Redskins Lunchbox: Buccaneers Preview & A Message for Bruce Allen

by Kevin Ewoldt on Dec 8, 2010 12:43 PM EST in Xfinity Sponsored Posts

Do you want a break from Haynesworth? Good....because we filmed this hours before all the drama broke with his interview on 106.7 THE FAN. The highlight of the show is Ken and I sending Bruce Allen a very clear message of all the Redskins blunders the past decade and how he seems to be following down that same path. We also set you up for the Bucs game and make our predictions.

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The Culture Change that Needs to Happen

Shanny/Allen is the kemotherapy and Cerrato’s draft picks and free agent signings are the cancer. I think we need to stop criticizing Shanny/Allen because it takes a near miracle to rid the body of cancer with one dose of kemotherapy. They have begun the process (devin thomas is gone, haynesworth suspended and soon to be gone). Good news when you reduce the size of the tumor with the first treatment.

Secondly, I now realize it’s going to take quite some time to get all of the players we need to be competitive. Because cerrato ignored the offensive line for so long, we basically have to start from scratch. Trent williams is the first piece to solving that glaring problem. If we can get two more top starting O-linemen in this years draft we’ll be 60% of the way there. Then we need 2WR/2CB/3LB/1FS/1NT/1DE. So conservatively I think it would take 5 years of drafting to even come close truly being a perennial playoff contender.

I’m willing to be patient enough to wait that long, hell I’ve waited 15 years already, what’s another 5. However, the impatient fans will constantly call for coaching changes, GM changes, QB changes, etc. Leave McNabb in there to take the punishment while we address all of our other needs.

Final piece to the puzzle will be a QB. With a good defense, good offensive line, and WRs to throw to, the young QB will be positioned to succeed.

But to the fans I beg of you to be patient because this is a huge hole that Vinny dug for us. It will take some time to get out of.

by Kurtstack on Dec 8, 2010 1:19 PM EST reply actions 1 recs

I think we need to stop criticizing Shanny/Allen.

I will continue to do so as long as they keep trading away draft picks.

Hogs Haven. On Twitter. And Facebook.

by Kevin Ewoldt on Dec 8, 2010 1:59 PM EST up reply actions

That's not a really fair way to look at it...

Such a small sample size.

by Parks Smith on Dec 8, 2010 2:14 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs

had to rec you…lol funniest post ever! it will take 15 years to get to a significant sample size lol

by les boulez bomber on Dec 8, 2010 7:40 PM EST up reply actions

too bad

When I got pulled over for doin 75 on G/W, I told the cop that the blue Chevy was going faster than me. Know what he said? “Too bad, I got you right now.”
Well, that’s what I say about Shanahan/Allen. Yes, Zorn/Cerrato was worse, but we’ve got Shanallen now. Just because the guy before you screwed up worse, doesn’t give you a pass for screwing up too.
I’m hoping that Shanallen haven’t fallen into the same trap as everyone else that’s come thru here. That is to say, I hope they haven’t become a victim of Snyder’s blank paycheck payroll system, which includes the "we’ll give you double the blue book value and/or throw in some extra draft picks for your used parts.
So far, its not looking good. They basically wasted this year, which SHOULD HAVE been the start of the rebuilding process. Now we have to wait and see what they have in store for is next year. Am I ready to declare this regime failure? No, but if they don’t do things differently this coming off-season, then my fork’s coming out.
Personally, I don’t care what Shanny did in Denver. (which, by the way, wasn’t as great as some people think) I care what he does HERE and NOW.
Now I know some people will want to point out that we weren’t gonna win a bunch of games this year anyway. I agree. But when we got Shanahan, I expected the fundamentals to change. I expected to have a team that, while not as talented as other teams, would be at least AS prepared. My exact words to a bunch of people were "at least with Shanahan, I know we won’t have to worry about barely beating, or losing to, the dregs of the league like Detroit and St. Louis. Well, so much for that. Turns out “My way or the Highway” Mike can field a team just as unprepared as any J. Zorn or S. Spurrier out there.
Here’s to hoping he can learn from his mistakes better than those guys.

