Valium All Around

Valium all around!!!

Redskins’ football is depressing. This was supposed to have been happy times. Big dreams! The opening game loss to the Giants was expected, but the next five games were all winnable. Worst they should have come out with a 4-2 record not the opposite.

I do not live and die with the Redskins. This is not the early 70’s when George Allen make them yearly playoff contenders. Nor the 80’s when Joe Gibbs made them the team of the decade.

The depression is getting to me. I don’t want to write. Don’t want to talk about football, especially, the Redskins. I have Snyder Syndrome. The only know cure is cold beer & friends.

There is no hope for the season. The idea of changing the play calling to Sherman Lewis is a joke. It is purely a desperation move, because there is no rational logic on why someone would think a guy who has been with the team, oh, two weeks can call plays better than the person who established the offense.

The Redskins are miserable.

Many people I know are now watching and pulling for the Baltimore Ravens. When there were technical difficulties with last week’s TV broadcast and the game was switch to Minnesota/Baltimore there were no complaints where I was watching.

The Ravens are exactly the kind of team we wish the Redskins should become. They do not have an arrogant interfering owner, but one who let’s football people make the calls.

Ozzie Newsome is an outstanding General Manager. The offense has been built through the draft. Nine of the 11 starters were drafted including 4 of the 5 offensive linemen and the entire backfield.

Defense is more of the same with 8 of the players drafted including future Hall of Famer Ray Lewis, who wasn’t Baltimore’s first pick in 1996 draft. Offensive tackle Jonathan Ogden was picked 20 selections earlier. Four years later with Trent Dilfer, a so-so quarterback, the Ravens won the Super Bowl.

Ten years ago Ray Lewis was one of the few defensive players who was worth the price of an overpriced NFL ticket.

These days the Ravens are a little old on defense but the offense is young and exciting. Baltimore may not make the playoffs after the heart breaking 33-31 loss to undefeated Minnesota on Sunday when the game ended on a missed 44-yard field goal. They will be worth watching.

The same can not be said for the dismal Redskins, who audience is being reduced to just us die-hard fans.