Aston Gambino

This time of year, as the shattered pieces of broken NFL dreams are pieced back together in hope of building (or rebuilding) a Super Bowl-bound franchise, front offices are forced to make some of the [B]toughest decisions[/B] of their careers - who to hire, who to fire, who to acquire, and who to simply admire.

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Decisions concerning free agency, renewing contracts, offering tenders, proposing...

The Redskins faithful enter this 2010 offseason with more questions than answers. How will the player's react to all these new coaches? Will we able able to transition to the 3-4 effectively? Is Chris Samuels going to retire? What will be the fate of Jason Campbell? How will we approach free agency with the possibility of an uncapped year looming? Has Clinton's time run out in D.C.?

Perhaps the most compelling question, if not the most important, is [B]what will new head coach...

These days, it's getting harder to stay interested in this Redskins team, much less upbeat and positive.

In 9 games, we've [B]managed to win only 3[/B], two of which came [B]against teams currently tied for the worst record[/B] in the entire NFL, and the other looked to be heading toward a blowout loss until the opposing quarterback got knocked out of the game. Chris Samuels, the best offensive lineman on an otherwise sub-par unit, is done for the year and probably his career. ...

Earlier this week while reading about a six-year old boy who flew away in his father's homemade helium ship on Cnn.com, I was lucky to read at least one headline that didn't make me convinced the apocalypse was upon us - [URL="http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/10/15/garth.brooks.retirement/index.html"]Garth Brooks was coming out of retirement[/URL].

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First and foremost, a win's a win, and I'll take 'em ugly all year long.

But this red zone offensive funk needs to end pretty quickly or we're going to end up on the back of a Trivial Pursuit card for being that team Detriot beat.

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Although every red zone snap is it's own unique scenario and has it's own mini-battles that are won and lost, I decided to look at the red zone offense after two weeks,...