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This is the accountability needed in DC.

About 6 years ago I packed everything I owned into a 4' x 6' Uhaul and moved out to Southern CA. Of course my allegiance to the Redskins came with me. In my time out here I've met some great new friends, one of which is a die-hard 49ers fan. Up until last season, he suffered through exactly what we've been suffering through for much of the decade.

But then something up there changed, and his team is back to being competitive again. 

When Mike Nolan was relieved of his duties, the front office in SF had enough wherewithal to look within the organization and find their next great Head Coach. Enter Mike Singletary - the man, the myth, the legend. This guy is as spit-fire, in your face, won't take no shit from nobody as you could possibly ask for from your team's head coach, and his players have adopted that attitude. They are a team. They win together, and they lose together and when they lose, they are held as accountable as the coaching staff.

It's much more than him dropping his draws in the locker room to make a point. For Singletary, it's all about accountability, and that's exactly how it should be in a profession with salaries as high as those in the NFL. Take a look at this video and tell me that had the Redskins suffered as humiliating a defeat (yes, the Detroit loss was humiliating, but at least the Redskins had the opportunity to win it at the end) as the 49ers faithful endured this past Sunday that you wouldn't feel like your team was still in good hands.

49ers Humbled After Loss

Mike Singletary and the 49ers organization have built their team around football players, not bloated salary seeking me first individuals, which is what much of the Redskins roster consists of.  If an individual like Dre Bly appears to be losing sight of the common goal, he is held accountable, as you just saw in the video. Imagine if Zorn trotted DeAngelo Hall to the podium and made him apologize for not being able to tackle Jake Delhomme at the end of the game Sunday. Wouldn't you feel slightly more confident in the direction of this team?

I can only hope that someone at Redskins Park has taken notice of the transformations under way in cities like SF and ATL, and vows to do the same thing in DC. 

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I think it deserves discussing.

The situation up there was so similar to the situation here now, and look how quickly they’ve turned it around. They didn’t have near as many high salary free agents as the Redskins do now, but from day one Mike made it clear that he wanted football players on his team and if you weren’t going to be a football player then don’t even bother coming out to the park.

That’s the attitude that needs to be adopted here.

by ReggieBullits on Oct 13, 2009 2:31 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Good Post

We have nobody that really gets you excited about football in the FO or coaching staff….We need a major over haul….our V-6 has been maxed out in a V-8 race for a few years now…its finally going to blow this year…..lets get us a real set up before we break the 76 Bucs record….

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning"

by JNZO on Oct 13, 2009 2:39 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

And I like to add what's happening in NY
New York coach Rex Ryan said after the game that it was a “complete embarrassment by our defense and by me.”
“I didn’t have the defense prepared the way they should have been, and I take full responsibility for that,” Ryan said. "I’ve never been involved in a game like that in my life; our offense did tremendous and gave us every opportunity to win the game. At the end I thought about using timeouts but I said you know what, they’re not scoring. I was wrong.
“I’m just kind of at a loss for words with our defensive performance. We made that quarterback look like Dan Marino. He was pretty good though, he deserves credit. We have to do a better job at defending that long pass.
“It was just a horrendous day for our defense. You know, we’re a hell of a team and I believe that. I think we have plenty of talent, but we just have to play a hell of a lot better than we did today. Again, that’s my responsibility, and it’s also my responsibility to get the team ready to go against Buffalo next week. We’re not going to feel sorry for ourselves; we’re going to play a hell of a lot better than we did today.”

Defines the problem and now will work on fixing the problem this week in preps for Buffalo. The Redskins:

“Not everything is jelling, but that doesn’t mean we can’t overcome these things. That’s what we’re aiming to do.”

What’s the problem, undefined
How’s it going to be fixed, undefined
Who’s responsible, well….they are aiming to get it done whatever it is….That’s this week, but if you look it’s every week.

by dr WNC on Oct 13, 2009 3:06 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

A lot of people say the team takes on the identity of their coach...

The jets certainly have done that. I would love to see a hard/kick ass coach in DC!

Zorn certainly isn’t going to scare any body.

by pas493 on Oct 13, 2009 3:12 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

He scares me with his hip hip hooraying

by travisjh86 on Oct 13, 2009 3:46 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I believe this wholeheartedly

Singletary, Rex, Tomlin (the attitude was already there, but he continued it), Dungy and Belicheck (more cerebral than punch you in the mouth) are all good examples.

Where it gets hairy is the coach who’s mantra or attitude that the team is adopting has to be likable on a man-to-man level for it to be successful (I’m looking at you, Gruden).

by ReggieBullits on Oct 13, 2009 3:58 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

It's what I've...

basically been saying all along. But to be tough means you are going to do what is football right for the team, which means going against the owner. No Mike Singletary would have that, and as we know, Danny won’t have it either.

