I Swear to God

thats what makes it so painful

You can love the team and not love the way it is run

Or is that too much for your mind to comprehend

He follows the Redskins closer than 95% of the people I know and he’s in Australia, do your homework alpha..

that loss was unbelievable

I always respect your posts because you think them through and you make honest assessments and you show respect to other posters

but respectfully, this post is symptomatic of the problem

FA is not the answer, teams know their own players better than anyone, if teams ahve a good QB they will pay him right, they wont let him walk, so where do we get this FA QB.

Moss is in decline, Armstrong would be 4th option at best on the top teams int he league, Torain a back up at best on the good teams. The O-Line is TWill and a bunch of hacks and old injury prone vets.

We are not close dude, we are miles away. The patriots are young, contending and have 3 picks in the top 33 next year as well another 3 before the 4th round. That is how you build a team, not with FA’s but by committing to the draft and long term planning.

BUT we refuse to do it, because we overestimate our own talent.

Other than Orakpo, Landry and maybe in a year or 2 T Williams, we do not have any players who would be guaranteed starters on the top teams in the NFL. Carlos Rogers would start for most teams, but not be guaranteed a start witht he Pats or Steelers.

Whereas those top teams have over a dozen players who would be walk up starters for us.

That is the problem right there

but that might be the best post that have seen from you so far. I am not on bandwagon for any QB on our team right now…but I am glad we are starting Grossman. Show me the upside for playing Mc Nabb. Downside is he gets seriously hurt…I would probably rather have Grossman start next year and spend our picks elsewhere than pick up Cam Newton (sorry Tiller, just doesn’t stick with me). Bad decisions have been made….and some good ones have been made as well. Regardless of what we have seen/heard through the media, looking through that I see some positives, my personal jury is out on Brown, many people wanted to give DT and MK so many chances (its takes two to three years for WR to really step up) but AA has been making some big plays already…….I am not on the Fire the Coach before the first season is over bandwagon either…cheers

I did it with my Aussie Rules team where we made the equivalent of the NFC Championship game, realised we overachieved, traded away our best players for picks and re-built (and remember we re-built not after a losing season, but after a dream run to our version of the NFC Championship game)

The thing is, the growing part is as much fun as the arriving, you see these young guys have breakout performances, you form a relationship with them, then when they have the inevitable dips of youth, you see them come back from them and mature. That part is fun too, and the payoff for that patience, you are set up not for a 1 year run, but a decade type run of dominance.

then that is just a further indictment of Shanahan, we ahd Grossman and JC17 for nothing, McNabb cost us 2 picks AND JC17.

IF we had not got McNabb we would not have been in a position where we had to give away campbell for cents on the dollar and mayhave gotten the 2nd or 3rd rd pick that Campbell deserved to garner for us.

two dedicated drafts can get it done.

Redskins have a new motto no longer are we were fading stars come to play out the remainder of their careers, we are now a place where players can come to make a name for themselves thru hard work.

So many fans want Vincent Jackson, who would just be more of the same.

because he traded away the middle rounds of the draft for a QB he has now jettisoned.

I am upset because with so many needs, he decided to draft one area of strength (TE) with our 2nd pick, a pick that he had over a month to prepare for once he jettisoned the 2nd rd pick. (or is it our 3rd, as stated above I’m too lazy to check but I thought we went TWILL MORRIS RILEY) but whatever.

Either way AT THE TIME all of us on this site, following it live, were fucking outraged at the pick (except LJP and if you want to join him on the side of any discussion please be my guest) this is the madness of it, with Blount available and a need for RB’s, with Capers and Cook still available (tho we got Capers later) he went for some unknown kid who didnt even make the PRactice Squad. and this is not MOnday MOrning Quaterbacking, go back and read the transcripts on this site from Draft night, we were all, to a man, fucking outraged

Because on the Radio Sonny Jurgensen mentioned how in practice (Obviously he has more access than we do seeing as he’s close with Snyder) McNabb didn’t give it his all and how he would always go at his own pace during practice. As you know Practice doesn’t always translate to performance on the field, BUT for the most part it does. This probably goes back to the whole reason why Philly lost the Super Bowl.

I wanted this to work out, but ultimately it can’t work when your QB has issues with your coaches. It seems as though he wanted to keep on running what he ran in Philadelphia and obviously that won’t work well especially when your run game is on fire (Look at the Tampa Bay game). Donovan McNabb’s attitude just wasn’t fully into learning the playbook and that’s most likely true because it’s only natural for veterans to feel that way especially when your Offensive Coordinator is a 30 year old kid. I know which pass you’re talking about, didn’t that basically cost us the game? Donovan has never been good under pressure and running the two minute offense and that obviously doesn’t win your championships. During the Super Bowl two minute drill he seemed out of it and he seemed very lethargic at times, not only that, but he also seemed as you said to lack any urgency during that drive his head wasn’t fully into the game.

How can you HATE McNabb?? I understand hating the Iggles and hating how McNabb killed us for a decade, but McNabb himself seems like a real classy dude.

as always