It's been a while since I've posted. Life has been a whirlwind. But here we go let's get to it...
Jay Gruden is out of...
Ideas.
These last six weeks combined, they have scored a total of three points in the third quarter. It always seems like every other team comes out making adjustments except the Redskins. Lack of ways to motivate the team, maybe? Lack of innovative play calling? Maybe lack of intuition required to make an educated guess on how the other team will try to attack you in the second half based on the first... Whatever it is, when he gets on the podium, all we ever hear is "We'll have to get better" and "I don't know, I gotta go look at the film."
One Liners.
"The bang-bang plays kill us." "We laid an egg... a big egg." "We're competing." and other lovely anecdotes. Now most of the time all we hear is "I dunno."
Since we just got through discussing one liners...
"Fire in the belly."
Every game this man coaches he gets to looking more depressed, dismal and clueless. One could say that it's a side effect from taking a head coaching job in Washington. But how much more time do you need to learn when in 22 games here, your road record is now 1-10? That's not saying much. And neither is the expression/attitude you give off. Maybe HC is not your calling, bruh. Just throwing that out there.
Excuses.
Not sure how many people keep up with the press conferences after each one of the games but it's really interesting to see who/what Coach Gruden blames the Redskins losses on. Let's take a look at who has been thrown under the Gruden Bus to date:
Week 1 - Lack of attitude (whole team), Kai Forbath. As a result, Forbath was cut.
Week 2 - Win vs Rams, no blame given.
Week 3 - Pierre Garcon's inability to catch a ball thrown behind him
Week 4 - Win vs Eagles, no blame given.
Week 5 - Ryan Grant's slip and fall contributed to the pick 6 vs Atlanta.
Week 6 - Lack of run game (Morris/Thompson) and the wind.
I'm wondering what will be next should they fall to Tampa this weekend. It certainly won't be Kirk Cousins, that we can bet on.
Time.
It's interesting when you look at the chain of events. Gruden hired by his buddy to coach and fix the quarterback situation. Year one, all three quarterbacks noticeably regress. Year two, owner hires new GM. GM hires a QB coach. Gruden continues to try to plug and play QB's into his pocket passer offense and decides he's given up on Griffin and decides to stick with Cousins.
Has anyone ever wondered why if the GM is supposed to find the guys that the coach wants why Griffin is still on this roster? Is it the contract? Lack of trade value? I fail to believe that McCloughan would not have just cut his losses and gotten rid of Griffin if he didn't feel like he had to see the whole picture first before doing something so drastic. So management allowed Gruden to do things his way and gave him just enough rope to hang himself should his plan fail.
And now at week 6 and the former arena football quarterback turned coach has been reduced to blaming the elements. He's just about out of time and is at the end of his own noose. If he keeps up what he's doing right now, he'll be out of a job.
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