My biggest problem with Josh Morgan’s bonehead move yesterday was not the penalty or even the action itself. The issue is that I sat on my couch and watched a player on my favorite team act like a 7-year-old getting called out in kickball — and I was not surprised at all.
It’s been going on for a while in DC. It seems every week we are in someones face, shoving players, or blaming someone else. That is not a personnel or front office problem, it is a culture problem and one that needs to be fixed.
Now time for some examples from the past that proves this isn’t new stuff.
Let’s start in 1997 in the very same game that Gus Frerotte first unveiled the “Redskin Ram”. After a questionable catch on the side line, WR Michael Westbrook threw off his helmet in protest. Boom 15 yards. Boom out of field goal range. Boom game ends in a tie.
2000 playoffs… the Redskins were whipping up on the Lions when Lions defensive end Robert Porcher made a questionable down field block after Skins QB ...
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