Sorry El but you in fact are the one who is wrong here. I watched almost every game on the internet although I am jealous you got to see them live lol.
Perhaps saying every play was hyperbole but looking at the stats bears me out far more than it does you,the percentage of plays that he was in actually playing, combined with the number of impact plays he made combined with the fact that despite not starting and not really playing much in the base package clearly show that he not only made a huge impact when he was in but that he must have been making plays most of the time he was in. it is an indictment of the staff that he wasnt used more and used correctly, it literally is cutting off the nose to spite the face. when you add in that AC actually played very well when used correctly and that we have at least 4 others who would benefit immediately from the switch back, its simply stupid to continue this. and the stats only bear witness to this.
The Vick thing we will have to agree to disagree on, I saw a guy go down and lay still while not stretched out, look at how he is holding his one leg,implying to me that he was cramping up and trying to move for a second, it was really played out by the media. but to be honest and candid, the way he was treated that game, was pretty much the end of AH in DC.
I also saw a guy in the Eagles game who was dominant the first few plays that he was in in the eagles game TOO BAD THEY DIDNT PUT HIM IN UNTIL WE WERE DOWN 14.
Please find me a game where one man was blocking him with little or no effort? that simply never happened, now if you argued that the few times he was in with the base defence that he was washed out of his gap, I wouldnt argue that, I did see him start upfield then remember to stay in the gap and stop, and once he stopped moving his feet was pushed out of the gap, but I also recall several plays where he literally blew up the man across from him.
The idea that he was halfassing it was made by the media, and we as redskins fans should know better than anyone what garbage that is, ffs ask yourself, would shannahan have remained silent on this if he had been "halfassing" the entire season?