The Redskins will be better next year, and here’s why (Part 1)

Mike Shanahan, Head Coach of the Redskins (via Redskins.com) Next next time the Washington Redskins take the field, hopefully next year, they will be better.  I am sure of it. Watching yesterday’s game was an indication of a purge being done by this coaching staff.  It is sort of like when you have the stomach flu.  It hurts and can be painful, but the main point is to “flush” everything out.  So in order for us to be able to look forward in how this team will get better, we need to see how we got here. Jim Zorn wasn’t the mistake, his philosophy was It wasn’t wrong to give Jim Zorn a shot a being coach.  It was, however, wrong for him to assume that he could take Gibbs’s team and implement half his ideas along with what was going on.  It seemed like a good idea at the time.  He stated at his introductory press conference that he was not inheriting a team in rebuild mode, rather it was a playoff ready one.  For eight games, the team looked to be t...