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

by Scott E on Oct 14, 2009 1:26 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I've been living in SF for the last 3 years

and have watched them go from redskins-like joke to what they are now. When I moved out here I started joking about how I brought the Skins mentality with me. They were overpaying big name Free Agents(Clements, J. Smith) throwing stupid money at non-starters(Tully Banta-Cain). Busting on High draft picks(M. Lawson, S. Spencer, Alex Smith, Rashaun Woods, Brandon Williams) and bringing in big name coordinators who didn’t fit their players(M. Martz). But they turned it around with a really strong draft in 2007 when they drafted P. Willis and traded back into the end of the First to get Joe Staley a tackle who they kept at RT for 2 years before he replaced the injury prone LT they had. Then Singletary comes in and gives them the stability and mentality they needed and now they are a pretty decent football team with a nice core.

by BayAreaBullet on Oct 14, 2009 1:30 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Imagine if Zorn trotted DeAngelo Hall to the podium and made him apologize for not being able to tackle Jake Delhomme at the end of the game Sunday. Wouldn’t you feel slightly more confident in the direction of this team?

No way. Hall’s missed tackle was very painful to watch, but it’s in a totally different category than what Bly did. Hall was not showboating in a game his team lost by 35 points. Hall made a bad football play.

To me, it looked like Hall missed the tackle not out of lack of desire but out of tentativeness. It’s like he was thinking “oh my god I can’t whiff on this guy” and as a result he was too tentative.

Remember we had a guy earlier this year who did something that was more of a character thing… Robert Henson. He apologized. And Sellers apologized when he mishandled the flag. The team is not suffering from lack of ability to apologize.

There is absolutely no question that if a Redskin did what Bly did, he would have to apologize at a press conference.

by hsoup on Oct 17, 2009 6:37 PM EDT reply actions   1 recs

I loved Bly being trotted out

I imagine Singletary said something like “You want to be on Sportscenter? Fine, I’ll get you on Sportscenter. Come out to the podium…”

by Wellsee on Oct 19, 2009 2:04 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

yes, but let’s be clear. It was not anything novel that Bly had to address the press about this. Quite possibly every other head coach in football would have had him do the same. There may even be a few coaches who would have suspended him for a game.

by hsoup on Oct 20, 2009 1:44 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

DEFENCE/OFFENCE/ZORN

ARE DB’S OR NFL PLAYERS MAKING MILLIONS OF $$$$ FOR 6 MONS. OUT OF THE YEAR OR 3 HRS A WEEK OR 12 HOURS A MONTH HOW EVERY U WANT TO LOOK AT IT, IS THERE ANY REASON THEY CAN COVER THE PERSON STANDING IN RONT OF THEM, THAT IS THE ONLY THING THEY ASK THEM TO DO FOR THREE HOURS AND THEN TACKLE THEM, I DON’T THINK THEY ARE ASKING MUCH OF THE. LETS LOOK AT WHAT WE DO FOR 40 HRS A WEEK AND IF YOUR JOR WAS TO STOCK THE SHELF AT THE LOCAL VONS/RALPHS AND U KEPT LEAVING THE SHELFS EMPTY THEY WOULD FIRE YOUR ASS IN A HEART BEAT AND THEY MAKE $500- $600 A WEEK AND DO IT 5 DAYS A WEEK/ 12 MONS A YEAR AND IT’S NOT JUST 1 SHELF IT’S 200 TO 300 SHELFS A NIGHT AND PEPOLE DO IT. I MEAN THINK ABOUT IT THERE PLAYING A GAME WHICH THEY HAVE BEEN PLAYING SINCE THEY WERE 6 YRS OLD AND FOR SOME F—IN REASON THEY STILL CAN’T GET IT RIGHT. LET SEE WERE EVERY HE GOES U GO, IF IT WAS A PIECE OF ASS AT A NIGHT CLUB A WOULD BET MY LIFE THEY WOULD BE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THAT PIECE OF ASS EVERY TIME. THEY DON’T HAVE ANY HEART RIGHT NOW AND MAYBE IT’S ME BECAUSE IN MY EYES DARRELL GREEN IS THE BEST CORNER TO EVERY PLAY THE GAME SO I FEEL THEY SHOULD AT LEAST TRY TO BE 1/2 THE CORNER/MAN HE IS. ALSO IS THERE ANY REASON C. ROGERS OR D. HALL CAN’T RETURN PUNTS SINCE THEY CAN’T COVER THEIR MAN THEY SHOULD HAVE MORE THEN ENOUGH JUICE LEFT IN THOSE LEGS TO RETURN PUNTS/KICK RETURNS.

