and blow out the Skins on Sunday.

Last time they used a 1st or 2nd round pick on an olineman was Chris Samuels TEN YEARS AGO. Half of the Oline this Sunday are undrafted journeyman bouncing around practice squads. It’s an embarrassment. Samuels and Randy Thomas had season ending injuries last year and the skins STILL did not draft an Offensive lineman this year.

When Vinny Cerrato was asked to defend hinself 2 weeks ago, he said “Well, we brought in Dockery and Mike Williams.” Mike Williams was 450 pounds and out of the league for 2 years. Total f’n joke.

Change needs to come. Sad, but Zorn never had a chance w/ the OLine Cerrato gave him. They burned their 3 second round picks last year ALL on WRs and none of them are contributing at all still. Matt Millen anyone?

Zorn has made some horrible play-calls (Portis throwing the ball on 3rd and 1 from the goalline) etc…but the truth is, the players are not executing and Campbell is getting sacked on 3-step drops.

Skins pass rush has been scary good this year. Haynesworth has been a MONSTER up the middle leaving Orakpo and Andre Carter 1-1s…if it aint’ broke….

Orakpo will be seeing Clady on rushing downs. He plays SAM on passing plays and has been getting torn up (still learning since at Texas he was true DE)

DB’s have been playing 10 yards off the line of scrimmage … so maddening.

Load of injuries. Cooley is big. Hunter Smith the punter is out, so that hurts our special teams. Losing Chris Samuels is what broke the camel’s back. Especially since it was a career ender.

Landry has been horrible. WHen Sean Taylor died, they moved him from his natural position of SS to FS, where he has been a ghost (no INTs this year) and he takes horribles lines on tackles. He has several PF penalties that have killed the Skins. Chris Horton, our stud SS was just put on IR this week, so Landry might move back to SS this week. Landry and Taylor were a perfect match b/c Landry is a beast when he is up at the line of scrimmage…so tough to say whether i regret the pick or not.

Skins have very good corners. Carlos Rogers and DeAngelo Hall can protect with the best of them. Unfortunately, Rogers cannot catch worth a damn, and Hall tackles as good as Mary-Kate Olsen.

As for the scuffle, Landry deserved the flag but Coach Smith was way out of line. Hall clearly got grabbed by the one ATL coach then Mike Smith, who’s suppose to be the voice of reason, got in his face. DHall had nothing to do w/ that play, which the NFL agreed with not fining him but Coach Smith $15K

3.) Sean Taylor trials are still dragging since the thugs are young. They keep changing their pleas. They’ll never see daylight anytime soon.

4.) Zorn likely will be canned, but Snyder doesn’t want to pay the remainder of his contract. Snyder was hoping he’d quit when he stripped his play-calling. THat back-fired.

5.) EVERY fan is against Snyder. Even before this year most people hated him. It’s blown up this year nationally, but we still haven’t gotten over the Spurrier era.

6.) A GM that knows their head from their ass. Cerrato has killed this franchise the way he’s traded away picks and drafted 3 busts in the 2nd round last year.

Yea, I get emailed at least 10 things a day about different Snyder stunts or Anti-Snyder facebook groups. I won’t contribute to it, but I 100% understand why fans are doing it. Snyder has been raping the fans with every charge imaginable. The advertisements over the PA system b/w ALL timeouts has killed thegame experience for me. I’m handing in my season tix after this season.

If Snyder fires Cerrato, he will be a loved man again. Will it happen? Hopefully.

I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing him at camp. 100% work horse and nice guy. What’s funny is the Skins tried to trade up to #12 from our #13 and McDaniels said “No..don’t worry about it.”…you definitely could have gotten our #3 from us.

Chris Samuels, who has only played against the best, gave him very high praise, and Samuels never does that. Called him a “bull.”

that Shanahan is still a good coach and is an excellent strategist. He is even a good play caller. He just needs to ease up on the control issues and stick to coaching because he has a bad history with personnel decisions. If his ego can handle having a GM partner, he will do wonders for any team he decides to go to.
It appears that Dan Snyder and Vinnie Cerrato suffer from cronyism. It would be difficult to say if VC and Mike can co exist. It would be wise to keep Greg Blache and Joe Bugel, in my opinion. Rumor has it, that Shanahan is trying to bring Larry Coyer with him. Bad Move.

On another note. How is Jeremy Jarmon coming along. I did a post on the Supplemental Draft and wondered how things are working out. Do you think he was worth the pick, or is it too early to tell yet?

Some here are more qualified than me to answer, but my impression is that Shanahan’s zone blocking scheme and our running backs coach created a system in which many backs could get yards. I don’t think it was necessarily an eye for talent. He had some lucky breaks, and a great 2008 draft, but a lot of busts. Someone here at MHR did a post on that…. and I don’t know how to find it. There was a list of all of Shanahan’s draft picks, and the poster traced that history to see which ones were busts. There were MANY busts, as I recall. In the end, Shanahan had taken on so many “pet” projects that we had no continuity and a lot of bad apples in the locker room. The list of players with either injury histories or off-field issues histories reads like Oakland’s most wanted: Travis Henry, Maurice Clarrett, Javon Walker, just to name a few. SHanahan’s “eye” for personnel was the eye of a Dollar Store shopper. He’ll take all the factory seconds in hopes of finding a treasure, based on the one success story of Terrell Davis. I think he actually believed that he could turn any back into a star, after the media repeated it enough times.

In any case, I think that being fired was a wake up call, and Mike is too smart not to realize he needs to learn some more things about the new NFL to be effective. I think he has done his homework leading up to this season. I would trust him to turn a team around. Watch that defensive baggage, though. If he brings Slowik, my experience says you’re in trouble.

He actually had a clause in his contract that he’d be the next HC or get $1 million….Skins decided to let him go anyway. Williams has a very large ego, and it didn’t mesh well with DC. Gregg firmly believes it’s his system not the players that make him so successful. He fractured the team a bit the way he just benched Lavar Arrington, a fan favorite. But the real reason is he lets successful players go when they earned their pay day. Antonio Pierce was a great LB for washington and when his contract was up, Gregg told Snyder no need to re-sign him…we’ll be fine. That definitely was not the case and the Skins struggled until they were able to bring in London Fletcher. The Skins front office went to the players and it was clear there would be some probs making Gregg the next HC.

Skins desperately needed a RB and Bailey was under-performing in DC…just like all the free agents Snyder brought in. Gibbs needs a particular RB for his scheme, and in his transition to clean up Spurrier’s mess, he needed Portis. What kills us in DC is that we threw in that 2nd round pick? I remember back then and even now….Why was that trade not straight up?

(Answer: Every team robs the Skins of draft picks. See Bill Parcells last year trading Jason Taylor for a 2 and a 6…and they get him back the next year.)

Another sore spot of how VInny Cerrato has lacked drafting depth at key positions. The 3rd string RB is Rock Cartwright…who is good, but nothing to be scared of.

skins lost to the Lions and Chiefs and BARELY beat the Rams at home