LaVar Wins the Just Shut Up Award

I have always felt terrible for LaVar Arrington. He came in to the NFL with unbelievable talent and dreams of becoming one of the all-time greats. Unfortunately, LaVar's career was single handedly ruined by one man, Daniel Snyder, who seemingly hired and fired defensive coordinators every season. When the Snyder regime took over the team, "The Snyde" was determined to make big splash after big splash signing over the hill and overrated big name players and coaches until his team finally won the title and his face was plastered all over the ESPN web site.

In doing so, the team had no chemistry, no consistency, and no chance. Year after year, LaVar had greater and greater aspirations and year after agonizing year, he was thrown into yet another new defensive scheme with yet another defensive coordinator and/or head coach. For the first 5 years under "The Snyde", it was flat out embarrassing to be a Redskins fan. LaVar never had a chance to mature as a player. He never had a chance to get used to a defensive scheme. He never had a chance to play with his teammates long enough to know where they would be and what they would be doing on the field. This was just a flat out waste of talent and has to go down as one of the biggest dissappointments in not only Redskins, but NFL history. Overall, LaVar is one of the biggest busts in Redskins' history. The terrible part is that it wasn't him that was the bust, it was Daniel Snyder. LaVar did have a few shining moments and a few glimpses of greatness, but they were too few and far between. He was constantly forced to take chances and play out of position on the field and he could never get his feet on solid ground. Now, all we are left with is a bunch of what could have beens. Oh yeah, and Daniel Snyder.

Be that as it may, LaVar needs to sit back and shut up. It is one thing to spout off at Daniel Snyder, the madman that ruined his career, but it is entirely another thing to call Joe Gibbs a "coward" for retiring from coaching last season. Joe Gibbs is and always will be a legend among Redskins fans, but this goes far beyond calling a hall of fame coach names.

As much as I love Joe Gibbs as a coach, the fact is he is a business man and he owns a very successful business in NASCAR. He doesn't need the grief of Daniel Snyder or his band of "fly by night" players.

Beyond that, the most difficult issue to swallow is that it is well known that Joe Gibbs has an infant grandchild who has been sick since the day he was born and has struggled just to stay alive. This poor innocent child and his mother were forced to live in the quarantined basement of their own house for an entire year where he could not go outside or even play with his own siblings. I can't even imagine the immense heartache his mother must have felt going through that. Besides making "The Snyde" a distant memory, Joe naturally wanted more time with his family as any good father or grandfather would.

It doesn't matter what differences LaVar may have had with Joe when he was still playing. To call a man a coward for wanting to be with his family and his sick grandson is a flat out disgrace. LaVar deserves a big fat slap in the face for that and I hope someone gives it to him. I would gladly do it myself, but I'm only a ghost so I can only spook him. I hope someone close to him does have the guts to stand up to him and say he was way out of line. I feel terrible about how is career went, but calling the hall of fame coach and Redskins icon, Joe Gibbs, a coward lowers LaVar's level down into the nether regions. An immediate apology to Joe is the only way LaVar stands a chance at getting a die hard Redskins fan's respect back.

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JacksGhost
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