Well...
While I agree with Williams as Head Coach, Saunders Assistant Head Coach Offense(gotta get these titles right) but what is the problem with Portis and Moss?? I may have missed something you wrote about them, but they aren't huge bad factors in evaluating the skins..Moss would be fantastic if we had a BIG receiver across from him and altho portis is not the runner he once was, he's still better than 70% of the running backs out there.
They put anyone other than Williams in at head coach, he's gone and we're back to square one.
...I agree Moss would be more effective if we had a big possession guy to compliment him. But we don't. Santana is a #2, at best, and I think he is being paid like a #1 and figures into the psyche of the team as a #1. He has come up short several times this year with key drops and key turnovers which just really irked me including the one Collins put in his hands early in the Seattle game on third down. Coulda been a momentum changer, if not game, when we really needed it.
If we got a big guy and it worked within the inner dynamics of the team, sure, keep him, but, I am mad at him for some bad plays and I also don't like the constant ham string issues. Gary Clark had problems but just seemed to make plays when he had to on Sunday. Probably my biggest knock on Moss is I am sick of this 'U' identity. You're a freaking Redskin or get lost.
Which leads me to Portis. On top of the 'U' thing, what is our scheme? Are we a power running team with power blocking schemes and power types on the line or are we a Denver/KC zone team with appropriate personnel? CP has also hurt the team at bad times this year with turnovers and he just looked slow on Saturday, like he just wasn't mentally ready to play. He seemed to miss a couple of pick ups on the blitz as well. And for that matter, Sellers looked like his head was elsewhere and he ain't even a U guy.
Again, if we had more help at WR and if we were clearer on running scheme, the on field issues become moot, which is not the players fault. Then I can just be annoyed with the 'U' thing.
I am just so unsure of what has actually gone on behind the scenes with the team, the players faults become magnified as what they do on the field ends up being the only thing to go by; performance.
In the press conference today Gibbs said something very telling; that he thought when he came back that he could do things different than his first time around in order to avoid the heavy hours and endless work; thus the bureaucracy he built thus we never got Joe Gibbs I, the coach, we got Joe Gibbs II 'the corporation builder' and I've railed against that for a couple years now.
There is a dynamic missing when the coach and everyone else isn't constantly on the chopping block to perform; that's just the nature of the game. It's not nice and it's not 'fair' but it does provide that edge you need when you are competing at the highest level against a bunch of other people trying to beat you.
The way things have been done is now, in my view, going to be very vulnerable to flying apart into a million pieces simply because the dynamic presence of Joe Gibbs was the only thing holding together a Rube Goldberg contraption. I think it's time to start from scratch with a young coach and a young GM and that means rebuilding the team and that means getting draft picks for Portis and Moss.
I mean, this team was probably headed to 8-8 or 7-9 before Sean and JC's injury. It overcame what it was to play better as opposed to a good team falling apart under those kind of blows. The offense has been the constant under achiever around here. Portis and Moss may fit into a new future, maybe not.
The NFL is a scoring league now as evidenced by Indy and the Pats and even Dallas. If Saunders can have his way, his system puts up points. Couple that with a Greg Williams defense and that sounds good to me.
You are totally right; no Greg means start over. If Greg gets the job, will he be happy with a Saunders offense or will he want a ball control O to give his guys breaks? Does Campbell really even fit into a Saunders offense? I think we know he doesn't, at all. At least at this point.
Bottom line is Snyders not about to quit playing with his toy which means whomever is in charge will only be so up to a limited point. There will be no GM who isn't a pal. Whereas Joe might have been able to manage a TO even though it seems sure Joe made sure that didn't happen to begin with, will Williams be able to resist the owner wanting his shny new things that just don't fit, the Jeff Georges, and so on?
Again, as messed up as the Joe Gibbs hydra was, it was at least kept in some sort of order by Joe's huge presence.
I am not excited about his leaving. I think an asylum just lost the only thing that kept it from complete chaos.
What do I know? I grow flowers.
No, can't be... A move by Gibbs and gang to buy the Skins? Maybe Dan is tossing it in?????????
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of a runner. There is no big-run left in him. He trips easily, he stops too often looking for openings making it easy for the defense to catch him, and he hardly ever gets a big run anymore. He runs like he's afraid he's going to get injured again. I thought he should have been gone half way through the season.
I too like Portis. Not much at first, but I saw what he can bring to a team - a sense of humor, his characters to make folks laugh, sensitivity and the ability to not only run here and there but stay in as a blocking back. Great for play action. Between loosing Taylor about 6 weeks ago, then today hearing Gibbs is stepping down in his CURRENT position, hearing we get rid of Portis just may set me over the edge 