by CJHutch on Dec 8, 2010 4:37 PM EST via mobile up reply actions

good analogy

SpottieOttieDopaliscious

by Rekka on Dec 8, 2010 5:46 PM EST up reply actions

Preparation

Is on the players just as much as the coach. I think the problem is that we have at least a handful of guys who don’t take preparation seriously. Until Shanny can purge the team of the guys who don’t want to buy into his practice/preparation methods, we’ll see more of the same. The problem with the team leadership, and also with the fan base, is that we lack the patience needed to build a consistent cohesive “team”. Cooley mentioned it in an interview last week that it’s just nearly impossible to get anything going with the roster and coaching turnovers ever year. You can never establish consistency. I would like to see Shanallen have at least 3 years to see if they can establish that consistency and “team” first philosophy in the locker room. Too many individuals who didn’t buy into “team” during the Cerrato era.

by Kurtstack on Dec 10, 2010 8:16 AM EST up reply actions

“we need 2WR/2CB/3LB/1FS/1NT/1DE”

- every year we add one legit young starter through the draft (usually our first round pick which is always in the top half of the first round
- every two years we add a guy who starts for us for a couple of years before we accept he is not good enough (aka derrick dockery)
-every two to three years we add a legitimate starter through free agency (l fletcher and d hall are the only two on the starting roster currently)

you noted needs at 10 positions (half the team almost). you dont even need to do the math…i will do it for you…

in 8 years, we will have 8 starters from the draft, and 3 from free agency…there you go…your 10 replacements with an extra

but…shanallan turned one of the oldest teams older and blew chances to add youth last year…in 8 years, the only starters today that might still be starting then is:
t williams
b orakpo,
l landry
gano

so we need the 10 you mentioned plus another 10 replacement starters

this is why i am pissed…this team does not need band aids. this is not an infection you put a little neosporin on and wait for time to cure us…it is fucking cancer to the fan base.

get out the knife and start fucking cutting…keep the most professional starter at each major position to mentor (OL, WR, RB, QB, DL, LB, and DB/CB. keep the four good ones we have and trade everyone else over 23 that can net us a draft pick…

we could probably trade (for something)…AH, carter, moss, cooley
mcintosh, mcnabb, portis, and rogers are all free agents…which is why we should have done this last year…we would have saved the #38 pick, this years 4th rounder, and picked up three more picks last year.

this is why i am pissed…at the current rate…the math never gets us there…its a recipe for .500 ball at best

by les boulez bomber on Dec 8, 2010 8:11 PM EST up reply actions

How cool of a phrase...

would Kemotherapy be if Ma’ake somehow became good again?

It’s chemo-, though.

by Reedskin on Dec 9, 2010 12:34 AM EST up reply actions

sending messages to Bruce Allen

Its been 12 games and this team is still not in the super bowl. How many more Sundays must Iwait to have my super bowl party, Mr. Allen? Do I have to set myself on fire again to get my message across to the redskin coaches management that I promised to quit drinking after the Super Bowl party? Now I have to go beat the wife and kids again because I am so angry! Thanks a lot, Mr. Allen.

by hambonejackson on Dec 8, 2010 2:06 PM EST reply actions

Apparently Urban Meyer is going to be available

We should hire a hot shot college coach from Florida.

by Parks Smith on Dec 8, 2010 2:18 PM EST reply actions

And Wannstedt can be the def coordinator. super bowl.

Hogs Haven. On Twitter. And Facebook.

by Kevin Ewoldt on Dec 8, 2010 2:50 PM EST up reply actions

then trade McNabb and some more draft picks for Tebow

Superbowl-bound!

by Broda on Dec 8, 2010 3:13 PM EST up reply actions

I prefer hiring ex HDs

Who work for ESPN and who promote their kids to coordinaters

by hambonejackson on Dec 8, 2010 3:22 PM EST up reply actions

TO 2011

Indy, here we come!!!!

by brettpedigo on Dec 8, 2010 6:31 PM EST up reply actions

if they arent even good enough to make it to the monday night or sunday night football broadcast booth, am not interested lol

by les boulez bomber on Dec 8, 2010 8:14 PM EST up reply actions

we need a bigger payout then AH to get Terrell Owens...

…then we will be super bowl bound. Give up all of our draft picks and trade a bunch of losers for TO. McNabb could throw to TO every down and we will be sure to win. (This is, by-the-way, a Daniel Snyder dream sequence, just after a lobster lunch with Allen).

After so many years of this, why should I think any different. There will be more big money, big ego, no performance busts in the future – guaranteed.

by poopo on Dec 9, 2010 8:43 AM EST reply actions