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Redskins must fix the protection plan.(NFL)
Steve Spurrier has watched his Redskins lose two ways: his (last year) and theirs (this year). His way keys on the offense he used at Florida: a free-spinning, down-the-field, heck-with-the-percentages approach that was ill-suited for his 2002 Redskins personnel. Their way is what the rest of the NFL advised him to do: Run more, throw shorter passes, play high-percentage football and, oh yes, protect your quarterback.
So he tried their way for the first seven games this season and still kept losing. Now he is saying, "The heck with it; I'm not having any fun coaching a different style" so it is out with theirs and back in with his.
What?
This most intelligent of coaches, a guy who I still believe will eventually become a big winner in the NFL, is confusing everyone with his strange and stubborn approach. There's nothing wrong with coaching in a comfort zone, but that works only when your preference can be effective. Poor Patrick Ramsey was battered under the more conservative structure. What will be his life expectancy now that Spurrier wants to go more vertical with the required longer drops and slower-developing patterns?
Until ...
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