2008 Point & Laugh at the skins thread

[PhillyPhreak54]

Where some businessmen see service lapses, Dan Snyder sees dollar signs.
Take, for example, the long lines in front of FedExField on game days. Complaints about ridiculous waits and missed kickoffs at the biggest stadium in the NFL have been mounting for years.
Another owner would just add entrances and hire folks to staff them so customers could get in by game time.
Not Snyder.
Over the weekend, he started selling something called "Fast Lanes" at the Official taterskins Store at Tysons Corner.
Those who pay the $100-per-season fee (on top of regular season ticket costs) get a special ID card that allows them to walk past the hoi polloi huddled at the regular turnstiles to be patted down by stadium security. Beginning with the 2008 home opener against New Orleans, Fast Lane cardholders will enter through doors now reserved for premium ticketholders.
"It's a red-carpet service," says Luke Thomas, executive vice president of FLO Corp., a Chantilly, Va.-based security firm that partnered with Snyder on the Fast Lanes venture. "Not a security service."
To this end, FLO's main product has been offering similar no-wait opportunities to air travelers. And, at the Fast Lanes rollout event at Tysons, FLO's sales staff told potential buyers that taterskins card holders will also be able to bypass regular security measures at 14 U.S. airports, including Dulles.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Damn i miss my boy so much...i was just watching some flim on ST and i just started Balling....RIP Sean i will never let you be forgotten....

28 year old man.

[ice grillin you]

holy farging shtein

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Damn i miss my boy so much...i was just watching some flim on ST and i just started Balling....RIP Sean i will never let you be forgotten....

28 year old man.

He went out to play some basketball?

[General_Failure]

Yes. Outside of the school. Then some guys started making trouble, his mom got scared, and before you know it she ships his ass off to Cali to live with uncle Shredder and his WASPy kids.

[Quasimoto]

And then we fail next year?

And the year after?

And the decade following?

Will you still be a fan?

Honestly, I want to know that. There seems to be a sense of defeatism on this board, calls to wear paper bags over our heads, and a bunch of "I swear, I'm gonna jump!" posts.

For me, I'll stay. I'll always stay. I didn't grow up with Super Bowl champion teams. I grew up right after Gibbs left, with Robiskie, Pettibone, Norv, Schottenheimer, Spurrier, Gibbs II, and now Zorn. I'm not spoiled like half of you. I don't follow other teams, because frankly I couldn't care less about them than to make fun of my friends who cheer for them.

I care about my team. I always will. I don't care if, but certainly pray that we don't, we lose from now until forever. These are MY taterskins, and I won't give them up, ever. If you're sick of a losing team, and I told you today that we would ALWAYS be saying "Next year", that we would be losing while Dallas, New York, and Philadelphia won Super Bowl after Super Bowl, then would you stay?

I would.

Would you?

[PhillyPhreak54]

Where the hell have you been? Jail? Held hostage in a foreign country?

[Quasimoto]

Where the hell have you been? Jail? Held hostage in a foreign country?

Yeah, I was on Locked Up Abroad. 

Work took over for a while and I was too busy to troll the internet (either that or didn't feel like.)  Now work is light but school picked back up so I have some more free time.

I'm surprised anyone on this site even noticed I was gone. 

[PhillyPhreak54]

You haven't missed much. Other than the DeSean Jackson gang bang.

I noticed when you posted and realized I hadn't seen you since before MDS hit puberty.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

You haven't missed much. Other than the DeSean Jackson gang bang.

I noticed when you posted and realized I hadn't seen you since before MDS hit puberty.

He's been gone a lot longer than a week.

[ice grillin you]

You haven't missed much. Other than the DeSean Jackson gang bang.

I noticed when you posted and realized I hadn't seen you since before MDS hit puberty.

He's been gone a lot longer than a week.

ha

[PhillyPhreak54]

'SKINS THRILLED TO HEAR COLSTON IS OUT
Posted by Mike Florio on September 10, 2008, 2:21 p.m.

As it turns out, that whole injury schadenfreude thing applies not only to NFL fans but also to NFL teams.

Per a league source, the Washington taterskins were "doing handstands and somersaults" in response to the news that Saints receiver Marques Colston will miss Sunday's game between the two teams.

As we hear it, the taterskins think that having Colston out of play will make it much easier to control tight end Jeremy Shockey and running back Reggie Bush.

We're also told that the four-to-six-week estimate on Colston's thumb injury is a bit optimistic, and that he'll be out closer to six weeks.  He suffered the injury during the third quarter of Sunday's game against the Bucs, but continued to play.

Like it'll matter since their offense is so putrid. Do some hand stands and somersaults when Campbell and Zorn know how to run an offense.

