so much for “there’s always next year,” if this actually comes to fruition.

I’ll hold out hope that on draft day Danny’s tied up in a closet somewhere with a gag in his mouth, but I won’t hold my breath.

Time to get ready for Patrick Ramsey pt. 3 :(

…But I’m still optimistic. The Redskins have a lot of work to do, and it will not all be done in one offseason. We NEED a quarterback that is going to grow to be solid for 60 minutes per game. We NEED an O-line. We’re not going to get it all next year, but we can start building. I don’t know who is graduating in 2011, but I do know that some solid QBs are graduating in 2010. Let’s get one. We will still be able to pick up some solid O-line, too.
If you look at what’s happening now, we’re losing our starters and doing better with the young guys that haven’t seen much action yet. I think we have a better O-line than we think. They’ve just been hidden behind overpaid veterans. Those veterans should be teaching the young guys, not taking their place on the field.
I think the end of the season is going to allow us a chance to see just what kind of O-line we have so we have a better idea of what to draft.
Maybe I’m just full of holiday warm and fuzzies, but I’m feeling optimistic.

and jack left town. A bunch of folks up above are talking about the ability of buying an O-line and rebuilding through FA. It isn’t going to work. Compare what we do to teams in the NFL that are actually successful. You build your core through the draft, particularly the guys that play on the line of scrimmage. Free agency is then used to complement it, a WR here or a CB or DE there specifically selected not for numbers necessarily but to suit your system. Currently it almost looks like we try to build the team through free agency. I was about to say that we complement the FA moves with the draft but really it’s more accurate to say we just use our draft picks as trade bait.

Yes, in theory it is good that Danny is willing to spend money. However coherence matters way more. This isn’t baseball where you can just buy a pitcher or a slugger for a low risk tangible contribution. In football the team works as a unit and if there isn’t cohesion they’ll never win consistently regardless of what the talented FA’s did on other teams.

If this was going to be done correctly Vinny would be fired and Danny would quietly ask Goodell for a short list of GM candidates to revive one of the NFL’s premier franchises so that everybody can keep getting rich. That person would then be given a solid 4-5 years to put a team together and have complete control over personnel, coaching, players, scouts, everybody. Sadly it sounds less and less likely that it is going to happen.

and Desmond Howard too. Instead of getting Offensive line Players Snyder spent his $ on securing Sellers contract. Sellers isn’t blocking for Portis anymore. It has been very eveident this season , who the Slacker is.. Quit looking at QB’s Snyder & get rid of the GM and get some decent Offensive lineman in there & replacements that have multiple assignment skills…in other wards the must be Flexible at several positions.
If we had Champ Bailey, Brian Westbrook and Desmond Howard that the management at Washington gave away in trades.. we have some more quality players from which to build from. It has already been documented how your current management traded these good players away. Don’t trade Campbell, get him better protection.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/25/redskins-samuels-optimistic-about-playing-again/

It would be interesting if Samuels did come back in 2010. That offers the possibility that he could play right tackle and Levi Jones, left tackle. The Skins would still need to draft OL for depth in that scenario.

a first round drafted QB refused to play for the Skins what would happen? I know in baseball that if you’re drafted and don’t ultimately sign with a team you essentially get relegated to the independent league for several seasons. What happens in the NFL? Do you have to go play in the CFL or XFL or something for the duration of your rookie contract?

Not that I would necessarily want this but how hilarious would it be if we drafted a QB and he refused to sign with us? I’ve never heard the rules about it.

Stephon Heyer is arguably the worst o lineman in the league wouldn’t you be apprehensive about passing when there are 300 pound lineman hitting you every play after going through 5, 300 pound lineman Snyder needs to stop all of this evaluating talent he tried to go after Mark Sanchez and look what hes done the last couple of games without an offensive line you cant move down the field and you give field position to the other team how are you supposed to win?

Clausen is awful the whole Notre Dame team is awful but the receivers if Clausen was so good why does his team suck where has Clausen been the last three years sucking it up with Charlies Wise they cant even beat Navy well Navy is pretty good but that’s beside the point if Clausen was the Savior people are hyping him up to be Notre Dame wouldn’t suck Colt Mccoy hasn’t played anyone good his entire collegiate career the last time he was challenged was probably high school

If you make it to the NFL, you are good. You can take a average QB and put him behind a good OL and you will be a success. You can put a great QB behind a bad OL and he will be out of the league in 3 years. The OL are not star players, but they are the heart and soul of the team. I would got to Japan and get 10 of the biggest sumo wrestlers and win the superbowl. 10 of them, so them can change out a lot.

we have three super bowl trophies that prove the offensive line as a whole unit matters more than the QB. And there are plenty of other SB winning teams that have also won with mediocre QBs. There are teams that have won with elite QBs. But nobody has ever won without a top 5 line on both sides of the ball.

WE need Ted!!! ( Todd Collins) in the game on Sunday against the Eagles. In the lil time he did play he gets the job done Ted! Everybody stepped there game up on Sunday against the Cowboys. But JC can’t get us a TD in the red zone. He just can’t do it! Give Ted (Todd Collins) a chance n the 2nd half if JC can’t get her done. I just want Todd to start an c what happens can’t b no worst than Campbell.

If a new CBA isn’t reached, he becomes a Restricted Free Agent, and we can keep him for one more year with a qualifying offer. My guess is that, whoever the GM is this offseason, that’s what’s going to happen if the opportunity presents itself. It’ll give Campbell one more year to prove himself, either to our current regime of Campbell-doubters-who-know-there’s-no-better-option-but-really-wish-they-could-kidnap-Tom-Brady-because-they-only-value-hall-of-famers or to a new GM. Besides, even if a “franchise” QB is drafted in the first round this year, Campbell could stay in there and take the abuse that comes with this OL and they could groom the new QB for the next year. Of course, Campbell wouldn’t like that, but he is a professional who would do the job he was asked, even if it was a BS job. And he’d probably get another 3000 yard season (if he survived the entire year) and be an even bigger steal for whoever his next team would be.

…upgrade O-Line

There is nobody at Notre Dame worth evaluating. It’s one of the worst college football teams in the nation this year!

You do not watch footballl i can tell !! It is very clear you have not watched the packers play. How many short passes has Rodgers thrown that have turned into big plays?? I will answer that question, alot. Rodgers has receivers that catch short slant passes and out run and make mutipe people miss. We do not have a Donald driver on the team. Santana Moss is to small and not strong enough to break arm tackles. It is easy to take risks when you have receivers that will go get the ball and out physical the DB’s right now we do not have any. I can see Devin thomas becoming one though. Jason Campbell taking a risk is called a interception. You need receivers that will not allow themselves not to be bumped off the ball to throw into tight coverage and we don’t have any ?? Pay attenion some of JC 17’s interceptions have been caused by the receiver allowing the DB to push him out of the way. Do you not remember the pass on the sideline the Moss lost due to being bumped out of bounds. Maybe you have a bad memory but alot of Chris Cooleys catches were into tight coverage. He was the only receiver JC trusted with throwing those types of passes.

Good receivers go after the ball the DB’s will not even try and jump the route because they know they will not out physical them. So they either make a safe tackle or knock the ball down. You will not see a average DB jumping the route of any decent receiver because you will get boxed out and end up on the ground as the receiver goes by you and into the endzone.

JC cost us the game ??Lol .. That is the dumbest statement you have made so far. JC kept us in the game by making alot of big plays on third and long that kept Dallas off of the field.