Guest Post: Fixing the blloyd thing

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From reader Tab:

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The next few weeks are crunch time for the Redskins--will this team make a reasonable & practical push to the playoffs or will it again fold and die, with only the continued maturation of Jason to cling to as their super bowl? Never has there been a time for a player to "step up & make plays" to use on old Gibb-ism....as the O-Line struggles mightily to even take the field, much less dominate a game in true NFC-East Champion form, and compliment a resurgent defense. Randel-El? He's doing what he can in a newer, greatly expanded role--we almost broke him a few weeks back a la George Allen w\Larry Brown. Cooley? Does what he can as always, and will be harder yet now that he'll become part Hog to protect Jason--which should be the highest priority. Portis? Fewer holes these days than ever but he'd be a high possibility we'd look for. No, it has to be someone who no one would suspect at this point, and that would be none other than the invisible man himself: Brandon Lloyd. That NFL Network commercial, where they sing softly "Where you at?..Where you at?..where you aatttttt eighty-fiiiiivvve..?" (and they show Chad Johnson in a space ship or something)?? Well where's our 85? His own damn space ship I guess......

Just like a can of spray paint you just bought and lost the receipt for, that you know is full but you can't get to work, and you shake it like hell and bang it against the workbench, and throw across the room and keep trying: time to apply same to BLloyd. And I can think of no better past player, present person and potential player coach to be assigned as his personal coach\mentor\shadow than #84: Gary Clark. If you were at the game vs. the Lions a few weeks back and had the dignity and wherewithal to stick around at halftime (instead of running inside and buying a $7 hotdog), you would have seen what I saw: the still burning desire inside one of the best, toughest, most unselfish (well, as much as a WR can be) players in 'skins history. Just have BLloyd assigned to Mr Clark from here through the end of the season--which if there is a God would be well after the New Year---as his protégé, his student, his assignee and for lack of a better word, his boy. The first person Blloyd sees when he comes off the field, whether he made a catch (1 this season so far!!!) or again whiffed, is Gary. First person he see's when he arrives to Redskins park for practice: Gary. Who's drilling him night and day on the playbook? Gary. Who does he need to impress play in and play out? Gary. Who does he report to when he wakes up--or get woken up by for that matter? Gary. Who does he get the snot slapped out of him by if he even starts to pout or make like a punk? Yep......Gary Clark. Maybe--just maybe, by some stroke of miracle, even an inkling of #84's tenacity and heart and termination and never quit attitude will rub off on Blloyd, and from the dismal, steaming, rotting pile of fecal matter that is so far his Redskins career, Blloyd "makes some plays" for Coach Joe. What a chance to erase his ignominy although only from help from Mr Clutch himself, and rise these next several weeks while others who toil valiantly through non-shin-splint injuries heal, and look up and actually see #85 pulling in a huge TD catch to get us to the next week with a win, then something else significant--like a hellacious block maybe--the week after, then who knows........we're in post Christmas games.......and suddenly Blloyd is a player.

Where you at.....85...?

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Thank you Tab and can I get an amen?



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