A lack of NFL sports betting activity does not mean that the NFL is not creating its fair share of headlines. When it comes to grabbing some of the more interesting headlines in the last couple of years, the NFL Vegas football betting crown has to go to the Washington Redskins. If the indignant manner of disgruntled $100 million employee Albert Haynesworth was not enough, there is always the growing feud between new starting quarterback Donovan McNabb and new head coach Mike Shanahan to keep everyone busy. No one expected inept administrative skills from Mike Shananhan, but the newest Redskins' quarterback controversy shows a side to Shanahan that no one in football would have expected.

Mike Shanahan has made an absolute mess of the Washington Redskins. He creates disgruntled players, tries to start those players and then acts surprised when those players rebel. The Redskins should have cut their losses with Albert Haynesworth when the defensive lineman and the head coach could not see eye to eye on Haynesworth's new role in the Redskins' defense. If it was too expensive to cut him, then sit him on the bench and trot him out there to try and block kicks.

But Shanahan saw fit to put Haynesworth in the starting lineup and erase any chance the Redskins had of making stops up the middle. On more than one occasion, there is film of Haynesworth simply lying down on the turf after the ball is snapped. Not only would Shanahan refuse to bench Haynesworth, he still insists that Haynesworth will be a functioning member of the Redskins if there is a 2011 season. The Shanahan ego blew it in the Haynesworth situation, and now it is causing problems in the quarterback area.

There were questions about who the starting quarterback really was when the Redskins' 2010 season ended. Rex Grossman started the last two games of the season because Shanahan said he wanted to "give Rex a look." Shanahan just spent the previous 14 games alienating his original starting quarterback, Donovan McNabb, by saying that Donovan's conditioning and game preparation were suspect. But when the season ended, no announcement was made as to what was going on with the Redskins' quarterbacks.

The lockout only compounds the issue. Shanahan cannot meet with his quarterbacks to impart some of his new-found wisdom, and the Redskins' management is surely not going to announce a starter when there is a labor dispute.

Now, enter Rex Grossman. Grossman, who had not started a game in over a year when he got the nod at the end of last season, goes on Washington, DC sports radio and announces that he expects to be the starter in 2011. Did he earn the job? No. Was an announcement made? No. Rex just assumes that since he was the last starter on the roster, that carries over into the next season.

Then things got even more complicated when third-string quarterback John Beck wound up being the guy that organized lockout workouts for the Redskins. It wasn't McNabb, and it wasn't Grossman. It was Beck. Beck also expects to be the starter in 2011, but nothing has ever been announced.

Donovan McNabb has remained brilliantly silent through all of this. Shanahan refuses to release or trade McNabb. Instead, Shanahan feels that he can come to some sort of an agreement with the quarterback that he publicly humiliated last season about McNabb's role on the team. The problem is, no one knows what that role will be.

There has to be some kind of vortex that exists at FedEx Field which takes good football people and turns them into incompetent bumblers. The only thing that Redskins fans can count on for the immediate future is more of the same. They should consider replacing "Hail to the Redskins" with "Send in the Clowns" until owner Daniel Snyder decides to hire a real football person and leave the football to the experts.