This Redskins team looks completely out of touch and out of sync. The team does not look well conditioned at all. Does Coach Jim Zorn deserve all of the blame? No. Some of the fixes I will mention can take place after the season is over.

Here’s how I would fix this Redskins team:

1) Fire Vinny Cerrato. I’d like to fire Dan Snyder but, can anyone afford to buy the team? Maybe Richard Branson. Cerrato has been awful everywhere he’s been. First at Notre Dame, then in San Francisco, and now at Washington. Vinny is just not a good judge of talent. When is the last time we had a decent draft? We need a respected football guy in charge of the team like Gibbs had in Bobby Beathard. But, will any of the respected football guys want to work with a guy like Dan Snyder?

2) In the most recent history of the Redskins (since Joe Gibbs I), the Redskins have always had a better chance of winning when they establish the run and stick to it. I don’t know what the exact record is but, when a Redskins back runs for over 100 yards, we’re pretty good. Establishing the run also sets up the downfield passing game.

3) Put Mike Williams in at Right Tackle. And get Chris Samuels to the bench. Samuels just looks old. 8 years of lining up against some of the best defensive ends the NFL has to offer have taken its toll. He gets beaten regularly as does Heyer on the right side. The two stretch plays the Skins have run running to the left haven’t worked because Samuels couldn’t hold his end. Stephon Heyer is a natural Left Tackle so he would fair better on the left side.

4) Fire the training staff. Whoever hired these folks should be ashamed as many players look out of shape even after weeks of OTAs and training camp. We need some folks who will actually get these guys fit.

5) Bring in Mike Shanahan and demote Jim Zorn. I like Bill Cowher but, I think he will be in Carolina next year. Cowher lives in Charlotte so he won’t have to go far to work. Shanahan will help right the ship and get us back to where we need to be as a team. Last year, Zorn’s play calling was awesome in the first half of the year and dreadful in the second half. Sadly, that has continued over into this season. Let him concentrate on being a coordinator and getting back to being agressive on offense. As a head coach, Zorn looks like he is in over his head. Question remains, would Mike Shanahan want to work with a guy like Dan Snyder?

6) End the Orakpo experiment. Brian Orakpo is better at rushing the QB. Let him rush the QB full time like the Giants did with LT years ago. Orakpo just looks lost at LB in coverage. You can certainly move Orakpo around on the line to cause mismatches like the G-men would do with LT. Getting a pass rush is necessary because it creates problems for the opposing teams offense and we aren’t getting it right now on a consistent basis.

Just watch and wait till around Thanksgiving time. That’s when the Capitals have always seemed to wake up and start playing some serious hockey. Speaking of the Capitals, Alexander Semin is playing like a man possessed. Is there a better player in hockey right now?

Dennis Dillon on Sportingnews.com has the Redskins ranked fifth on his list of teams likely to make it to the Super Bowl. What is alarming is he has the Diva filled Cowboys one spot ahead. Seriously! I mean, seriously! (Just got done watching Grey’s Anatomy with my wife…). I agree the Cowgirls are loaded but this team reminds me of the old Yankees or Red Sox team that had the 25 players taking 25 cars to the stadium. Translated: The team has no chemistry. remember, we get the Cowboys at home on the 16th of November. I believe (and not because I can’t stand the Cowboys) that the playoff drought will continue for the ‘Boys. Right now, I’d have to say the Titans are the team to beat in the NFL. They are a lot like the 2000 Ravens squad. Great D & O-line, good run game, and an aging QB (sorry Trent…) who makes few mistakes.

Seriously? – Katherine Heigl

One thing to remember about this week’s upcoming Redskins game against the Steelers is this. In the last 16 of the last 17 elections (that’s 68 years), the last Redskins home game before the national election has correctly predicted the winner. If the Redskins win, the incumbent party retains the Big House. If the visiting team wins, then the challenging party has taken the White House. The only difference was 2004 when the Packers beat the Skins 28-14 and John Kerry lost to George W. Bush by a slim margin. Just something to keep in mind.

Did you seriously have to bring that up? – John Kerry

At the seasons halfway point there is one alarming statistic that stands out. The D, although they play great team D, only has 10 sacks. I don’t know about you, but that is pathetic. Is it because the linemen in the league are so huge and Andre Carter and Jason Taylor are undersized? I don’t know all of the facts, but they have gotten some pressure on the QB, just not the sacks. Coach Blache had a great line today. He said in his afternoon presser that the D ‘couldn’t sack groceries‘ which is simply claaaasic. Love the weekly Blachisms.

So, fellow sports fans I leave you on this week’s midweek roundup with three questions:

1. Who is your pick for the Super Bowl? Has the pick changed since the beginning of the season?
2. Who is your MVP of the league (NFL) so far?
3. Will the Titans go undefeated during the regular season?

Michael Roos, Jake Scott, Kevin Mawae, Eugene Amano and David Stewart are paving the way for a running game averaging 4.5 yards a carry, fourth-best in the NFL, and they’ve allowed just two sacks all season. You can tell me other lines — the Giants or Bucs, most notably — are excellent and might be the best in football, but don’t tell me any line is better than Tennessee’s. The facts just don’t bear it out.

The thing that irritates me about this column is that he doesn’t even mention the Dirtbags. The Dirtbags (a.k.a. the Redskins offensive line, a.k.a. the Hogs 2.0) have made enough room for Clinton Portis (did you see how he was stylin’ after the game?) to rumble for a league leading 944 yards and a 5.0 average. The Titans leading rusher Chris Johnson, is a measly 400 yards behind Portis.

Who do think is the better line?

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Mike Fiorio opines that Jason Campbell is a front runner for MVP, he is obviously overlooking one of the main reasons the Redskins are 6-2 and that would be 944 yards and 7 TDs from the great Clinton Portis.

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Plaxico Burress, Giants star Wideout, fined last week $45K by the league for his actions during and after the game against the 49ers, didn’t start due to his missing a treatment session for a neck injury. I wonder if he’ll be fined again. Maybe he’s trying to get his salary under the $250K threshold in anticipation of an Obama administration.

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Kudos to Mike Singletary. Mike is going to be a GREAT head coach in the No Fun League. It seems to me, based on what I’ve read since Mike Nolan was canned, that Coach Nolan liked to baby his players a little (kind of like Coach Gibbs would do with Clinton Portis).Well, that’s over guys. Just listen to the post game presser below:

Thankfully he listened and benched the dreadful JT O’Sullivan. It’s going to be a while before he can turn things around. Let’s hope the 49er brass let’s him stay on.

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Pam Oliver had a senior moment:

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Tired of all the Obama and McCain ads littering the airwaves? Guitar Hero has one of the better commercials out right now.

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Finally, saw this video on SI. Check out the kicker as he gets laid out on the opening kickoff. Pretty cool.

Quarterback Colt Brennan is now an NFL quarterback. But, he still hasn’t gone through his rookie hazing ritual. Washington Redskin wide receiver Antwaan Randle El documents the embarrassing act for MouthPiece Sports.

Enjoy…