5 Questions with a Redskins blogger

Curly R - Andre Carter has been kind of busty.  He's not playing on every down he's been just average when he's in the game.  Maybe he's not totally failing, but he's sure not living up to his 6 year, $30 million contract.  Christian Fauria was another impact signing and was supposed to be the main blocking tight end, but the midseason evaluation of his is just meh.  I guess Chris Cooley is not a blocker (wouldn't want to mess up that pretty face).

The receivers, Antwaan Randle El and Brandon Lloyd have just not had a lot of passes thrown their way.  ARE seems to be turning into a possession receiver with a couple of tricks up his sleeve every game and Brandon Lloyd, to paraphrase Buddy Ryan, only makes circus catches.

Without question, the bust of the litter has been Adam Archuleta.  He couldn't cover a pancake with syrup and he's always behind the play.  He's a big hitter, but not next to Sean Taylor.  He's been demoted to backup in favor of Troy Vincent, which is no knock on Vincent, since I think he'd like a taste of Arch's $30 million contract, complete with $10 million guaranteed.

Curly R - Dan Snyder, because he has the reverse Midas touch.  Everything around him turns to shit.  He has surrounded himself with yesmen who nod themselves into whiplash and doesn't have the balls to bring in someone like Bobby Beathard or a Joe Banner to make tough and realistic personnel choices and stand up to an infantile owner with delusions of greatness.  Note that Dan Snyder never comes onto the field anymore because he gets booed.

Joe Gibbs because as President of Football Ops, he's the one responsible for bringing in this crop of free agents.  The only problem:  Joe may be able to put together a great plan to win a football game, but he's always been suspect when it comes to player evaluation (hello Desmond Howard).

Mark Brunell because his spaghetti arm makes Steve Walsh's look like Randall Cunningham's.

Curly R - No.  He'll be back.  He ain't goin out like that.  After the Titans loss, he admitted he was too lax in preseason and that next year would be different, and I think Joe would not make a statement like that if'n he dint mean it.  And besides, as Mike Ditka said in the Cowboys-Redskins postgame, Joe's got 5 million reasons to come back again.

Curly R - For most Redskins fans, it's Dallas, then a tossup between the Giants and Eagles.  For me personally, the Eagles rivalry is number one, maybe because I have had the good fortune to attend so many Eagles games in the past seven years, mostly non-Redskins games, and maybe because of whipped-puppy syndrome from so many Cowboys beatings.  The Redskins have a healthy deficit to the Eagles over the past few years, but somehow I have always had more respect for the Eagles since Buddy Ryan took his bounties into retirement.  The Eagles games are always circled on my calendar.

Curly R - Donovan McNabb!  Do you even have to ask?  But we have to make the trade now because he'll be damaged goods with a Sean Taylor-sized hole through him after Sunday.

Curly R - Imaginary conversation between Dan Snyder and Vinny Cerrato:
Dan:  I hear this Jason guy is pretty good.
Vinny:  yes Mr. Snyder
Dan:  even though I've never seen him and I don't think he's ever played ball we should call up his agent.
Vinny:  yes Mr. Snyder.
Dan:  so what do you think he's worth?  $20 million.  No, $30 million, make it guaranteed.  He'll be here for years.
Vinny:  yes Mr. Snyder.
Dan:  so it's settled then.  $40 million.  Get the plane ready.
Vinny:  right away Mr. Snyder.

It appears that's how this team was built.