Lotus
04-18-2009, 05:48 PM
The past month has been a tumultuous time for the Redskins faithful with the will he/won't he on the Cutler trade, the rumored infatuation with Mark Sanchez and the potential cost of that move and really just a general sense of uneasiness among us all. It was touched on in another thread that the Sanchez trade/draft could be one of the 5 worst moves in Snyder's ownership reign so it seemed like it could spawn 2 threads of their own- so in this one what are your best 5 moves of the Dan Snyder era?
Best 5 (in no particular order)
1. Trading for Clinton Portis. Without revisiting the issue too much, let's just be clear in agreeing that Champ Bailey wasn't coming back. The move for Portis did a few things. It gave us a chance, every time he stepped onto the field, to win the game. He's consistently been a top 10 back each year he's been a Redskin. For better or worse, he's been the face of the franchise and what successes we've had in his 5 years, he's always been at the forefront of.
2. Firing Norv Turner. The timing of it was awful and he cut Norv's legs out from under him the previous offseason, but the writing was clearly on the wall for most of the 90's that Norv was simply over his head as our head coach. His subsequent career has reinforced what we already figured that he is a great offensive coordinator but not a good HC. He's in a great situation now with a HOF RB, great QB, great TE and a solid organization but still has come up short. While his successors have been less than stellar, it's hard to imagine Norv would have found much sustained success with us.
3. Trading for the #3 pick in the '99 draft to pick Chris Samuels. We can go into the wayback machine and look at what could have happened if we had kept the 3 #1 picks we had and who was available and who we could have gotten, but realistically we don't know who we would have drafted or how they would have turned out in our system(s). Samuels has been the rock of our OL and will go down as a Redskins great when his time is up.
4. Hiring Joe Gibbs. This is a mixed bag for me. Gibbs brought back respectability to the franchise after the Spurrier era. He took us to the playoffs twice and brought in some solid young talent with Cooley, Portis, Moss, Landry, S. Taylor and Rogers. His 4 years restored the faith that many of us had lost in 'Redskins football.
5. Buying the Redskins. Look, despite the decade of mediocrity he has done anything he thought would make us a Super Bowl champ. The results have been absent, but you cannot discount the effort. To a man, if any of us had the means, we would probably buy our favorite team as well and do all that we could to field a winner.
What are yours?
I respectfully disagree with the buying the Skins part. The Skins should have stayed in the Jack Kent Cooke family.
1) Gibbs
2) Samuels
3) Cooley
4) London Fletcher
5) Sean Taylor - beginning and end with the team
Best 5 (in no particular order)
1. Trading for Clinton Portis. Without revisiting the issue too much, let's just be clear in agreeing that Champ Bailey wasn't coming back. The move for Portis did a few things. It gave us a chance, every time he stepped onto the field, to win the game. He's consistently been a top 10 back each year he's been a Redskin. For better or worse, he's been the face of the franchise and what successes we've had in his 5 years, he's always been at the forefront of.
2. Firing Norv Turner. The timing of it was awful and he cut Norv's legs out from under him the previous offseason, but the writing was clearly on the wall for most of the 90's that Norv was simply over his head as our head coach. His subsequent career has reinforced what we already figured that he is a great offensive coordinator but not a good HC. He's in a great situation now with a HOF RB, great QB, great TE and a solid organization but still has come up short. While his successors have been less than stellar, it's hard to imagine Norv would have found much sustained success with us.
3. Trading for the #3 pick in the '99 draft to pick Chris Samuels. We can go into the wayback machine and look at what could have happened if we had kept the 3 #1 picks we had and who was available and who we could have gotten, but realistically we don't know who we would have drafted or how they would have turned out in our system(s). Samuels has been the rock of our OL and will go down as a Redskins great when his time is up.
4. Hiring Joe Gibbs. This is a mixed bag for me. Gibbs brought back respectability to the franchise after the Spurrier era. He took us to the playoffs twice and brought in some solid young talent with Cooley, Portis, Moss, Landry, S. Taylor and Rogers. His 4 years restored the faith that many of us had lost in 'Redskins football.
5. Buying the Redskins. Look, despite the decade of mediocrity he has done anything he thought would make us a Super Bowl champ. The results have been absent, but you cannot discount the effort. To a man, if any of us had the means, we would probably buy our favorite team as well and do all that we could to field a winner.
What are yours?
I respectfully disagree with the buying the Skins part. The Skins should have stayed in the Jack Kent Cooke family.
1) Gibbs
2) Samuels
3) Cooley
4) London Fletcher
5) Sean Taylor - beginning and end with the team