NOW OR OFFENSE, LET’S WHERE DO I START O.K, PORTIS, HE HAS TO BE RELATED TO HELEN KELLER IS IT ME OR DOES ANYONE ELSE SEE THAT THIS FOOL RUNS RIGHT INTO THE BACK OF HIS LINEMAN 97% OF THE TIME AND THEN FALLS TO THE GROUND, HAVE U NOTICE HE CAN HANG HIS JERSY UP AFTER EVERY GAME BECAUSE HE TACKELS HIMSELF ALMOST EVERY TIME ITS LIKE HE’S PLAYING TOUCH FOOTBALL IN THE STREET. THIS GUY HAS NO HEART AND JUST ONCE I MEAN ONCE I WOULD LIKE TO HIM CUT BACK AND RUN THROUGH THE HOLES THEY ARE MAKING FOR HIM 5 FT TO HIS LEFT OR RIGHT, INSTEAD HIS KEEP RUNNING RIGHT INTO THE BACK OF 6’8 35OLB LINEMAN AND THEN FALLS ON THEM. ALSO ABOUT HIS 70+ YARD RUN LAST WEEK VS. K.C IF U WERE WATCHING AS ALWAYS HE HAD A TEAMMATE BLOCKING IN FRONT OF HIM AND AS ALWAYS HIM RAN RIGHT INTO THE BACK OF HIS BLOCKER, SO I’M THINKING MAYBE WE HAVE STEVIE WONDER AS OR RB BECAUSE HE NEVER SEES A HOLE BUT HE ALWAYS SEES THE BACK SIDE OF HIS 300 LBS + LINEMAN, HE SUCKS AND THAT TRADE WE MADE FOR HIM IS STILL KICKIN US IN THE ASS EVERY WEEK, AND WE GAVE UP A FUTURE 1ST OR 2ND RD DRAFT PK WITH THAT TRADE. ALSO THEY BENT US OVER AND STUCK IT IN ARE BACK SIDE WITH OUT LOTION, MEAN WHILE CHAMP BAILY IS CONSIDER THE BEST CB IN THE NFL AND BECAUSE OF HIS HARDWORK THEY DON’T EVEN TRY TO PASS TO HIS SIDE OF THE FIELD MOST OF THE GAME, AND THAT IS BECAUSE IT’S NOT THAT HARD WHEN THEY ASK U TO STAY IN FRONT OF THIS GUY AND IF HE RUN 10 YARDS AND TURNS AROUNDS U SHOULD BE ALSO STANDING RIGHT NEXT TO HIM. WHY CANT ARE GUYS FOLLOW THOSE INSTUCKTION, THAT’S NOT ASKING TO MUCH, LAST I CHECKED THERE GETTING PAID REAL GOOD MONEY TO FOLLOW A GUY AROUND ON A GRASS FIELD FOR 3 HOURS. MAN THERE HAS TO BE ATLEAST 5000 UNEMPLOYED MEN I COULD GET TO TRY AND DO IT BETTER THEN WHAT THEY ARE DOING. ONE THING IS FOR SURE, ARE CB’S ALWAYS LOOK GOOD WITH THERE MATCHING WAISTBANDS, CHEATS AND UNDER SHIRTS, YES I’M TALKING ABOUT U MR. FRED SMOOT, IF U PLAYED LIKE U DRESS YOURSELF U WOULD BE A PROBOWLER EVERY YEAR INSTEAD WASHINGTON RELEAST U COUPLE YEARS BACK AND LIKE A BAD RASH U FOUND YOUR WAY BACK TO MY ASS CRACK AND NOW YOU ARE LIKE A THE REST OF THE RASHES WE HAVE. SO I HOPE THEY HAVE A GARAGE SALE AND THEY DON’T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT SOMEONE LOW BALLIN US ON THE PRICE FOR U BECAUSE U WILL HAVE THE MOST FAMEIST SIGN ON YOUR CHEST AND THAT IS (PLEASE TAKE I’M FREE).