[ice grillin you]

do you really believe what PFT says?

[paco]

I had to revisit this gem by Art.  Thought Id share:

http://www.taterskins.com/news/newsDetail.jsp?id=16764

I just crush poor Mark with this .

ExtremeSkins Fan View: Let's Make a Deal?
By Arthur Mills
ExtremeSkins.com
April 26, 2006



Now is not the time for the timid. It's certainly not time for the early morning trip to the Late Night Pickup window at Wendy's.


The Washington taterskins enter the NFL draft with seven picks. Typically one might consider a seven-round draft with seven picks as pretty ok until we check the picks and find out one is in the second round, one is in the fifth, and the next five are in rounds six (3 picks here) and seven.

So, imagine my surprise to learn the concept of trading up in this draft was likened to a nutritionally empty fast food excursion such that it felt good, but lacked sound decision making. I look at where the taterskins pick and I have to ask, "Where's the beef?"

In presenting the idea of standing pat in the draft (or, heck, moving DOWN to accumulate more picks) Mark Steven nailed his roster evaluation. We're plum full up folks. There aren't a ton of obvious needs.

Weak-side linebacker is a position the taterskins could look at for an impact starter in this draft, if one is available. There is probably room in the secondary for a good, young prospect. There might be a spot for depth on the offensive line if the right prospect is there.

At the end of August when the taterskins make their final cuts, the roster will be comprised almost entirely by names already on it. It's not very likely seven players will be drafted and kept by this team, especially where the selections are being made. Realistically, only the second-round pick could wind up making the roster to start the season.

What's the point of accumulating seven bodies when you likely won't be able to keep six of them around?

Standing pat is a five-card stud move in a hold'em world. It's time to go all in.

The taterskins need to minimize bodies and maximize quality in this draft. There's a reason the taterskins have been inviting a number of high quality prospects in for visits. You may believe it's because the team thinks one of these guys could fall to them with the 53rd pick in the draft.

It's actually because the team intends to get a couple of them using four second-day picks (the last-pick in the seventh round is a compensatory pick, which can not be traded) and dipping in to picks next year as needed to pull it off. It's the only move we can make and it's far less wasteful than accumulating or using picks we can't possibly accommodate on the roster.

Right now there are scores of you reading this stunned as you hold up traffic in the left lane, fretting over "the future," "we need to develop our own picks," and other such nonsense. Come up to speed boys.

The taterskins use draft picks to acquire young players (most of the former draft picks even) who have already proven they can play in the NFL. The team's removed the guess work of the NFL draft and development time with drafted players in acquiring guys like Brandon Lloyd for a couple of picks.

The draft is for teams like San Francisco who need scores of bodies to fill roster spots while lacking ownership willing to spend money on proven players, not teams largely ready to go, able to compete who need just a few finishing touches with ownership willing to fill them with cash if he has to.

We have the immense luxury of maximizing the quality we get out of a draft because we own the NFL free agency period. Don't be afraid of it. Don't fear that we do it differently, therefore incorrectly.

I'm not proposing an empty move up to appeal to our base fan instincts.

We're built with young players who will largely be in their prime of their careers when he hands the reigns over to the next coach. We need to get as many "keepers" as possible now. To do that we need to maximize the quality of the prospects we draft. Moving up is the only legitimate option, even at the cost of picks in coming drafts.

While some of you simply can't read this and avoid the dull, "we can't keep trading away our future," retort, I have to tell you what you're missing in all this.

The team traded a few picks last year to acquire a second first-round pick in Jason Campbell. Though the value of that trade wound up favoring us, given where our pick would have been, the value of that trade goes beyond draft value charts.

Jason Campbell is the future. He had a pressure-free year to develop in the NFL under one of the most capable coaching staffs in league history. He got to learn from a smart veteran QB like Mark Brunell. He saw the professionalism and team-first attitude of a capable backup like Patrick Ramsey.

But, more, he got a year to develop in the family Joe Gibbs turns his football teams into. He got touched by a coaching angel.

Where the team was aging and overpaid in a new cap era the last time Gibbs left, limiting the lasting impact of his time here, this time around Gibbs will leave a roster that will have core guys together for years beyond his final departure as our coach.

We need as many quality players as we can get in here to understand what this type of team is about. The more time people spend with Joe Gibbs and the men he's surrounded himself with on his staff, the better off this team will be when he next has to go.

The players we get today will have time to understand the type of excellence and dedication necessary to win and keep winning in the league. It is right to say we're a team ready to compete now. That's exactly why you get the highest quality players possible now. You get them to experience winning and understand what it takes to win, so next time Gibbs leaves, winning won't leave with him.

[ice grillin you]

he said if the taterskins drafted seven players six wouldnt even make the team thats how good they were