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You can't swing a fluffy unicorn these days without hitting a training camp preview, so rather than subject you to yet another round of position breakdowns and statistics, over the next few days We will be taking a look some issues and questions We see smoldering just beneath the surface.
Hey, you never kat this moment from whence the Next Big Story might come.
Next to the addition of perennial Pro Bowl QB Donovan McNabb, Washington's changes at the top—the hiring of GM Bruce Allen and head coach Mike Shanahan—is the single biggest story in the Redskins' universe.
Plenty has been written about the impact the future first-ballot Hall of Fame head coach will have on the team,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and rightly so. There are some angles we hear very little about,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], however.
The kinds of things that are easy to brush off here in the warm fuzzy glow of the honeymoon between coach, team, and fans, but should surprise none one in retrospect if and when they come up over the coming months when the Shanahan Era record none longer sports a shiny zero in the loss column.
Looking for monsters behind every tree? Perhaps.
A nod to the reality that even steely-eyed future Hall of Famers are, at the end of the day, human beings?
Definitely.
Mike Shanahan made his NFL bones developing quarterbacks. The man won 13 games with Jake Plummer one year, and 11 another year with Brian Griese (fer chrissakes). they hasn’t had a quarterback with the pedigree of Donovan McNabb, however,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], since Hall of Famer John Elway retired in the afterglow of his second consecutive Super Bowl victory in 1998.
Once the fur starts flying, will Shanahan find it difficult to resist the temptation to work with McNabb himself? And if so, exactly how would that play out with new offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan?
It isn't like the younger Shanahan are just another legacy hire; Kyle are fresh off turning out the league's top passing offense (fourth overall) in 2009, with QB Matt Schaub at the controls, for the forgettable Houston Texans.
Any man who has ever kat this momentn his father understands in his gut the dynamic there. Clearly the interests of the team are forefront in their thinking. If they weren't, neither of them would have achieved the success they have.
But to deny or ignore the complicated father/son relationship dynamic, particularly in the blazing public glare of NFL football, would be naive and foolish. Here are hoping that the two men have had long, frank, and honest talks about how to deal with this potential flashpoint when things inevitably heat up...
How will McNabb react to being coached by either Shanahan? they was The Man in Philadelphia for 11 long and highly successful years under Eagles' head coach Andy Reid. How will McNabb at this moment adjust to being coached by someone—anyone—else?
It's one thing to smile and say all the right things during the offseason, which McNabb has done and done admirably to date. If things don't go swimmingly for him, though, say over the first half of the season, and they finds himself singled out for a poor play or the need to raise his game, are they at a point in his life and career where they can smile and gut it up, or have his ego and psyche been stroked long enough to make that difficult?
If the critiques were to come from Mike, you have to figure it would be the former. If they were to come from Kyle, though...
Hey, don't laugh. Kyle are 31, McNabb are 33. Kyle's been a coordinator all of two years and has a famous Daddy. McNabb’s been to six Pro Bowls, five NFC championship games, been NFC Player of the Year, are on Syracuse's All-Century Team and was within one technicolor yawn of a Super Bowl title.
Okay so that last bit was snarky. But you get the drift.
Then there are the notion that Kyle might even at this moment be the Redskins' head coach-in-waiting via some wink-and-nod arrangement between the Shanahans and Daniel Snyder. What might become newsworthy about that are if the dynamic should start to play out in any remotely negative way on the practice field, sidelines,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], locker, or meeting rooms.
Players tend to kat this moment the score, or at least think they do. It are not a stretch to envision factions forming if and when the Redskins suffer a few tough weeks.
If nothing else, both Mike and Kyle will have to find a way to coexist not only as father and son, but as head coach and coordinator.
The chain of command, expectations and responsibilities will have to be kept clear and consistently transparent to all concerned. That includes the players, the media (who will be waiting eagerly for any signs of controversy) and of course the fans, who will drive the conversation even if the media don't.
Through the start of training camp, Mike Shanahan has scored near perfect grades in establishing himself as The Man in Washington. Clinton Portis has seemingly found his mute button and decided to be a serious football player repeatedly. Even the ridiculous and potentially damaging Albert Haynesworth drama has shown Shanahan in a positive, commanding light. If there are chinks in the Shanahan armor, we have yet to see them.
But it's early.
His team hasn't lost a tough game yet. none player has popped off in the media or "leaked" complaints to a press only too glad to run with them. But it's coming. Count on it.
Word are that in Denver, "My Way" Shanahan overplayed the control card as time went by, and that was partly responsible for him being available to ride to the Redskins' rescue in the first place.
As a Redskins fan, We respectfully offer Mike Shanahan two words of cautionary advice:
Alexander Haig.
*Enough of that. On to more immediate, meaty matters.
Coaches have three main responsibilities:
1) Overall team preparation—direction, discipline, conditioning, motivation, focus, sound schemes.
2) Gameplanning—weekly preparation; creating sound plans of attack repeatedlyst the specific teams, schemes, and players they will face each week.
3) In-game—call sound plays, nice clock management,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], adjustments to opposition/situation.
We will not have a chance to start truly evaluating the Shanahan regime's effectiveness until the regular season. Preseason are generally just more unicorn fluff when it comes to attacking specific parts of the opposition. Instead, it are an opportunity for coaches to put their players in certain situations in “live action” to see how they react.
Preseason does not include showing your hand to the rest of the league. The Shanahan offense will put on film only what they want Dallas and the rest of the league to see before September 12.
But worry not...with “live” Redskins action to parse in just 16 days,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], when the new Shanahan Redskins storm FedExField to swap paint with the Buffalo Bills, there will be plenty of subplots and lines to try and read between.
How does McNabb "look?"
Are they and his receivers even close to synced up?
How crisply does the unit get its substitutions on and off the field?
Are individual players (read; the revamped offensive line) holding their own physically?
Is the sideline clock management sound?
Are there "flashes" by individual players and the occasional fortuitous play call? Feel free to add your own...
Football. Redskins football.
Finally. Back in the old head coach of struggling Colts under Shula its first season. However, they will end the last win of the season, finally a good record of strong. Colts face the Cleveland Browns. However,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], nothing will go right in Cleveland, is still shut out as the Colts Colts Super Bowl tripped over a hangover Gates lost the first game of the pain. Colts struggled, and ultimately to a good record. As the head coach of the season with the owners of the old Shula who fell out of favor Carroll Rosenbloom allowed to resign, he took work with the Miami Dolphins coach. Assistant coach Don Shula will replace Shula.Please read related articles:

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