Toward Proving Our Thesis

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/mar/12/scot-mccloughans-real-sin-backing-cousins-over-rgi/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS

Gruden and McCloughan wanted Cousins over Griffin. Allen, the wagged tail, and the dog, Snyder, did not. McCloughan persuaded the jew to go against his racial bias and allow the coach to start the better QB.

As we "can't" write in the media that jews hate whites and use blacks to destroy them, the matter rests at the matter of personalities. Even when race is included, it is merely noted that the owner prefers blacks to whites, but this is never tied to his being a jew, nor is it tied to the consequences - losing money, losing games, losing fan support.

There's a very strong jew bias against whites - it just can't be discussed in the free press.

Dan Snyder, a Real Jew's Jew

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/redskins/tired-of-the-redskins-dysfunction-theres-one-person-to-blame/2017/03/11/2aef60dc-05d3-11e7-ad5b-d22680e18d10_story.html?utm_term=.a8abbb4a2bfb

Sally Jenkins. I havent followed the Skins closely until the last three years, but she makes a point that adds to the argument I've made, that (((Snyder))) doesn't like whites and will always choose a black who's not as good where there's a question.

Remember drafting Devin Thomas while passing on Jordy Nelson?

An article could be made of examples of the jewish owner passing on superior white players in draft (Jordy Nelson), overpaying blacks (Haynesworth, Norman, etc.), and impeding his own white players where they had demonstrated they were better than his preferred black (Griffin and Cousins).

Lost in the Hubbub

The hubbub over the unfair firing and blaming of Scot McCloughan for (what? the Skins' last two years' success?) shouldn't obscure what matters for our investment purposes: The Redskins got better the last few days, perhaps significantly better. They added a very good and interesting player in Terrelle Pryor. Very large and powerful receiver with a background playing QB. They also added some defenders who figure to be at least NFL-average at their positions. For the Redskins that's an improvement. The key is they have at least one person who can stop the run. And Cousins signed.

Come what may in 2018 and beyond, the Skins should be a good team in 2017.

Skins Blasted All Over

http://www.gq.com/story/redskin-dan-snyder-fired-gm-new-low

Drew Magary of Deadspin and, here, GQ weighs in.

Most notable is that Mike Jones, one of the Post's main beat writers, says in Tweet that someone told him last fall that jealousy at the top was the problem, and it would be resolved by using McCloughan's drinking as the excuse to can him. Which is just what happened.

There's no dispute McCloughan still drinks. The question is whether it interferes with his job, or Snyder and Allen are using that as an excuse to get out of paying the rest of his contract. Given Snyder's history, the latter is probably the case.

Well, Maybe Not

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/18863192/kirk-cousins-requesting-trade-washington-redskins

Quarterback Kirk Cousins has recently appealed to Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder, asking for a trade without a long-term contract in place, league and team sources told ESPN's Chris Mortensen. 

Snyder told Cousins that he should not anticipate a trade, sources said, and the quarterback is prevented from negotiating with teams under the exclusive franchise tag that was placed upon him on Feb. 28.

First report that Kirk Cousins really does want a trade, has spoken to Snyder about it. Very bad news for Redskins.

This blog will follow Cousins if he's traded. NFL should be thought about as a QBs league, first and last. Fans think in terms of teams doing battle, but it's more useful to look at it as dueling quarterbacks. I have no interest in writing about the Skins with a backup QB like Colt McCoy, or a first-year starter who, like most of them, will turn out to be below average.

If KC is traded to San Francisco, I will follow SF.

I'm hoping at least we get one more year with KC in Washington, mainly for investment purposes.

Liz Clarke Explains the Snyder Allen Feud

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/football-insider/wp/2017/03/08/redskins-gm-scot-mccloughan-has-no-role-in-current-free-agency-decision-making/?utm_term=.193091c70817#comments

This piece attempts to explain the motives behind the maneuvers. Apparently McCloughan and Allen really are at odds, for various reasons. Upshot is that McC is probably gone soon.

