Getting excited during the Redskins preseason is like a freshman boy in high school getting excited about a senior varsity cheerleader smiling at him. You can dream, but it ain’t going to happen.
The Redskins are, well, still the Redskins. For all the PC nuts, the real insult is not the name, but just how abysmal the Redskins have been as an iconic representative of Native Americans.
There is no question that Scot McCloughan is the man with a plan. An incredible free agency and draft by him. A+
It looks like the Redskins defense could be good this year.
The problem will lie with the offense. Gruden, Sean McWaterboy and Coach Callahan, will be tussling about who calls the plays. It’s the perfect Haslett-like situation in the making. Sean is the offensive coordinator but too young to call plays. Gruden calls the plays but is too busy being the coach. Callahan is the real pro, but is officially the offensive line coach. A recipe for too many cooks spoiling the kitchen with no accountability.
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Say what you want, but RG3 still takes longer to read a simple defense formation than it takes you or me to read a Bazooka Joe comic.
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On top of this, remember that Gruden brought in Andre ‘greasy fingers’ Roberts, a 4th string wide receiver AT BEST, for a whopping $5 million a year. He also brought in G Sean “fall-on-Trent-Williams’-legs” Lauvao for another whopping $5+ million a year.
Let us not forget what is the now the universal NFL lesson in trade stupidity — the Snyder/Allen/Shanahan trade for RG3. Two-thirds of the people responsible for that trade remain.
Say what you want, but RG3 still takes longer to read a simple defense formation than it takes you or me to read a Bazooka Joe comic. That’s bad, but it’s not his fault. I’m sure in another 5 years he’ll be a great QB, if someone will give him the chance and he can still walk.
Of course, every defense in the NFL now knows that RG3 will hesitate and cannot read them fast enough. Even if Gruden were an offensive mastermind, the cat is out of the bag. There isn’t a case in the history of the NFL that I know of where someone learned to read a defense that quickly after not doing so in college.
If Gruden et al somehow pull that off, go ahead and ask out that varsity cheerleader.
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