2006 Point & Laugh at the taterskins thread

[qwert246]

G_F loves us

That's nice.

[General_Failure]

So they trade up and reach for a LB with bad knees?
HAHAHAHAHAHA!

You laugh, but keep in mind where he's going to be in 3 or 4 years.

[Wingspan]

i was thinking the coaching angel touched him too hard

[MadMarchHare]

C'mon, GF, have some faith.  Even lab rats figure out not to drink from the water bottle with the electrodes sticking out of it.

[Rome]

It appears that Taylor has been touched by Coach Gibbs after all...

taterskins. Last year, safety Sean Taylor defiantly skipped off-season workouts and wouldn't return Washington coach Joe Gibbs' calls, saying his off-season time was his own.

He changed his story yesterday, saying he would have been a participant last year had it not been for "some complications," which he did not explain.

[Beermonkey]

It appears that Taylor has been touched by Coach Gibbs after all...

While he may have been touched, I don't think his holy aura did it's job on ST.

http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=100914

Taylor gets fresh starts because he is immensely talented, with all the tool of a Pro Bowl player who could rule his position for years to come. The taterskins have punished him -- he was forced to work with the second-team unit Friday after missing a large chunk of the voluntary spring workouts -- but the message doesn't always seem to get through.

"As long as you're here from the end of July to January, or whenever the season ends, that's all your team really cares about," Taylor said.

Gibbs couldn't disagree more.

..... He said he decided to attend some of the offseason work this year for the sake of team chemistry.

"Everybody's entitled to their own opinion as far as offseason goes," said Taylor, who also recently became a father.

[Rome]

Ooooooooooh... he was "punished" by having to play with the second teamers?

Wow. 

Draconian measures, to say the least.

[General_Failure]

Someone bred with that genius. Greeeeeaaaaaaaat.

[MDS]

Skins laws:

Joe Gibbs is holy, thou shalt have no other coach before him

thou shalt not covet thy neighbors quarter back

thou shalt not boo thy own team.

Every fan should always have a Skins jersey

Coach Gibbs is the MAN!

[PhillyPhreak54]

And it starts again...Extremeskins covering the mini-camp

Theres nothing like walking towards that front entrance at taterskins Park. Its impossible not to feel your pulse quicken by 20 beats.

Will Adam Archeluta, Andre Carter, and a newly focused Sean Taylor put fear in the hearts of opposing offenses?

Nothing worse than a rice rocket. But a taterskins ricer?!? Nasty

On one play during the offense versus defense, Gregg Williams was screaming at his guys even before the ball was hiked to Todd Collins. "Look right! Look at the coverage! Communicate! Come on!" He was simultaneously yelling at four different players during the same play. That's impressive.

One aspect of today that I really liked was seeing the referees so involved. When a ref blew his whistle, he always ran over to the player he called the penalty on and explained why he threw the flag. It's almost as if the two or three referees on hand are an extension of the coaching staff.

And THAT, my friends, is the taterskins way. Sure every team brings in the refs. But in Washington they are not just there to point out penalties, they are there to make sure none of Gibbs' Angels do no wrong.

[PhillyPhreak54]

The biggest thrill of the day for me, as it was last year, and would be for any die-hard fan, was getting to ask Joe Gibbs a question. Following up on the good ju-ju I created last year (asking him if we'd finally make the playoffs), I asked Gibbs about the importance of the 5 game winning streak to end last season, and the impact (or not) of that feat on the psyche of this team. He gave a great answer, like only Joe Gibbs can.

Finally, if any of our observations this weekend seem somewhat vanilla and bland, its because we're not going to give away some of the other stuff we might have seen (such as interesting formations, trick plays, or the like). We're fans, and we don't want the enemy seeing anything before this coaching staff wants them to. We'd like to, trust me, but there is some stuff we can't talk about.

Vomit inducing.

[PhillyPhreak54]

But the highlight of my conversation with Sam Huff was when he noticed that all of the players who weren't involved in the offense versus defense drills just so happened to be lined up across the field conveniently blocking the view of the reporters. He looked at me straight faced and said "Joe Gibbs is afraid someone will figure out he might run off tackle – like he did when Riggo was here. I mean, come on. No one saw Riggo coming. He could win three more Super Bowls and he'd still be afraid a reporter was going to give something away." Just too funny for words

This shtein is too good! Someone tell Sam Huff that teams line up like that from high school on up. It's not to keep reporters from seeing whats going on - its just how they line up during those drills. If Gibbs was so worried about reporters as the "too funny for words" Sam Huff points out, he'd close the portion of practice where they run plays.

Bubba Tyer keeps the players hydrated with plenty of frequent water breaks. Tyer is a genuinely warm and funny man. He came into the pressroom last evening and was cracking joke after joke. We have to do a chat with this guy this season. Today's session opened again with team stretching,

Wait a minute. The trainer gives the players water to drink?!?!?! OMG!

And he has them stretch?!? Groundbreaking shtein here, folks. Give ES an Pulitzer.

Moss bobbled the ball, and doing something he rarely does, dropped a very catchable pass. He looked right at me and asked 'did you get that?' to which I replied 'yep'. Moss got his payback after practice though when I asked him a question about the lack of a big possession receiver and he said 'we didn't have one last year did we and how did that work out?'. Ouch. I had no clever snappy comeback

[ice grillin you]

classic stuff phreak

[MDS]

That had to be all Art (or maybe Bubba or Om).

[PhillyGirl]

taterskins | Sellers lays out Archuleta
Sun, 18 Jun 2006 07:27:05 -0700

David Elfin, of the Washington Times, reports minicamp drills are expected to be non-contact drills, but Washington taterskins FB Mike Sellers knocked S Adam Archuleta off his feet after one short pass during practice Saturday, June 17.