Allen Backs Statements with Behavior

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dc-sports-bog/wp/2017/03/08/good-thing-the-redskins-ended-all-that-kirk-cousins-trade-talk-with-the-exclusive-tag/?utm_term=.653273c051d8

The reason we did the exclusive is we’re tired of all the nonsense that we’re thinking of trading [Cousins], or someone wants a trade. No. He’s going to be our quarterback, and we have to work out the agreement for the long term.”

That's Allen. Saying now what he said weeks ago. Since the first statements, Kirk Cousins has been tagged. So Allen's behavior backs up his words. It makes it marginally more believable that the Skins do want to sign Cousins long term. But Cousins has the leverage, as all media now observe, and he has to agree. Other teams will be happy to pay him lots of money, not just the Skins.

As I've said before (see Predictions label), I think Cousins will eventually sign for closer to 30m a year than 25, and he'll end up a bargain at that price. Truly it doesn't matter that much.

Meanwhile, in other Redskins news, Vernon Davis has reupped, for three years. That's good. He can block and catch, and has a calm head. Pierre Garcon has left. That will hurt some. The bigger hurt will be if DeSean Jackson departs, which appears likely.

In any case, the 2017 Redskins will feature a solid OL coach, a solid OL, a proven QB entering his prime, and several receivers who have already proven themselves (Davis, Crowder, Reed) and others who are likely to develop into good receivers.

Things are ok, the media are simply blowing air as they're paid to do, makes no nevermind, really.

Are the Redskins a Mess?

You ever had a suspicious girlfriend? Where if you dont respond to her question immediately turns her fear into fact and conducts a whole conversation with herself based on a false premise? That's kind of like what media reporting in the off-season amounts to. There may not be any information, there may not be any answers, but the media still have to produce copy. 

What we do know right now, as of March 7, is that the Redskins have the essentials in place for the coming year. They have a solid, established, well above average QB, and they have a solid, established coach. Both are on the rise, in terms of their learning curve. As an objective matter, good things are likely to happen for the Skins in 2017 - even better things than they have experienced in the last two years, which saw them essentially achieve the playoff qualification level of general competence. 

We don't know who they will be, but the Skins will have good people to receive passes. They will have a better DL coach. They will probably get a decent healthy player back in Galette. They will probably pick up at least one new decent player on defense via the draft or free agency. 

Overall, despite all the unanswered questions, the Redskins are in pretty good shape. Enjoy the hype if that's your taste, but there's no reason to believe it. The Skins....are good. 

Redskins Extend Gruden; Cousins Having Baby

Extending Gruden is a good idea. He's set, ready to go, can build on years of success. Same with Kirk Cousins. Family life is nailed down, ready to play hard for - some team. We will see if all the hot air about trades amounts to anything or the Redskins are able to work out a long-term deal, which would be better for both parties.

Liz Clarke Nails the Nonessential Reasons Skins Snub Cousins

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/football-insider/wp/2017/03/01/the-one-area-where-the-redskins-badly-miscalculated-kirk-cousins/?utm_term=.d44ecd6e6bfd#comments

Good Liz Clarke article.

She nails it - Cousins believes in himself because he puts in the work. He, at least, can see clearly his market value. He won't take less. Why should he? The Skins have gone out of their way to support inferior black QBs while he waited offstage. Objectively the Redskins delayed, hence damaged, his development. Then when he succeeded, they tried to underpay him. He has done nothing but say The Right Thing (TM) in public. He really has little reason to feel loyalty to Washington, apart from any coaches who helped him.

Clarke gets the Kirk side of the analysis correct. But she leaves out the most important factor: the Redskins owner is a jew. And jews hate whites. It's called loxism. It's why the media are so relentlessly anti-Trump and anti-white. Every day, every page. Snyder's attitude is part of that same attitude found throughout the elite, which is dominated by jews. Jew Snyder wants a flashy black QB Of The Future (TM). Not a squeaky clean cornball non-brother. Why should he sign Boring Vanillaman for a half decade when a fresh Dak Prescott might pop up tomorrow morning? This,attitude on the part of owner jew Snyder, ultimately, is what is behind the unwillingness to sign Cousins to a long-term deal. That signing still might happen, of course. But even if it does, it will not be Snyder's preference, it will be something he accepts only with reluctance.

