Let’s start with The Ugly, Book’em Dano Snyder got called out by the Washington Post for being outright greedy and proving once again he treats fans as Cash Cows whom he milks for every dollar. Maybe this does a disservice to the word ‘ugly’ and should be renamed: ‘Repulsive.’
Ok, I’m sorry; there is a reason to be positive and feel good. The season starts on Sunday. If you can’t be a believer before the season starts you might as well cash it in. But if you want to have hope you better pray for good health as that is the key to a successful season, and a successful season means making the playoffs.
The Good: the brightest light of hope is the defensive line. This should be the best D-Line since the glory years of the early 80’s. The addition of tackle Albert Haynesworth, end/linebacker Brian Orakpo and end Jeremy Jarmon all give the Redskins a pass rush. One of the keys to making the Super Bowl is sacks. Since 2000 only the Arizona Cardinals (last year) and the Indianapolis Colts (2007) have made the championship game with less than 40 sacks. Last year the Redskins had only 24.
The fresh blood could allow Andre Carter to have another banner year like 2007 when he had 10.5 sacks. Throw in veterans Cornelius Griffin and Phillip Daniels and the Redskins have good balance to stop the run and nice depth. This may be better than The Good, let’s be optimistic and call it The Great!
Speaking of nice depth, the Redskins also have it at Safety with Chris Horton & LaRon Landry starting with very capable back up by Reed Doughty. This is, also, The Good.
The Good would also go with the starting cornerbacks of DeAngelo Hall, Carlos Rogers and Fred Smoot. However, if one goes down we’re talking not so good and if they lose 2, then we’ve got The Ugly.
Finding The Good on offense may take Sherlock Holmes. Santana Moss is good, but right now supporting cast could be The Bad.
The starting offensive line could be The Good, or at least OK, but it must stay healthy for 16 games. If the injury bug bites again they become The Bad quickly and hopefully not The Ugly they were at the end of 2008.
It is time for quarterback Jason Campbell to step up and be The Good. If he doesn’t both he and Coach Zorn are gone. Zorn was hired to make Campbell an NFL playoff QB. It’s not a huge leap to get there. After all Rex Grossman, Rich Gannon, Brad Johnson, and Trent Dilfer all lead their teams to the Super Bowls in the last 10 years. No one is saving any of them wall space in Canton.
Let’s be optimistic. If the offense can average 17 to 20 points a game, the defense can set up another 6 to 10, then the schedule is such that they could win 10 games. This would be The Great!
The season starts on Sunday against the NY Giants. Normally this game is The Bad bordering on The Ugly. However, an upset and The Good season is off to a quick start.
13 years ago
1 comments:
Schlitz...Good stuff. Now we must hope and pray that no one gets injured on the O-line because Mike williams is scary slow and he'll get Campbell mauled. We also want to avoid any D-backfield injuries because we seem to be a little too thin there.Last area is placekicking: Did Suisham get the job back because he was less bad than Raynor or what? I hope that most of your "goods" come through and the "bads" and the "uglies" never appear.Oh,by the way... Go Terps beat JMU!!...That one's for Tim and Tracy...Cheers!!!...JT
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