2006 Point & Laugh at the taterskins thread

[rjs246]

AAAHHHHAHAHAHAHAHahAhAHHAhAhAhahHahaHAahAH!

A sixth rounder?! That's fargign hilarious.

[ice grillin you]

and in a few years....

campbell   (2) firsts--------->cut

[Mad-Lad]

the biggest signing for the skins this offseason is the offensive coordinator from KC.

[Wingspan]

Wingspan, this is where I hate this kind of comparison. If Alexander runs for 1000 more yards than Westbrook, scores 10 more TDs but has 30 less catches with 300 less yards does that somehow make them or close to it? Not remotely. A RB catching a bunch of passes but rushing inconsistently at best doesn't even begin to approximate a RB who rushes for 1600, 1700 or 1800 yards with 15-25 TDs. Even if the 1700 yard back only catches 30 passes. The two aren't even comparable.

McNabb and Hasselbeck ARE comparable. 20-30 TDs. 3000-4000 yards. McNabb adds the ability to evade the rush, but put him behind Seattle's line and he wouldn't have to do that as much. McNabb is far more talented, but their abilities as QBs aren't that far apart. Certainly not as far apart as Westbrook's and Alexander's.

look past the stats as well. which is 5 td span is better, 4 in one game, one in the next. or 2-2-1. we all know stats dont tell an accurate story.

the TD passes may be similar, but when are those TDs thrown? etc...etc...

i dont disagree, and you could debate the hasselbeck/alexander vs mcnabb/westbrook all day.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

the biggest signing for the skins this offseason is the offensive coordinator from KC.

Nope.  Todd Collins.

[Mad-Lad]

correction.  2nd biggest.

[Feva]

and in a few years....

campbell   (2) firsts--------->cut

And the even funnier thing about it is Gibbs will give him about 6-9 games and then he'll bury Campbell the whole time just like he did Ramsey.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

And then they'll bet the farm on another crap-ass QB.  Rinse.  Repeat.

[MDS]

back to the basics:

mark schlereth makes me sick topic:

I was just watching ESPN news and he is talking about how since the Cowboys signed T.O they are the best team pound for pound in the NFC east. He did say the taterskins improved greatly during this offseason, but it seems like he isnt a taterskins fan the way he was talking.

he doesnt think the taterskins are the bestest team evaaaar therefore he is a moron

[MDS]

What job do I love? I don't work for the taterskins or Dan Snyder. If it makes you feel better to assume I can appreciate what a fine owner he is and so doing must mean I work for him, that's your fatal flaw, not mine. At no point did I suggest he has been a perfect owner. No owner is perfect. He is, however, the best owner there is because he embodies EXACTLY what an owner should be.

He provides for his organization at a level no one else can compete with -- or more, that no one else has chosen to compete with.

Now, I don't hold it against him he fired people who couldn't use a computer when he came on board in 1999. In fact, I'm pretty sure all of us would have walked in to taterskins Park back then and been astounded that there were two computers in the building and the organization was in such a shambles.

Snyder fixed that, making taterskins Park a technological marvel and hiring the types of people qualified to do that. That's good ownership, even if it hurts a few people he fired. On top of that, many of these people in very key positions had a DIRECT line to the press. You can trace the lineage of some of our problems with the media to the initial termination of just about every close contact developed by reporters at the Park over the years.

The free agency period of 2000 is most routinely used to diminish Snyder in some way, largely because people are factually inaccurate about how they portray it. Like you here. The 6-2 taterskins of 2000 didn't appear to be splintered, right? The defense that ranked 30th the year before improved to fourth in 2000 as a direct reflection of the offseason, yet, you'd consider this a flaw? Only when we had injuries on offense and some guys turned out to have had CAREER years the previous year on offense did we begin to fail. The moves themselves were very successful in doing exactly what they were supposed to do.

The reason Marty was let go was the public, joint statement that he wouldn't relinquish his GM duties, but, since Marty didn't actually HAVE GM duties, he merely assumed them and Snyder allowed it for a year, tells you the real reason was Jimmy Raye and terrible coaching by Marty. Had Marty agreed to hire a competent offensive mind he'd probably STILL be here. That Marty ONLY got that team to respond to him by largely uniting it behind a hatred of him also was a poor reflection on the future. That team would have had to be destroyed to ultimately succeed for Marty because most of them hated him and instead of breaking them, he caved to them and played to that hatred.

Ultimately though, an owner is judged by the intelligence behind his decisions at the time they are made. Spurrier was a great hire that would have been made by any owner. Marty was a good hire. Gibbs was a good hire. If Gibbs fails, it won't be because Snyder made a mistake. It'll be because Gibbs was unable to get the job done. And, if Gibbs is successful, it will be because Gibbs was successful.

All the owner can do within that is to provide for his football people and give them what they tell him they need. Snyder does that like NO other. We get EXACTLY what we want. If there's a mistake in what we want, the blame is on the people making the decision as to who we want, not on the owner who allows the money to make such moves happen.

[Geowhizzer]

slurp... slurp...slurp...

[phattymatty]

being a computer wiz is the same as being a gm, obviously.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Spurrier was a great hire that would have been made by any owner.

Incorrect on both counts.

[Catapult]

I don't even want to know who wrote that $@#%&^ (and I have a feeling I know what mouth-breather wrote that)...

There aren't enough tank shells in the world to blow that out of the water.

[ice grillin you]

Spurrier was a great hire

south carolina is very happy indeed