You would think the executive in Snyder would notice what Clarke emphasizes - that Cousins is all about invisible work. Working hard, being careful - preparing to succeed. But he doesn't. Because Cousins is White, and to jews, that's a sin. The very last thing any jew wants to do is pay a hundred million dollars to a bible-believing christian whiteskin. If Cousins ends up with another team after this year, keep reading the media. Eventually what I assert here will come out in the middle of some analytical article. Sources will say or hint something that's a 1% reduction of what I'm saying here. You might have to read between the lines, but eventually one of the inside reporters will admit, never calling it by its true name (hatred/bigotry), that Synder simply didn't want Cousins' type playing QB for his team.

The good news here is our investment is now in play: betting the Skins very hard on the Over for their season wins, at whichever number we prefer, based on our tolerance for risk.

Beneath the Hype, Skins Serious Re Cousins?

http://was.247sports.com/Bolt/Jason-La-Canfora-flips-script-on-Kirk-Cousins-reports-51387230

Now the media are flipping and saying Redskins will franchise Cousins, then try seriously to sign him to long term deal. This would be great. Allen has said KC is their long-term QB. Let's hope that's true.

Daniel Snyder, Loxist

Daniel Snyder has come in for heaps of abuse during his tenure as owner of the Washington Redskins. But not for the right reason.

Snyder has been attacked for everything under the sun, but all those attacks have been aimed at him for being an old white guy (he is not, he is a jew) and for being racist. Racism is a bogus concept, so attacks based on it aren't legitimate. Snyder is criticized for not changing the name of his team because jewish antiwhite leftists don't like it. So what? Polls were taken, and they showed Indians themselves don't care. But of course the jews called liberals are the only authoritative voice for all groups at all times.

What deserves discussion is the racial roots of Snyder's jewish antipathy toward whites in general. This is absolutely universal among jews, and it explains most of the commentary and analysis you see. It's the dog that didn't bark in the why wont the Skins resign Cousins debate. Because jews own the media, they create the illusion that jews are victims. In fact, jews are never victims and always aggressors. What is the whole "QB of the future" scam-concept they created but a pseudo-analytical attempt to smuggle in their politics, which call for blacks replacing whites at every position on the field. Just as they do in broader society with the scam concepts of "diversity" and "multiculturalism" and open borders immigration.

"QB of the future" is the sports equivalent of "diversity." The problem is that just like in street society, diversity is a horrible weakness and the QB of the future can't get the job done. But the jew will keep on lying and trying.

This is the hidden grammar of the Cousins debate. You will never see the true reason the Skins' owner is slow to sign Cousins because it is de facto illegal in the controlled media to mention the incredible jewish bias against whites. It's called loxism, and it is the hatred that drives modern American media and politics - and sports media and ownership too.

Loxism Drives Refusal to Pay Cousins

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/redskins/kirk-cousins-is-going-to-make-the-redskins-pay-no-matter-where-he-ends-up/2017/02/23/ceb2bf22-f9ce-11e6-9845-576c69081518_story.html?utm_term=.b9d048b03953

Lots of fractured wind discussing why the Redskins are footdragging on Kirk Cousins. The explanation is simple: the owner is a jew, and jews don't like whites. They will always prefer to pay a black rather than a white, even if it costs them money and wins. This is why the skins leaped to overpay Haynesworth and Norman, while they won't even give Cousins the market rate. Having seen what black Prescott did in Dallas in his first year, the owner Synder will be hoping he can do the same.

