Ok, that's funny! Sad, but funny.
This is interesting; Boswell
Thomas Boswell - In Big Picture for Washington Redskins Organization, Focus Disappeared Long Ago - washingtonpost.com
This week, Clinton Portis said he thought the Redskins had the most talent in the NFL. Comments like that have been common in the Redskins' locker room for the past 10 years -- regardless of all available evidence. Not only is the view tolerated at Redskins Park, it is encouraged and marketed. Where does this fallacy arise? In the owner's suite, where the price of players is equated with their performance?
They refuse to define themselves by the final scoreboard but, instead, cling to their own private view of themselves and their far higher value -- sometimes based on their performances in other years or even on other teams.
After a wonderful 10-catch, 178-yard game, wide receiver Santana Moss fell into the deepest and worst snare -- and one that constantly catches the Redskins. Moss said many reasonable things after this defeat. But he also said the magic words that always make my skin crawl in a locker room. "We are the better team," he said.
They have the view of their worth based on WHAT THEY GET PAID.
This IS an incredibly talented group of players, as usual. Maybe the most talented in the league. However, that is irrelevant. We've all seen talented teams get beat time and time and time again by better...teams.
The Redskins are not a good team. They're always good at this position, weak at that one, great at this position, horrible at this one. It's a mish mash collection full of shiny baubles and over looked duds.
The team, every team, is a reflection of the owner and his values, of how he does business and what he values.
Slow and steady? Not us?
Best coaching? Nope.
Get it done or else? No.
Just win, baby? Ha.
Dan Snyder likes the splash and the shiny things and the big signings. That is what he wants to do, that is what he does. He sees this from the promotional side of a business and that's what he does. That is what he's done since day one be it Dion, Bruce Smith, Spurrier, Gibbs, Portis, Lloyd and Archuletta, all the flashy #1's who all play the same position, DB's, Rogers, Springs, Taylor, Hall, Landry, or the latest and, perhaps, biggest of them all, Haynesworth and his record contract.
Even now, everyone expects that Snyder is working on the next BIG THING, Cowher or Shanahan or, who knows, Knute Rockne?
There are great players galore. There's just no team in all of this.
