Hall of Shame

This guy is bad news. It's a mistake to throw this guy into the mix with a new Zorn-again culture forming in our locker .
Stay medium? Don't think so.
All you need to know is that my hometown Falcons dumped him at the end of last season. A franchise that was circling the bottom of the bowl in an unprecedented way simply had no use for him. A franchise that has rebuilt impressively behind the solid front office leadership of Dimitroff and coaching of Mike Smith, that has proven they know what they are doing, kicked him to the curb.
I know, I know, one person's trash is another's treasure. And we did get him for a Filene's Basement price. But like a Filene's Basement bargain: attitude high, prices low.
A short review of MeAngelo Hall's attitude is in order. Let's go to the videotape!!!
Getting outrun by a one-shoed Hines Ward.
Getting burned time after time after time - Jay Cutler
Diva-distraction.

The gamble here is that the Skins lockerroom culture can somehow teach MeAngelo to control his divisive, negative behavior that morphs into a monster at the drop of a hat.
But given this ownership's track record with free agent superstars (see 1999-2005) I think it's a bad fit. And dumping a Torrence instead of draft pick Tryon (wasn't he the nemesis in Teen Titans?) or putting one of the out-of-shape injured receivers on IR for the year... the team attitude pendulum just went a couple ticks from postive to negative. We'll see...

The Moon in a Gatorade Cup

Dogen Eiheii - Zen poet, philosopher, born 1200 AD in Kyoto, offers these Skinsku of the 2008 season at the halfway point

staring into cups

Gatorade enlightenment

rookie receivers

don't roost in this world

spinning chaos here and there

like balls off Brooks' foot

the young sprout shall rise

a franchise truly Zorn-again

dharma heir of Gibbs

young rookie safety

threatening all receivers

like cousin Willie

opposites coarise

Zorn calling, Campbell balling

can serenity be far?

peeking from behind

maroon and black Redskins gear

Maitreya's shadow

enlightenment is

playing players on a bye

Yellow Submarine

caustic collision

costs comrades comraderie

"miscommunication"

as hope blooms anew

Giants tear us a new one

this is Danny's fault...

will we keep rolling

or return to fallow years

exposed like Cooley

in their moonlit dreams

the Cowboys are actually

catching Santana

watching cars circle

endless loops of karmic fate

Gibbs' new zazen

impressive draft picks

rock candy for the toothless

useless on the bench

rising above forms

Jason greets a new system

be water, my friend

Portis knows there is

no being behind silly masks

wears them with a smile

John Milton Laments Redskins Loss to Rams

THE ARGUMENT

In which The Author illumines the root causes of the Downfall of the Wearers of Burgundy and Gold this past Sabbath, and predicts their future Redemption.

Hail holy Zorn, offspring of Heav'n first-born

Providential play-caller, those foul beasts

Charybidis and Scylla could not stop

Thy reverse play-action run-pass option;

May I name thy faults unblam'd from thy wrath?

Th' Quarterback of Soup excells under thy

Tutelage; Choirs of Hogettes sing thy praise

"Hip, Hip, Hoo-Ray, Chosen of the Danny!"

But thou and thy bright Host art fell tempor'y

To those animals over whom Man may

Hold Dominion justly; Rams not these

Sacrificyal but rather rapt in one

Win over thee; their methods from thou not

Hidden but rather wrapt Incognito.

Play-calls passive, the Ultimate Sin of

Turnover, abundant. Pride of Four and

One cometh before the Fall.

And yet there

Is Redemption written in the emp'real

Celestial lights of the orbs of Heaven,

Spelled Cleveland and Detroit, fraudulent signs

Of professional teams both. Hail! O Sons of

Washington and restore thy blissful seat! ('Skins by 10)

Ouch!

A gimmie victory, huh? Well, the Redskins got overconfident Sunday against the atrocious Rams and went down in the closing seconds. Sure, fluke fumbles and weird plays contributed to the loss (Pete Kendell -- YOU ARE NOT A RUNNING BACK!!), but it was primarily a case of expecting to win, instead of playing to win.

Now, I've been enjoying the Skins's new-found swagger under (All Hail) Zorn, but it went too far last week. I mean what were Chris Cooley and Clinton Portis thinking when they dressed up to go -- I kid you not -- Ram hunting last week in a video featured on #47's blog?

I guess the answer is, even with swagger, Stay Medium.

The Spoon-Fed Receiver

Now that B. Lloyd be gone, I have to have a new target. And you know, while this Redskins season is going great, I really don't have to look too far .. DO I DEVIN THOMAS!?!

Listen: You may be more talented than Lloyd and even a more profound rapper than than the lyricist who brought the world "I Get the Chedda" but damn, man, quit with the interference calls!

On the Wash. Post Redskins blog (All Hail) Zorn said about Thomas: "He's a tremendous talent. But he's not ready, really, to take on any kind of responsibility, to be honest with you. We're having to spoon-feed him there."

Yes, spoon-feed! Devin, before we dub you the Spoon-Fed Receiver, play in a game and don't break the rules!

And for those out of area bloggers, are we all keeping up with the latest Eastern motors ads -- discussions between CP and Randle El about ligers and Chris Cooley in his short-shorts. I tell ya, we got a team with swagger now.

Fire Up the (Copyright Infringing) BlogWagon!

Ollie saw many BlogWagons on his trip to India. Hopefully this one will smell less like urine and curry.


Chris Samuels Re-Enacting R.Kelly's 1996 Hit "I Believe I Can Fly"


Great Kornheiser's Corpse! People are actually talking about the Redskins for reasons other than Captain Chaos showing his hee-ha all over the inter tubes. When Danny Warbucks hired Encino Man...I mean, Jim Zorn, everyone thought that it was going to be a Al Davis sucking-the-life-out-of-the-souls-of-the-innocent-type situation (sweet hyphenation, huh?). Personally, I thought he was the villain from this:



Somehow I can't see a Born Again saying "Prepare her for our pleasure"

We were wrong. Zorn isn't in over his head. He's not Spurrier running up the score in Osaka with a bunch of backups and then blowing harder than Leperchaun: Back to the Hood. He's not Herr Schottenheimer, locking grown men in their rooms after 8. Dare I say, he's not even Gibbs (II), running plays that harkened back to the days of the wishbone.



All Hail Zorn! All your non-divisional games are behold to us!



(Every time Dan Snyder gets excited, an Angel gets its wings)

Karate Chop YO!

We all know Santana Moss is the king. So far this season, he is second in the NFL in yards receiving and tied for third in receptions. After running cold for a while, what's the deal?

Better connection with QB Soup? Being healthy? More motivation?

Sure, may be. But I think it's -- hiiiii-yah! -- his new embrace of the ancient Asian martial arts. (Cue gong and windchime)

According to this AP story, Master Moss took up Tae Kwon Do in the off season (because, like, running, swimming and lifting weights wasn't enough). The Korean fighting style perhaps gives him more poise, center, focus -- and straight up badassness!

Undoubtedly he will follow in the footsteps of Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, Jet Li, Bolo Yeung, Sammo Hung, Sonny Chiba (uhm, perhaps I should stop here ... ). And of course, the best of them all -- Jim "Black Belt Jones" Kelly.