The fact there is discrimination against whites even at the QB position is hidden from most people. They believe what they hear: blacks have this athleticism and higher ceilings that whites do. It's not true, but people believe it. Most professional sports teams in the big four are owned by jews. They all have the same biases. The big media are owned by jews too. Same type, same prejudices. You will never hear about a jew being prejudiced, except sometimes against blacks. And in that case, as with former Clippers owner, you will never hear that the owner is a jew; he will inevitably be described as an old white man. So the 'racism' charge will be levied against the white account. Jews are white when they do bad, and jews when they do good. This is deception, and it's deliberate.

Someone responds that, no, Snyder likes christian Gibbs. No, he doesn't. Jews absolutely loathe conservative evangelicals. Even though these fundamentalists are their biggest supporters, thanks to their dispensationalist views on Israel. Snyder has to pretend to love Gibbs because the guy won a bunch of Super Bowls. It would be intolerable to the people paying for tickets if Snyder did anything but show Gibbs respect. But like him - heck no. If you think that, you don't understand how jews work.

They didn't give Cousins the chance to win the job on the field when he was drafted; then, after the jew owner's preferred choice failed, they watched as the superior white talent succeeded. And then the jew owner dragged his foot on paying the man his deserved and earned money. Why the heck would Cousins want to do anything other than get free of this situation and collect $100 million plus with a team that can see what he's worth?

Cousins still has plenty to prove. That's not the issue. But he has proved enough to justify a massive payday. The skins refuse him, without having any better options. There's a reason McCoy is a backup. He's a perfectly fine mediocre QB. He's not some kind of starter that's going to win most games. At best his ceiling is about two games over .500.

What reason is there to think we've seen the best of Cousins? He's only played two full  years. He has improved over those two years, immensely. And played a much more difficult schedule in the second year. The only reason the Skins haven't moved to sign him to a huge long-term contract is loxism, the jewish hatred of whites.

Kirk Cousins and 2017 Predictions

I predict:

Cousins will stay.
He will be franchise tagged.
The Redskins will make the playoffs.
They will win two games and lose in the conference championship.

Date of predictions; 2017-02-22.

Snyder's Jewish Bigotry Explains Cousins Footdragging

http://www.hogshaven.com/2017/2/17/14635736/skins-stats-ten-reasons-kirk-cousins-is-worth-the-money

Cousins should be paid pretty much whatever he wants. The reason the Skins are dragging their feet is he's not black. And worse than that, he's a believing Christian. To jews like Dan Snyder, that's like a cross to a vampire. They hate whites. And they hate christians. And they really hate Christian whites. This is why Cousins was never given a chance to compete for the starting job when he was drafted - even though he was better than RGIII from day one. It's pure bigotry. It's already cost Cousins more than a year of devlopment. Snyder's loxism has objectively hurt his team. Of course, it's his decision to make, since he owns the team, but the media should be faulted for not pointing it out. Since they gleefully point to racial motives heading the other direction, even though the vast majority of these are imaginary. Well, this one is real.

There is no rational reason not to sign Cousins to a long-term contract, but there is an irrational one: Snyder's hatred of christian whites. It's just that no one in the controlled media dares to write about it.

Astonishing There Is Any Debate Over Kirk Cousins

Even if they had to pay him $50 million a year, Cousins would be worth it. They have no better alternative, and he still likely has an upside he hasn't shown. If you're going to say he panicked in clutch, so did one of the two guys in the Super Bowl. The crowd blames Kyle Shanahan, but Matt Ryan is a mature adult - he decided to hold onto the ball and get sacked making FG impossible. And he's been a starting QB in league for nearly a decade. He's not truly any better than Cousins is now. And Cousins can easily give another ten years of quality play.

The Skins are also underrating Cousins' ability to stay healthy, as I keep repeating to no echo. That is not a small thing, it is a medium-sized thing.

If the Skins let Cousins go, the recriminations and crying will begin the next day, and rightly so. These people are brainwashed by media to underrate whites, and particularly white men in the mold of Cousins - personally careful, conscientious, Christian and frugal. All they ever hear is about the endless upside and high ceilings of these 'athletic' (read: black) QBs of the future. It is to laugh. The future QB will be the same as the past QB, an intelligent white man with a strong arm and great judgment. If he can run a bit, that's great. But if not, doesn't matter. Because any QB, no matter how slow, can run when he's open. See Tom Brady.

