Mike Shanahan

Washington Redskins

After struggling under first time head coach Jim Zorn, the Redskins turned to Mike Shanahan to revamp their image and bring success back to D.C. They acquired Donovan McNabb in a trade with the division-rival Eagles to lead Kyle Shanahan's offense. After a competition of elder running backs, Clinton Portis and Larry Johnson will share carries with Keiland Williams out of the backfield. Santana Moss is still the speedy outside threat, but it gets thin beyond him at receiver. Devin Thomas has shown flashes but little else. Mike Furrey is dependable but not intimidating. Joey Galloway is old. I mean, seriously old. The 'Skins also drafted Trent Williams fourth overall to be their left tackle for years to come and traded for Jammal Brown from New Orleans, giving some stability to a wavering offensive line.

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ere up to me, I’d fire the staff and bring in a coach with some experience like Jon Gruden or Mike Shanahan. Imagine a Cutler-Shanahan reunion in Chicago with some zone-blocking running plays thrown in. It sounds fantastic doesn’t it? Well it won’t happen (because it would require the Bears to fire Lovie with 2 years left on his contract as well as hiring a head coach with actual head coaching experience), but it’s nice to dream. 

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The crystal ball had a mediocre performance this past week, going a mere 2-2.  This is playoff time, so that is unacceptable!  The crystal ball took its lumps on the Colts game, but it’s okay with it since Norv’s our buddy!  Anyway, that puts the crystal ball at 2-2 for the post-season, and 35-28-1 overall.  That’s seven games over .500 (.555 to be exact).  Hopefully the crystal ball will perform better this coming week, as the pressure mounts in post-season play!  Let’s take a look back, and review what happened last week.    

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This must have messed with Coach Mike Shanahan's usual pre-planned 15-play commencement to every game. Seeing the immediate innaccuracy of Cutler's throwing after the bang-up, more run plays started to get dialed. Since Selvin Young was out of the game, it was 33-year-old back-up Michael Pittman's job to carry the load. Soon thereafter, during the same long drive downfield, Pittman was injured and taken out of the game. Thus third-stringer Andre Hall had to carry the ball. And on his first touch, he fumbled it. The drive was simply doomed from the beginning.

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