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Originally Posted by Beemnseven
Let's see...
- Giving up a 3rd round draft choice for Mark Brunell who was going to be cut by Jacksonville anyway...
- Giving up Champ Bailey AND a 2nd round choice for Clinton Portis...
- Giving up a 3rd and 4th round draft choice, plus a $10 million bonus for Brandon Lloyd who won't come anywhere near his career averages for catches...
- Giving Randle El a $10 million signing bonus when we already had 3 capable kick returners in Thrash, Betts, and Cartwright...
- Giving up a 3rd round choice for T.J. Duckett who won't get more than 50 carries for the season...
- Trading up in the '06 draft for Rocky McIntosh, losing next year's 2nd round choice when he can't even unseat Warrick Holdman or any other of the incompetent buffoons we have playing on defense...
- Adam Archuleta -- do we need an explanation about him?
- The defense is old, needs to be completely overhauled and gutted, and we haven't nearly enough draft picks next year to address a third of the needs on that side of the field.
If Joe Gibbs 'the GM' cannot see what sort of a wreck this team's personnel shape is in, then perhaps we have overestimated him. |
Just to address these specifically.
-I think, just speculation, the reason they traded for Brunell instead of waiting for him to be released was to get him to camp before June
-I didn't and still don't have a problem overall with this deal
-El and Lloyd: I like that we went after two receivers, though I don't know these are the two we needed to go after. I think El is on a higher level overall than Thrash, Betts, or Cartwright, but-while I like Lloyd-I would have preferred a Jurevicius to counter what El and Moss bring to the table. As far as the money portion of it, I don't know how much say Gibbs has over that part of it really.
-The Duckett move still baffles me, especially with news that Betts will most likely be returning next year
-Philosophically I don't have a problem with the move-getting a player now and sitting him on the bench for a year. I don't think a draft pick needs to play right away. I think the mistake was in who they acquired. I would have rather they went after a lineman like a Winston Justice or a Marcus McNeill (again, realizing they wouldn't play in 2006).
-I just don't know what to say about the Archuleta fiasco...sigh