NOW LAST BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WE HIRE A MAN WHICH HAD NO PRIOR HISTORY OF CALLING OFFENCE PLAYS. THIN K ABOUT U DON’T HIRE A SANDWICH MAKER TO RE-BUILD YOUR CAR ENGINE OR HIRE A PAINTER TO RE-PIPE YOUR HOUSE. THIS MANS HISTORY IS 3/5 OR 7 STEP DROP AND LOOK LEFT OR RIGHT THEN PASS THE OTHER WAY, LAST I CHECKED THAT IS WHAT HE DID FOR I LIVING WE HE PLAYED. THIS HAS NOT EVEN COACHED A HIGH SCHOOL TEAM, I MEAN DID HE STUDTY AT THE U. OF MADDEN, IS THIS WERE HE DRAW OP HIS PLAYS. LISTS SEE I’LL TRY ONE L1/SQUARE/CIRCLE/R2/DIMOND = C.PORTIS RUN RIGHT INTO THE BACK OF YOUR LINEMAN. IF U DON’T UNDERSTAND WHAT I’M SAYING THOSE ARE THE NAMES OF THE BOTTON TO A PS2 OR 3 CONTROL WHEN YOUR MADDEN FOOTBALL, I THINK HE GOT HIS OFF. PLAYS FROM THE VIDEO GAME, MAYBE WE SHOULD JUST CUT OUT THE MIDDLE MAN AND OFFER THE JOB TO JOHN MADDEN, WHAT DO WE HAVE TO LOSE, WE WILL BE LUCKY IF WE WIN ONE MORE GAME THIS YEAR AND THAT IS BEING NICE BECAUSE U NEVER KNOW WE PLAY OAKLAND AND LAST I CHECKED WE LOST TO THEM THE LAST TIME WE PLAYED THEM 2 OR 3 YEARS AGO AND THEY HAVEN’T CHANGE A BIT, 3-13 FOR THE YEAR I HOPE THEY USE THAT PICK FOR SOMEONE WHO CAN HELP FROM DAY 1. AND NOT ANOTHER DEF. PLAYER THAT LOOKS GOOD BUT PLAY LIKE CRAP. BEFORE I GO I WOULD TO SAY/ASK I JUST ONCE WOULD LIKE TO SEE OR DB’S GET DIRTTY DURING A GAME, UNSTEAD OF LOOKING AT THERE LITTLE THEY DO AFTER THE OTHER TEAM GAINS 3O YARDS ON A PLAY AND THEY MAKE A HARD TACKLE AND THEY FEEL WE NEED TO SEE THEM JUMP AROUND AND DO A LITTLE DANCE,—-HELLO THEY GAINED 30 YRS IDIOTS, TRY THAT AFTER A BLIST AND U SACK THE QB FOR A BIG LOST, F.Y.I THAT’S WHEN U DANCE WHEN THEY I MEAN THEY ONCE AGAIN I MEAN THEY LOSE YARDS, NOT GET A FIRST DOWN AND THERE IN FG RANGE OR THE RED ZONE, ( BUT U LOOK GOOD-MR. SMOOT) AND AT THE END OF THE DAY THAT IS ALL THAT MATTERS TO U GUYS.

THANKS FOR WASTING MY TIME EVERY SUNDAY, I WOULD RATHER GO PLAY ON THE FREEWAY DURING RUSH HOUR THEN WATCH U GUY ON SUNDAY IT IS REAL SAD THAT THEY BRING A GUY TO CALL THE OFF. PLAYS AND IN A WEEK THE OFF LOOKED 150% BETTER THEN IT HAS IN THE LAST TWO YEARS, AND THAT IS BECAUSE HE HAS DONE IT FOR YEARS AND KNOW HIS JOB. WHERE JIM ZORN NEEDS TO STICK WITH WHAT HE KNOWS AND THAT IS, LAST I CHECK HE PLAYED FOR A COACH IN SEATTLE WHICH THEY CALLED HIM GROUND CHUCK, WHICH MEANS JIM RUN THE DAMM BALL AND PASS WHEN NEEDED, ALSO ZORN VERSION OF THE WEST COAST OFFENCE IS THE WORST I EVER SEEN, ALSO JIM ZORN NEVER PLAYED IN THE WEST COAST OFFENCE WHICH SHOWS ME U DON’T KNOW WHT THE HELL YOUR DOING SO PLEASE SPARE US YOUR PRIDE AND THROW UP THE WHITE FLAG, ALSO DO US ONE MORE A FAVOR TAKE THOSE OFFENCE PLAYS WITH U AND INSTALL IT AT A HIGH SCHOOL THAT U LIVE CLOSE TO, SO ATLEAST WHEN THEY FIRE U, YOUR JUST A PHONE CALL AWAY FROM BEING HOME BY DINNER AND BACK ON THE UNEMPLOYMENT LINE WHERE YOUR OFFENCE PLAYBOOK BELONGS..

DIE HARD SKINS FAN
BORN 5-20-1969 AT
WALTER REED HOSPITAL, WASHINGTON D.C

by DR DO-IZT BIG on Oct 27, 2009 8:02 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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