Conservative Policy Is Best Way to Go

The Skins have something. Their goal should be, first, to protect it. Only secondarily to improve it. Many improvements turn out not to be, after all.

What are the Redskins' assets?:

Players who can move ball and score points.
Great OL coach
GM who can ID true talent and manage money capably
Head coach who can scheme good plays.
Long snapping.
Punting and placekicking

These are their core assets. These should be protected and preserved.

The only things the Redskins should be loose and free with are their sub-mediocre players, since any replacements they get can't really get worse. I think. But even there, a certain number of these poor to average players might improve with experience - and they are already inside the system, know how it works. So even there, the bias should be to retain them unless a very likely superior alternative presents itself.

This is the correct mentality for the Skins to embrace: Protect what you have that before jumping after what you don't.

Proven Quality Players - Not Defense or Offense

If you cant buy top players at all positions, and if offense is defense and defense is offense, then you might as well pay top dollar for whatever proven quality you can find. Since change is so rapid in NFL, there's no such thing as being too deep at any position. This is the argument for paying Garcon and Jackson say 10m apiece. Why let first-rate talent go if it's proven and wants to stay? "Offense" and "defense" loom too large in people's eyes. Just look at it as talent. You're going to let two PROVEN talents, who support QB, have proven their compatibility with QB on the field, go because you need to get people on defense. You don't even know who those people are. You vaguely hope to buy a few and draft a few. But none of these will be PROVEN at the level the existing talent already is. It appears not more than 1-2 top defensive agents will even be available for purchase. If McCloughan's policy of getting the best talent available applies to draft, shouldnt it apply in-house as well? Because not just is the talent proven with the receivers, the compatibility is proven. There are at least two-three check marks already demonstrated by Garcon and Jackson, and there are at least two-three question marks for any defensive players they would buy or draft.

Again, the Skins are an offensive team. Not a defensive team. Don't fight it. Buy whatever talent is available, but keep the talent, the proven talent, you already have in house. That's the best way to look at it, but no one in the media even brings that option up, so sure are they that the skins must improve on defense. But they consider defense by itself when defense is best viewed as a term for a part of a functioning whole.

Redskins Defense Not as Far Away as It Seems

I don't know what will happen to Skins' defense in 2017. But it's not as bad as it appears. In 2016, many times the D would stop the team impressively for two plays in a row, then yield a ridiculous third down conversion. The Skins cannot improve their defense radically with a few moves; it will take more than that. Mainly, they need better coaching. Then they need better talent on the line. If they can somehow find one DL who can congest the center, that is probably the one single greatest thing they can do in the offseason to take the biggest jump forward in overall quality. The rest, I'm afraid, will take time, talent and development.

Best scenario for the defense: Norman calms down, continues superior play. Breeland rebounds to 2015 form. McCloughan buys a nosetackle and drafts a first-rate DL; gets another two DL picks who actually do develop under new coach Tomsula's tutelage. Galette returns and plays well. Finally, Cravens develops into a good whatever-he-is. If all these things happen, and Skins offense resembles teams of 2015 and 2016, the defense will be above league average.

The Skins don't need much. They are a playoff team right now. To be a Super Bowl winner, they must develop either an above average defense or take their offense to the highest possible level, with Cousins developing his winnership skills, so to speak, or a truly killer RB developing so that the skins' offense is close to unstoppable. Then even an average or slightly below average defense will suffice.

There are no teams out there great on both sides of the ball because the rules make it impossible to pay for top talent at all positions. So every team will be lopsided. The Skins are an offensive team. Their thing is moving the ball easily and scoring points. That's not going to change, nor should it. Rather, that ability should be protected and improved. And if the defense can chip in some help, so much the better. But don't kid yourself the Skins are going to develop a killer defense; no, the story of the next five  years will be what the Skins offense can do, assuming Cousins is resigned, as they'd be crazy not to. Really, all the Skins need to do is become average on defense. And all that requires is stopping some runs up the middle, and preventing opponents from converting low-percentage third downs. Very doable. It will be very interesting to see what sort of results new DL coach Jim Tomsula can produce.

