Landry Reports To Camp

Today was Redskins' top pick, S LaRon Landry's first day of camp. By all accounts, he acquitted himself nicely. For those of you have haven't seen Landry, he's a flat out beast. The kind of beast that I wouldn't let children around if he was on TV and they were in the room for fear that he could eat them through the airwaves.

In the interest of full disclosure, I chafed a bit at the Landry pick when we made it, lo those many moons ago, all the way back in April. Of course, back then, I thought we'd have flying cars by now, but I digress.

Traditional thought says that you "win and lose in the trenches". Everyone has heard that saying. It's pretty much a cliche like "don't put that in your mouth, you don't know where it's been". And "See, I told you not to put that in your mouth. Now you have lockjaw. Satisfied?"

We've all seen the Vince Lombardi video talking about his power sweep on the chalk board and how it was designed to be run "in the alley". You draft players to stop those types of plays first and foremost. I seriously doubt we'd ever see Lombardi designing a play to be run "out of the alley, around the corner, down the street and in the parking garage", where safeties live.

Who could blame any sane person for questioning the Redskins' braintrust for taking a DB with their top pick for 3 times in 4 years? I mean, who does that? Especially when the Redskins couldn't stop Bob Hope from running for 4 yards per carry. And not the Road to Bali Bob Hope either, I'm talking about the dead one.

Well, I'm here to tell you that I'm buying the Landry hype hook, dysfunctional defensive line and sinker. The tandem of Sean Taylor and LaRon Landry is going to be something to watch for a few years. I just hope that they are so incredible in the defensive backfield so as to mesmerize opposing offenses into just handing them the ball every play and then making them some eggs benedict in the futile hope that the Devastating Duo won't rip out their collective spines like the Predator.

Ah, good times.

Just make sure you block the channel on your TiVo so that the kids don't end up in therapy after seeing Taylor and Landry reenacting scenes from 300 in Little D.