Are the Redskins Better Off Than We Give Them Credit For?

I think if they did not sell us on a win now mode and that they were building for the future, this year would have beed fine. No pressure and we would know that the future is bright. We are in a 5 win season with the promise of the future s here, when we know it is not. We are now missing three key components gone via trading draft picks. That puts us in a situation to go get more aging free agents. So it is status quo.

Jus do it the Ted Leonsis way. PLEASE!!!!!

of 8-8. While achieving mediocrity maybe a long. difficult, process the team might just get to 9-7 after that. Or it may backslide for 2 or more years to 6-10 or 7-9. Hopefully, by 2020 the roster will be retooled and the Redskins can get back to 8-8 or even 9-7 . Maybe even slide into a wildcard game during the the next 2 decades. But this depends on how good Cory Gibbs and Kyle Shanahans unborn children and grand children are at coaching. Unless Jim Zorn III is suddenly made HC. So ya, I think things will get better at some point during the next 30 years.

signed and lets get on with it, unless the young McNabb Shanahan referred to is Pryor. I don’t have a doubt in my mind that Washington will make a play for Jackson. They tried to trade for him and couldn’t get the deal done. Now its easy because its about money and that always seems to simplify problems for this organization. If they weren’t willing to pay him, they would not have tried to trade for him. I don’t care who they sign or what they pay the player, just don’t trade draft picks.

The fact that Philly let him go so easily and to a rival says it all. McNabb has skills, but he is over rated. Stop wasting time and money on has beens and over rated “stars”, and just build the team and time will take care of it. Allen is a great GM and we need to give Shanahan a chance.

the biggest negative this year was the goofy switch to the 3-4. They are probably going to stick with it, and making it work will require 4 or more players at least, including a rare commodity – a nose tackle. The offense is getting better and can soon be good – need a QB, one or two guards, a WR. I’d use the first round pick on Luck, Mallett, Locker or Newton. Going cheap this year and dumping some expensive people puts them in good financial shape for next year – they can afford to spend a lot on players. It seems to me things are looking pretty good.

I think that the idea to bring in the 2005 ProBowl backfield was an attempt to make us competitive by pounding the ball becasue they knew that we didn’t have what we needed on the line or at the WR position to execute the offense. Once that went up in smoke we ended up heading right where we are now.

There are things that need to change, but you can’t dump the entire roster nor should you anyway. You bring in someone that hopefully gives you the leadership at the main position and try to run with that. You try to evaluate the roster at the same time and you also have to sell tickets in the process.

McNabb’s had 13 weeks to show us what he can do. Right now we’re trying to see if he’s part of the long term solution, was part of the problem or if we both need to part ways. Either way it doesn’t make sense to pay someone $10MIL a season to be 5-11.

There’s no way to know exactly what you got until you run through a season. If the cap situation is as improved as it sounds than I’m actually more excited about the idea of long term success than a band aid type blockbuster deal that blows out by week 8 and we’re right back where we started again.

And while the season’s W-L record doesn’t reflect it and the team’s stats aren’t great I can see an improvement over the last few seasons in terms of execution, attitude and aggresiveness on the field. We’re heading in a direction; right or wrong which is a huge improvement over the last few years. At least we’re creating an identity.

Kevin has been dipping into the eggnog bowl now that the kool-aid is Gone WIth The Wind!
$33 million in cap space? The Danny could very well blow all that on the NEXT Haynesworth or sign a guaranteed bust (Mallet? Newton?) in the draft in order to power-up his hype machine.
This little piggy ain’t buyin’ that schtick no mo’.
It’s “wait and see” time, here. If (and its a HUGE if,) the offseason brings youth and talent instead of “big names” I’ll ride the bandwagon again but it’s more of the same-old-same-old,
this puppy is getting off at the next stop.

It seems to me (an old argument) that if you are thinking of trading a draft choice for a player, the question is, does that player have more value to us than the guy we’re likely to get with the pick? The Skins should soon be able to have a tentative draft list, giving them an idea of what kind of value they can get for each pick, then compare the possibilities to potential free agents. Last year, they might have figured that the best QB they could get with a second round pick was Colt McCoy (figuring Bradford and Claussen gone) – so who would we want – McNabb or McCoy? If they have several picks and possible trades, the comparisons wouldn’t have to be position for position. It’s obvious that any team should do their best with the draft, but in many cases free agency is more important. We only have two real picks (I figure anything past the third round is pure guesswork), and one will be used on a QB. And there are at least 2 or 3 needs (most important – NT) on the defensive line alone (assuming they stick with the 3-4), plus O-line (especially guard), WR, safety, maybe RB.