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Randle El Claims Snyder “Prevented Success”

By azelea on | From footballticketsonline.org

Wide receiver Antwaan Randle El is back with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the former Redskin is ready to put the last four seasons in Washington behind him. But why not throw a few cheap shots out at the old boss on your way out the door?

Randle El made this comment about Redskins owner Dan Snyder:

When Jim Zorn was there, he (Snyder) was hands-on. He (Zorn) had great potential, but Dan Snyder was too involved because he didn’t trust coach Zorn as much as he did coach (Joe) Gibbs, and those were things that prevented us from success as a team.

And it’s no shock that a personality like Dan Snyder would be viewed as overbearing on his unproven coach. In fact the Jim Zorn firing came at a much later time in the season then most expected and accepting such a position when you’ve never been a head coach before is a hopeless task with Snyder’s expectations. Taking such a job without the impressive resume is maybe worse then being the coach of the Oakland Raiders. But the Redskins are pleased to have acquired Mike Shanahan this off season and the former Bronco coach will likely be running things his way in Washington this upcoming season.

And Zorn probably has every right to blame an overeager owner like Snyder considering the overpaid free agents without his coaches digression Snyder brings in or possible demands the owner might make about certain players that should start over lesser paid players. But if there was any slight performed on Antwaan Randle El when he was with the Redskins, it was the fact that they rarely used the receiver as a dual threat willing to occasionally heave the ball down the field. When the Redskins signed the Steelers multitalented receiver to a ludicrous plus five million a year contract, I assumed it was done in order to use the player in some type of bizarre wildcat type of formation that would feature the former Indiana Hoosier throwing the ball once or twice a game.

But over the last four years Randle El didn’t throw the ball nearly as much as he did in Pittsburgh during that playoff run and a lot of his appeal was lost because of this. The former Steeler became a mediocre third receiver option and became slightly lost in an offense of inefficient QB’s. The lack of reverses or even reverse passes made Randle El mediocre in every sense of the word. It will be interesting to see how Randle El is used this season in Pittsburgh. Can the receiver rediscover some of that postseason magic?

You know Snyder is hoping Shanahan can.

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