Last night's game is confirmation in case anyone needed it that the Redskins season from a competitive standpoint is over.
What we have to look forward to now is clearing the decks for the next GM/Coach and helping that process by letting the younger players on the roster get game experience to see if they are part of the future resurgence here.
Davis is going to play regularly now that Cooley is out for the season. But we need to continue to see Thomas out there instead of ARE.
Cornelius Griffin is consistently hurting in each contest. We need to give those reps next to AH to Kedric Golston and see if he is going to be able to step up in 2010 to be a starter.
At defensive end, we really need to see more and more of Jarmon and Alexander which has been slowly happening over the past 2-3 weeks.
Orakpo needs to see more reps in Daniels' place at LDE.
I am wondering if the team needs to start Orakpo at LDE in coming weeks and temporarily let HB Blades start at SAM acknowledging that he is best suited to playing inside?
Unfortunately, there's nothing to do on the offensive line except to see if Levi Jones at age 28 is a guy we can take off the scrap heap and re-energize as a guy that can have a future here.
He may or may not have anything left, but he is still under 30 and in my mind a guy with much better odds than Mike Williams to be a contributor here beyond 2009.
Heyer was awful at LT. There is no way that Jones, who replaced him in the second half, shouldn't finish the season there.
I liked Heyer back in 2007 and thought he would come along. The problem is that he seemed to hit a plateau where he just isn't going to get any better than what we have seen.
Montgomery is best suited to playing center, so I don't know if we are really learning anything about him by using him at RG, except to note that Chad Rinehart's performance is SOOOO poor Bugel is that embarrassed to use him at all.
As Gruden said last night, the cupboard is not entirely bare. There are younger players with talent on this team, especially on defense.
But the club does not play together.
The practices are not rigorous and the players seem to be walking through them mentally each week.
That portion of it will only change when Zorn is gone.
I agree with Jimmy Johnson though that we have seen enough of Campbell to believe that he is best suited to being a #2 in the NFL.
And running backs tend to decline quickly - the watch on #26 needs to be there.
If 2010 is an uncapped year the Redskins need to evaluate Portis' long-term cap numbers, which could swamp the team and force Washington to strip down like San Francisco had to do at the start of the decade.
ARE at this point should be a depth receiver and should be removed from special teams, he's simply giving away too many points on muffs and never breaks any longer runs to set up field position.
What we have to look forward to now is clearing the decks for the next GM/Coach and helping that process by letting the younger players on the roster get game experience to see if they are part of the future resurgence here.
Davis is going to play regularly now that Cooley is out for the season. But we need to continue to see Thomas out there instead of ARE.
Cornelius Griffin is consistently hurting in each contest. We need to give those reps next to AH to Kedric Golston and see if he is going to be able to step up in 2010 to be a starter.
At defensive end, we really need to see more and more of Jarmon and Alexander which has been slowly happening over the past 2-3 weeks.
Orakpo needs to see more reps in Daniels' place at LDE.
I am wondering if the team needs to start Orakpo at LDE in coming weeks and temporarily let HB Blades start at SAM acknowledging that he is best suited to playing inside?
Unfortunately, there's nothing to do on the offensive line except to see if Levi Jones at age 28 is a guy we can take off the scrap heap and re-energize as a guy that can have a future here.
He may or may not have anything left, but he is still under 30 and in my mind a guy with much better odds than Mike Williams to be a contributor here beyond 2009.
Heyer was awful at LT. There is no way that Jones, who replaced him in the second half, shouldn't finish the season there.
I liked Heyer back in 2007 and thought he would come along. The problem is that he seemed to hit a plateau where he just isn't going to get any better than what we have seen.
Montgomery is best suited to playing center, so I don't know if we are really learning anything about him by using him at RG, except to note that Chad Rinehart's performance is SOOOO poor Bugel is that embarrassed to use him at all.
As Gruden said last night, the cupboard is not entirely bare. There are younger players with talent on this team, especially on defense.
But the club does not play together.
The practices are not rigorous and the players seem to be walking through them mentally each week.
That portion of it will only change when Zorn is gone.
I agree with Jimmy Johnson though that we have seen enough of Campbell to believe that he is best suited to being a #2 in the NFL.
And running backs tend to decline quickly - the watch on #26 needs to be there.
If 2010 is an uncapped year the Redskins need to evaluate Portis' long-term cap numbers, which could swamp the team and force Washington to strip down like San Francisco had to do at the start of the decade.
ARE at this point should be a depth receiver and should be removed from special teams, he's simply giving away too many points on muffs and never breaks any longer runs to set up field position.
