Who was the worst acquisition of the last 10 years?

Bruce Smith recorded double digit sacks in a Washington uniform and was serviceable for several years. He was by no means a great pickup, but he wasn't awful either.

Brandon Lloyd is the winner for the reasons Schneed discussed.

Asher wasn't that bad. He was decent on some middling Norv Turner teams and actually was a Pro Bowl alternate in 96 I think.

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Plus he was a 5th round pick, not a high-priced pick up. Certainly a blast from the past, but very very very far from the worst pick-up in history.

On a side note, how come all ex-athletes end up selling insurance?

jeffie got a coach fired, displaced a good QB, and forced marty into waiver wire tony banks (and one audible).

Arch was signed to the most money as a saftey in the league coming here and he ruined our secondary..the picks for duckett were BS as he ddint even dress games when coming here..but the faith we put in arch was a joke. stubblefield had potential, even brandon lloyd did.. but arch is jason sehorn 2.0

Brandon Llyod hands down. Cost of draft picks, a ton of cap space, locker room malcontent - just bad from every angle. At least the other players did not have all these factors against them. Also, most of these other players that everyone is talking about at least had descent stats to back up their price tag before they were acquired - Llyod was never good to begin with in the NFL and carried the all too famous "has great potential" tag with him. If you don't believe me go to NFL.com or any NFL stat website and check out his stats - he is a bum and never deserved to be traded for and paid like he was. When you look at acquiring a player one of the things you have to consider is production - which one point I want to add on - picks like Heath Shuler shouldn't be considered the worst deals because teams could only look at his college stats and you can't blame the skins for taking him because he was considered one of the top qb's in the draft that year and the SKins needed a franchise qb and Shule at Tennessee was pretty darn good.

If I remember correctly didn't we give a 1st - 2nd and 3rd round draft pick to the viking for Brad Johnson? Does anyone recall?

I say Duckett purley because we gave up a 3rd round pick for a guy we pretty much knew wouldnt be anymore than a 3rd down back......but he did at least make some plays for us...

I mean...they're all bad lol

You have to remember the circumstances around it. The Skins were a playoff team the year before with high aspirations. Portis gets hurt and we were left with Betts and Cartwright who were both unproven and fumble risks at the time. Duckett was the best available insurance policy. The fact that he didn't play just meant that we didn't need the insurance payout.

I went with other because I can't decide between George and Lloyd. Lloyd definitely contributed less on the field but he's at a position where other players can pick up the slack. During the George years I really felt like we had no playoff chance. He was a fan-killer as well as a team-killer.

You have to remember the circumstances around it. The Skins were a playoff team the year before with high aspirations. Portis gets hurt and we were left with Betts and Cartwright who were both unproven and fumble risks at the time. Duckett was the best available insurance policy. The fact that he didn't play just meant that we didn't need the insurance payout.

Duckett was a pricey insurance policy that we didn't end up having to cash in. Not the best move in hindsight, but I can at least understand the rationale behind the move. Tough to see how that move would top some of these other ones.

If I remember correctly didn't we give a 1st - 2nd and 3rd round draft pick to the viking for Brad Johnson? Does anyone recall?

Yes that was the deal