Their Offense Is Their Defense

The Redskins should focus on preserving their core: their great OL coach, their good head coach, their very good QB, their first-rate TE Reed, their first-rate WR, Their blossoming pick Crowder. Their source of indefinable strength, Garcon, the first to affirm the new QB when things could have gone another way.

I do believe Cousins and Gruden can and will improve in coming years. Same for Crowder. The OL is in good shape, and Scherff and Moses are still in the waxing phase. Perhaps the left guard can be upgraded. The necessary refinements here are: Gruden must learn clock management. Cousins must learn to make better decisions re running the ball, and focus on winning games not producing stats. Less fear, more leadership, more vocal, more inspiring. 

The running game will have to be taken as it comes. It's clear Kelley can do something. He's not the best. But if he can avoid fumbling, he's good enough. Against most teams he can gain yardage on most carries. 

The downside of conventions is they trap us into one way of looking at things when we need to continually see them from as many different angles as possible so we don't miss anything. In grabbing for better defense, the Redskins might too lightly esteem the players they do have. It's convention to divide teams into offense and defense, and with obvious reason, but the reality is that the best defense any team can have is keeping its own offense on the field. And the best offense has the best players. So you don't just hurt the offense when you let a DeSean Jackson go, you hurt the defense. So if you ignore the conventional view and just look at the quality of the player, no matter his specific position, then you reach a very different way of looking at things. For every TD pass or deep completion that departs with Jackson, think about what you give up. When he scores or causes a FG to be scored, he has created a need to produce an entire successful drive for the opposition. That's not defense - that's better than defense. 

The point of football is not to keep the other guy from scoring but to keep him from having the ball until you can put at least 21 points between him and yourself (35 if your QB is named Ryan). The better your offense, the less your defense is on the field, the more rested it is, the lower the quality of players it can get by with. This is not the only way to look at things, but it is a serious way of regarding them given where the talent exists on the current roster. In giving up any of the great players up for agency the Redskins risk losing more than is apparent. 

The Redskins defense is not going to be great in 2017. It is possible they will be above average, but they will not be great. The law of averages, the wheel of Fortuna, will probably swing back their way some, and that will be enough to get them toward average, in conjunction with the offense being as good as before, or close to it. Some of the secondary players may develop some over last year. Perhaps a free agent can be brought in. Perhaps a good DL can be drafted. But these things won't cohere overnight. The offense is already in place. All moves should be made with the consideration of protecting this goose that lays the golden eggs. In my view, this translates into: the Skins are well positioned capwise. They have money. They should spend that money on retaining their great catchers, all of them if they can. Because the truth is that it will be easier for them, if they let those guys go, to go downhill on offense than to improve the defense. 

I believe what Jackson says, that the Skins are very close to being an elite team. Jackson has been more valuable than Josh Norman, who refuses to refrain from drawing selfish personal foul penalties. Jackson is like T.Y. Hilton in that he easily runs by people. It's easy to underestimate how valuable that is, and the Skins risk learning a hard lesson if they let him go. The right thing to do is retain both Jackson and Garcon -- and to pay Kirk Cousins top dollar so he's a Redskin through his most productive years. All the main players have come out in support of Cousins getting paid, and they have all said they see a bright future for the team if it continues to develop along the lines of the last two years. That's how I see it myself. It's very easy to say that X's proven ability can be supplied by Y, but you just don't know that for sure. That's precisely the glibness you repent in leisure when, say, Doctson continues to be injured, or isn't actually that good, or one of the other mainstays falls off. Anytime you give up known, proven entities such as Garcon or Jackson, who are not declining, no matter their numerical age, you run a risk. There's no need to do that given the Skins have the money to pay them both. And they both want to be Redskins and have said as much.