Suisham Gone!

The rebuilding of the Redskins has started and it begins with Shaun Suisham. Multiple sources including ESPN 980 and ESPN's Adam Schefter repot that Suisham has been released. To take his place, kicker Graham Gano has been signed. Gano most recently played for the Las Vegas Locomotives of the UFL and was a contender for the kicker position in the Ravens pre-season until he was released just before the regular season started. Based on his bio, I find it funny as he reminds me of Nigel Gruff from the 2000 movie "The Replacements" as both are from "across the pond". However, Gano is genuine as he played for Florida State in college.

Suisham had a longer than expected stint with the Redskins, at least in the eyes of everyone except Washington's front office. I wished that he were cut immediately after the game on Sunday, but somehow he lasted until Tuesday. Really, there is always someone else out there. Consistently inconsistent, one might argue this was his best season until we faced the Cowboys a couple of weeks ago and the team began losing games because of his missed kicks. He was also never a great kickoff man, always landing the ball well short of the endzone. There was one season the Redskins had a second kicker on the squad just for kickoffs. That might have been former Maryland Terrapin Nick Novak, who was at Redskins Park this week trying to win Suisham's job that eventually went to Gano.

Goodbye Suisham. There are few Redskins I wish ill on. I won't dwell on it, but I do wish he ends up with the Cowboys, the Giants or the Eagles so he can screw up their team. So also ends the poll we put up yesterday. Inexplicably, there were a few responses of keeping Suisham. Maybe they were doing it in jest. There was an argument that at least we know what Suisham is capable of. Which is total BS, because a professional kicker should not miss 23 yard chip shots. He's missed a bunch of "easy" kicks in the past. At least even is Gano is bad, we will find out soon and maybe Snyder and Cerrato have a short trigger now.