Recklessness

I'm not surprised at all that Mike Shanahan risked RGIII's career in an attempt to win a Wild Card Round game. Mike Shanahan does not care about his players, they are a means to an end, and that end is Mike Shanahan's further employment.

Mortgaging the Future

I've got to give it to Mike Shanahan. He's so bad at the NFL draft that he decided to simply not worry about picking in the first round until 2015. Is RG3 worth those picks? Nah, only because no rookie quarterback would be. It's a brilliant move by Shanahan though if you assume his goal has never been to win Super Bowls but to simply stay in charge of an NFL team by any means necessary.

Back in the mountain time zone, John Elway is busy offering up guaranteed cash to a 36 year old coming off four neck surgeries without doing any due diligence whatsoever.

Fire John Elway might be coming soon. Check back for details.

The Redskins are really bad and Mike Shanahan is clearly the problem

I've been busy watching Tim Tebow and with other things, but I'd just like to say that Mike Shanahan is clearly not fit to coach in the NFL in any capacity.

The Redskins are an awful team.

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Virginia writes:

We all know the story of the "wonderful Wizard of Oz" who was supposedly all-knowing and all powerful. Except, when Dorothy pulled back the curtain, he was just a timid nobody! Well, you can draw an analogy with Shanahan and the curtain that was pulled back? That would be John Elway!! As many pundits have asked, what has he won since Elway retired? His son is a joke. Keyshawn Johnson said on ESPN that he had some low-level non-job with the Tampa Bay Bucaneers, and then Gary Kubiak hired him as a favor to Mike Shanahan, who was at one time Kubiak's mentor. (And we all know how well Gary Kubiak has been doing!). The whole crew need to be shown the door. Oh, well maybe Jim Haslett is okay.


Junebug writes:

Mike is NOT a good coach. What he's doing with the Redskins is not coaching, it is terrorism. He and his incompetent son and coaching staff have done more brow-beating and tearing down than they have coaching. The man is un-professional for calling out players in the media. This doesn't build repoir or team spirit, it tears down the locker room. He is doing to the Redskins the equivalent of what George W. Bush did to the economy - wrecking it! Daniel Snyder should take one for the team and pay out his contract and get on one knee and BEG Marty Schottenheimer (yes, the only true winner) to come back and re-build this franchise. Shanahan must go, this year!

Any Redskins fans want to voice their opinions here?

If any Redskins fans want to email their takes about Shanahan's season so far, his decision to bench McNabb, or anything else I'm willing to post them.

I'll ask for complete, coherent sentences and minimal cursing if possible.


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Typical Shanahan

A mediocre season filled with close games his team should have won, terrible fourth quarter playcalling, throwing players under the bus in public, creation of multiple scapegoats to shift criticism away from the coaching staff.

Yep, sounds like a Mike Shanahan season to me.

Shanahan is a bad coach who got lucky he had Steve Young and John Elway to bail him out for his bad decisions.

If I was Redskins fan I'd be praying for him to be fired this off season.

How about that Mike Shanahan offense?

Only score came by a defensive touchdown, needed the Cowboys offensive line to implode twice to win.

lol

Shanahan trying desperately to craft best Madden 07 team possible

Larry Johnson, Willie Parker, Rex Grossman,

and now DONOVAN MCNABB

Can't wait until he drafts a QB immediately to begin to assert control over McNabb and undermine him.

I feel so bad for Redskins fans right now.

Question?

Which college program will Shanahan fall to when he inevitably fails in Washington?

I feel like he'll go to the Pac-10 or Big-10.

Your thoughts?

About Cutler

Jay Cutler has proven nothing as an NFL quarterback. He hasn't proven himself a winner, and he hasn't proven himself a leader.

Both of these points were in full display in the last three weeks of the 2008 season when Cutler phoned in in for three successive games, sending the Broncos spiraling out of playoff position.

All Jay Cutler has proven both in college and in the NFL is that he can put up nice statistics in meaningless games. When he is expected to win important games, he craters. Let's remember that Cutler took over the starting position because Shanahan claimed he gave the team its best chance to win over Plummer.

A comparison to Jake Plummer might help people with their hero worship of Cutler. Statistically Cutler isn't any better than Plummer. In fact Plummer's first three seasons in Denver were all arguably better than Cutler's.

However, a comparison of their leadership abilities paints a much starker contrast between the two. How did Jake Plummer react when Mike Shanahan sent a clear signal of his lack of trust by drafting Jay Cutler? Plummer didn't say a thing in the media and went out and played football. The Broncos had a winning record when he was replaced by Jay Cutler. Even after Shanahan replaced Plummer with Cutler, Plummer acted as a leader on the sidelines, helped Cutler, and was a vocal cheerleader on the bench. Plummer even acted as a holder throughout the rest of the season.

In comparison to a leader who voiced no complaints in the media to being relegated to holding duties, Jay Cutler's response to being simply mentioned in trade discussions is juvenile.

Cutler needs to grow up, if his performance spoke loud enough the Broncos wouldn't have considered trading him.