"shut your mouth and block"
"he's a clown"
those are attack words and that is saying he is no good. Thats what I was responding to. Honestly Mike Sellers is one of the best FB's in the game as far as im concerned. Lorenzo Neal was another one too. They all drop passes and they all make mistakes. It happens. When Sellers leveled that Lions player we all jumped up and cheered. But let him drop one TD and...
a FB is not the reason the offense sputters so much..
Mike, I admire your passion! You are indeed a huge Redskins fan and I appreciate that greatly! But do me a favor and stop reading only what you want to read in my posts. Let's go back and review what I said about Sellers.
The first thing I said in my post was, "Mike, I like Sellers. When he is playing w/ hunger, he is awesome, a great blocker and he proved in one season with 6 TD's he can catch the ball."
Sellers is a proven FB. He made the Pro-Bowl last year and deserved it in my estimation so I acknowledged him as an awesome player! I went on to say, "But when I was at the training camp practices this summer, I was concerned about Sellers. He wasn't hungry, he was always clowning around, and when a couple of passes were thrown his way, he dropped them."
This is crucial for the point I am trying to make, all day long when I was there he was more interested in horse play and clowning not paying attention to running routes and paying attention to coaches. And when the ball was thrown his way during 8 on 8 drills on two separate occasions he dropped passes that hit him in the hands. Twice this happened and although I did not play football, I was involved in teams sports at an international level and I can tell you that when you practice hard, you play hard!
Mike, I sat 15ft away from the field and after taking over 500 pictures that day, the memory from that day that stuck with me the most was what a clown Sellers was on and off the field. Then, late in the pre-season he was the leader of a group of veterans that participated in hazing some of the rookies. Well correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Zorn emphatically denounce any sort of hazing?
I may be reading entirely too much into this, but as we watch our beloved Redskins under perform some are making the case that Zorn may be losing this team. I suggest that he may have lost it already by allowing juvenile antics on the practice field early on in Training Camp and pre-season.
Maybe I should not have used words like "shut up and play"? My intention was not to blame anything on Sellers, he dropped a pass that a few years ago under Gibbs would have been a certain completion. I am merely suggesting his focus and discipline may not be the same as it once once.
And most of all Mike, as a leader of this team, Mike Sellers needs to pull that catchable pass down for a TD!