tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518999264103251377.post5799073932085067030..comments2023-07-02T04:32:09.689-04:00Comments on Oblong Spheroid: Thru the easy partChris Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04996455466572610983noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518999264103251377.post-68726057716792841362009-10-20T13:31:22.842-04:002009-10-20T13:31:22.842-04:00I think Bisciotti actually does a fantastic job of...I think Bisciotti actually does a fantastic job of being an owner that's also a huge football fan. He is honestly probably as involved with the team as Snyder is. The difference is, he sits and listens and mostly stays out of the way and lets Ozzie run everything but the highest of the high level decisions.<br /><br />The "Sell the Team" chants are hilarious! I feel sorry for their fans. But considering Snyder's penchant for suing them, I doubt it would make much of a difference to him.Chris Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04996455466572610983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518999264103251377.post-26497270327644279152009-10-20T10:31:14.464-04:002009-10-20T10:31:14.464-04:00I've long believed that the owner of a profess...I've long believed that the owner of a professional sports franchise has only two fundamental duties:<br /><br />(1) Hire the best general manager possible.<br />(2) Sign your name on the checks of the players that the GM brings in.<br /><br />That's it. It's why I believe owners like Snyder, who interfere on a regular basis, are doomed forever. After so many failed seasons in a row with more coaches than I can recall offhand, perhaps it's time to learn the old lesson: "The common factor in all of your failed relationships is you."The Other Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04568396716926764963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518999264103251377.post-36855243858147301302009-10-20T07:23:05.117-04:002009-10-20T07:23:05.117-04:00"But at the end of the half, there began a ch..."But at the end of the half, there began a chant--Sell The Team. Sell The Team. Sell The Team.--that everybody in the box heard. The people in the box were stunned. I don't know that he heard it, because he wasn't there, but the people in the box were STUNNED. And I remember saying to him about two hours before the game, 'If you don't understand this, this is falling on you. ON YOU. Not anybody else, falling on you. And he said--and I will share this--he said 'I'm just so embarrassed for the fans, because I do think we have great fans.'<br /><br />"And I said, 'Well, why don't you say that out loud somewhere?' And then we talked about what you could do or what you couldn't do, but I'm not an adviser to the team."<br />http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcsportsbog/2009/10/inside_the_owners_box.htmlPatrick Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08457532328133529987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518999264103251377.post-52851798756733687932009-10-19T22:08:29.630-04:002009-10-19T22:08:29.630-04:00I feel so sorry for Jason Campbell. I just don...I feel so sorry for Jason Campbell. I just don't have a clue if he has the talent to be a good QB in this league, because he's got absolute garbage to work with. Bad OL, mediocre at best receivers, and the coaching is an absolute joke. There's no question he'll be on someone else's roster next year, probably more because he doesn't want to be back than because they don't want him back...and I think it's obvious how little they want him back.<br /><br />Zorn I feel bad for, but I can only feel so bad for a guy that has no business doing the job he's assigned to do. He's in a crappy situation, but he's arguably not qualified to be an OC, never mind a head coach. He's getting shafted, but at the same time it's just not fair to say he doesn't deserve to get fired.<br /><br />I really hate the Skins. I feel sorry for their fans. But at the same time, it's fairly satisfying to see them wallowing like this. The Danny deserves nothing more.Chris Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04996455466572610983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6518999264103251377.post-58203430673179193342009-10-19T14:57:51.462-04:002009-10-19T14:57:51.462-04:00I've never been a fan of the head coach callin...I've never been a fan of the head coach calling the plays. Brad Childress also struggled with it in Minnesota and finally relinquished it to his OC. Interestingly enough, when Childress was the OC in Philly, Andy Reid called the plays, so Childress took that model to Minnesota. Yet, Reid gave up the play calling duty to his new OC pretty quickly after Chilly left, which has always made me wonder about whether that was truly a paradigm or a compensation.<br /><br />It's a bad sign that it took someone else to tell Zorn to give up play calling. I'm not sure why it took so long... could be that he was too beholden to a "system" or that he didn't trust his OC or that he was unaware of what it was taking away from him or something. Regardless, it's the right move but one would hope that he would have been a bit more self aware in this case.<br /><br />As far as whether they have the right guy... Sherm Lewis has never really stood out as a spectacular play caller. Competent assistant, good knowledge of the game for diagnosing film and game planning, but not able to really adapt on a play-by-play basis to what is happening once the game starts. That doesn't sound like a good recipe for what the Redskins need.The Other Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04568396716926764963noreply@blogger.com