Dear Jon Letter…

Dear Jon,

Mr. Jansen, I would like to thank you for being a stand-up Redskin. Every since we drafted you in the second round in 1999 (37th overall) you have been great. Coach Turner could not have picked a better character player. A two-time First-Team All-Big Ten tackle out of Michigan who was a team captain was definitely the right move. The Redskins have a legacy of selfless “Hogs� upfront who protect our average quarterbacks and plow the way for great runners. With the return of Gibbs and Bugel now should be your time to shine! The only problem is that you are so occupied with your broadcasting career you have forgotten that you still have to play football. I speak for the Redskin nation when I say that I am tired of seeing you on Comcast Monday nights cracking jokes about our loses.  I am tired of hearing you on the Sports Reports on Sportstalk 980am. I do not want to even see you on any NFL Draft shows on ESPN talking about who we should draft.

Honestly Jon, who do you think you are, Joe Jacoby? Yeh, yeh, I know, you are the longest tenured Redskin on the roster, I know that your nickname is or “used to be� Rock, but what have you done for me lately? What have you done for the Redskins lately? You are so preoccupied with how the NFL has an HGH problem that you forget to block your man. You stated that half the NFL is on HGH, well after watching you play this season all the Skins fans definitely know which half your on.

Sorry, Jon… Maybe I am being to hard on you. I am just used to greatness. Growing up we remember a tackle by the name of Joe Jacoby. There is no way on God’s green earth that after Dallas kicked our ass on Sunday night football Joe Jacoby would be on Comcast SportsNite Monday cracking jokes about it. There is nothing funny about losing to a division rival 27-10 in front of a national audience. Do you find it amusing that we could not get an offense touchdown? Apparently you did, you thought it was hilarious that your offensive line allowed six sacks. You joked that since it was Brunell’s 36th birthday you wanted to see if he could still scramble like he used to, if Mark could still take a hit. For a present you helped peel him off the turf. Is that showing your team leadership Mr. Rock, Mr. Longest Tenure?  We are 2-4. Your offensive line did not even bother to show up against the lowly Titans last Sunday. The Redskins were only able to rush for one hundred and twenty-five yards against the second worst rushing defense in the NFL. Subtract the thirty-three yards that Santana had you could not even dominate the line to get our running backs one hundred yards! Tennessee allows and average of 164.5 yard per game on the ground. That would not have happened against the Hogs. Clinton would have rushed for two hundred yards had a real line been out there like, Jacoby, Grimm, Starke, and May. Ernest Byner, George Rogers, Timmy Smith, and Ervins could have ran for at least one hundred yards against that team and none of them are as talented as Portis.

I do not have a problem with Dockery, Rabach, Thomas, or Samuels… well maybe Samuels. The problem lies with your decisions. You cannot call yourself a team leader when you are on television and radio as much as you are in practice. Do you think that four time Pro-Bowler, three time Super Bowl champion, NFL 1980 All-Decade Team member Joe Jacoby thought it was funny when the Redskins lost? Do you think he went on the radio and television and joked about it on Mondays? How many trips to Hawaii have you taken Jon?  How many huge Super Bowl blocks have you made? Exactly, until then maybe you should try and stay in front of a defensive end instead of a camera or mic, dirt bag.

Sincerely,

Ian