Too Many Cooks

The NFL limits rosters to about 52 players of which about 45 of them can be active to play in any given week. The rest are on the practice squad or injured reserve or what have you.

But no such limits apparently exists for coaching. The Redskins have hired two more coaches. Al Saunders was hired as offensive coordinator. The Redskins did not officially have one, but they have an assistant head coach, defense, which is Gregg Williams, who is not the defensive coordinator (was there one?). Jerry Gray has been hired to be defensive backs coach (though he was looking for both defensive coordinator and head coaching positions) to replace DeWayne Walker, who's headed to UCLA to be its defensive coordinator.

Point is, the Redskins are top-heavy in their coaching. People are are head coaches elsewhere are coordinators at the Redskins. People who would be coordinators now coach further down the totem pole.

Pretty soon, each player can have its own coach. John Hall, the kicker, could get his own coach. What would his title be? Assistant to the Head Coach, Kicking.

This is perhaps Dan Snyder's best strategy yet. For a while, he wanted superstars. This lead to Deion Sanders joining the team. He wanted a quarterback with a strong arm. Boom. Jeff George. Boom. Patrick Ramsey. He wanted "fun and gun" and hired Steve Spurrier. He wanted the man who won three Super Bowls. Bam. Joe Gibbs.

Now, he wants to hire every coach. They can't win if they don't have coaches. Snyder can pick up Mangini and Belichick and let's get Mike Tice and pick up Norv Tuner (again) and Marty Schottenheimer (again). Let's coax Bill Walsh out of retirement. Can we roll in Tom Landry or Vince Lombardi? Heck, John Wooden won like ten championships with UCLA, maybe the magic rubs off on football.

We can win the Reggie Bush, Vince Young sweepstakes. We'll hire them as coaches! Then, pulling a Michael Jordan, they can eventually feel that itch to compete on the field, and voila.

I hear athletes like to play video games in their spare time. I know a few people who could coach them on the virtual field too. As Spurrier used to say, we'll just "coach 'em up". Who knew the Redskins would take what Spurrier said to heart?