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That being said, there’s plenty at stake for both clubs and you can bet that the teams owner’s, Dan Snyder and Jeff Lurie, will be painfully watching as the stench unfolds inside an emptying stadium. Maybe Snyder should pull a play out of former partner and movie star cornerback (All the Right Moves) Tom Cruise’s playbook and watch the game with “Eyes Wide Shut?” Dan the Man’s product could very well be that rotten. Lurie will be viewing the pathetic proceedings through the prism of what might have been, considering the team’s reckless free agent spending. The winning owner between the two losers will have a short reprieve from making drastic and immediate, wholesale changes.
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On the other hand, the losing, loser owner might find himself besieged by fans to launch the Nuclear First Strike Option and blow his team’s organization to bits! Both clubs’ Coaches, Andy Reid and Mike Shanahan share General Managers duties. How’s that working out for you Dan and Jeff? Despite the history of failure of coupling the two jobs in today’s modern NFL, both teams have embraced the philosophy with open wallet’s and arm’s. To Reid’s credit, Philly will have fifteen million plus in salary cap room next season. While in Ashburn, Shanahan and lap dog, Bruce Allen’s, high jinks with other owners, has cost DC a whopping eighteen million dollars in cap space penalties.
The GM fumbles of the two coaches might be overlooked if the product on the field remotely resembled a well coached roster but on the field is where the disaster is clearly on display. Not surprisingly, penalties, questionable in game adjustments, clock management and overall lack of discipline by both coaches and players has resulted in a combined intolerable eight straight losses. Surprisingly, many fans in the two cities blame the players. I challenge the player critic’s to tell me that they did their best work, while working for a lousy, dying company? And rest assured, the organizations in Philly and DC are lousy and that’s being polite.
The question; Does it matter who wins Sunday in Landover? No, it doesn’t. Because the sad but increasingly obvious truth is that both Andy Reid and Mike Shanahan are extinct. They just don’t know it yet.
Misery Loves Company…isn’t that the truth! Well, alive for another week however the play selection will never get the Skins a Division title with Moe (Mike) Larry (Kyle) and Curly (Jim) calling the shots.