Skins Sign O-Lineman Mike Williams

CRedskinsRule

yes I do, even though I may not agree with every pick. Imagine that.

It's been said many times, many ways - your examples are old, (except JT, and nearly everyone on the board at the time at least understood the move, it was not the same as AA, but we did pay too much). The FO has filled 3 of 4 areas of need very effectively (GTripp I am not counting Hall). LB -good prospects (especially if Wilson can switch to SLB at all), DL - bowing to GTripp again, assuming the scheme and players are used well, the FO has acquired what would appear to be top notch talent that should be here for 3-6 years. Yes the OL is a need, the offseason is not over, but Dockery was a passible start. STs - I love Hunter, and the late rounders all "look" to be aggressive, and maybe one will be a standout.

Um context is good, we drafted Offense last year, so rather than throwing out last year's 3rd round prospect for the 5th rounder you apparently have so much faith in, they are going to keep developing our guys (isn't this called building through the draft? or are all late rounders supposed to be starters in the 2nd year? I must have missed that lesson)
we have found Superman13732's green kryptonite, it is JC, it causes him to go weak in his arguments
and his red kryptonite is the FO, who knows how that will affect him each time.
There is a cure for this kryptonite though. Knowledge, and lack of impatience, and perhaps Superman CAN Return!!!

Beemnseven

Only the losers of the NFL preach patience.

Ask Robert Kraft, Bill Belichick, or Mike Tomlin how patient they expect their fans to be. How about Bill Polian? Does anyone think his success in Buffalo, Carolina, or Indianapolis was based on sitting through years and years of 8-8 seasons asking everyone to be "patient" ??

No. This league is about winning, and winning right F'ing now. We've had 10 years under this regime. They're good at building mediocrity. They're good at developing teams to win 6 to 9 games a year -- maybe 10 games if everything falls right into place.

The league is designed to make winners out of anybody, and for anybody to do it in relatively short fashion.

If you can't get it done in ten years with the same people running the show, it's not going to get done.

SmootSmack

But we haven't necessarily had the same people running the show

2000-Snyder
2001-Marty
2002-2003-Spurrier
2004-2007-Gibbs
2008-Present-Cerrato

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Lotus

As SS pointed out, the only one we've had for 10 years is Danny Boy, and we likely are stuck with him for another 25 years.

If you look at the successes of Polian and Belichick, one ingredient they have is stability. They don't panic and impatiently change things.

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Lotus

We've talked about this before. 5 years ago JC was a junior at Auburn. Please re-adjust your time line.

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T.O.Killa

This guy is 410 pounds and out of the league for 3 years. I figured he sustained an injury and was now ready to play. I thought why in hell would the Redskins take this on. Then I read that he lives with Dockery and his wife and thought to myself that maybe, this was part of Dockery signing here. What do you guys think. Just makes no sense.

Lotus

Your "experience tab" means that he is going into his 5th year.

Let's do math: It is now April 2009. 5 years ago was April 2004.

JC was drafted in April 2005.

Therefore, in April 2004 or 5 years ago, JC was junior at Auburn.

But I'll tell you what: In order to have 5 NFL years under his belt, JC would have had to play the 2004 season. Find me his NFL stats from 2004 and I'll change my mind. If you cannot find those stats then please change your time line.

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Beemnseven

Fine. I'll subtract the 8-8 season under Marty.

Steve Spurrier was hardly running the show during 2002-03. Under Gibbs, Cerrato was still player personnel director, and Lil' Danny held the purse strings.

Either way you slice it, Lil' Danny has been here for the last ten years doing the hiring. In any business, the one who's doing the hiring is the one who gets the blame. And he's got a 68-76 record to show for it.

You know and I know those numbers show he's not getting it done.

Lotus

Fine. Danny has been in charge for 10 years, that is true. So, if you don't want to be patient, what are you going to change? Trade Danny? As much as I'd like to, that's not realistic.

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Lotus

I see you already got it. The number you are looking for is four years, not 5 as you previously stated.

Further, JC rode the bench as a rookie. You're really going to criticize him for not producing then?

The fact is that JC has only about 1 3/4 years experience as a starter. When it comes to being patient with JC, that is the number which needs to be discussed. Not 5 years for sure, not even 4 years, but 1 3/4 years.

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cobracai1

I love how we only talk about the mess ups of the FO. How about the Santana Moss trade? How about Griffen, Springs, and Daniels signings. I will not bore everone on the board with this discussion any longer but I think that to say things like our FO is stupid or retarded just doesn't really hold water with me. They have areas where they can improve. You cant just compare us to Indy, Pitt, and New England every time. These are elite franchises with years of stability in coaching and systems. If we stay the course we could eventually get there. I actually am happy with our offseason. We have gotten younger at a lot of positions and have upgraded both our offensive and defensive lines (and we aren't done yet). And our O-line shoudl be better just with the improvement of the guys already there. Lets have some faith.

HTTR

Beemnseven

I actually have sympathy for this point of view: There's no point in bitching about ownership because it's not going to change. That's the one argument from the Front Office Defenders that I can respect. I get that.

It is beyond me though, that there is still a contingent of fans that act as loyal pawns of this regime. So quick to roll their eyes at anyone who makes a legitimate argument against the front office. "I guess it's more fun to bash the F.O." they'll say...

Win some games, and that will change.

Winners don't tolerate a 7-9 season average over ten years. Losers do.

Beemnseven

Dude, how about 68-76 over ten years? How about 22-26 over the last three seasons?

Faith is believing in something you know ain't true.