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Originally Posted by TheMalcolmConnection
There's nothing wrong with that, what I'm saying is what's wrong with OURS? Why not get both Lloyd and Randle El? We still have money leftover. If there's anything the Skins know how to do, it's stretch cap space. You'd think that if whoever the GM was KNEW that Portis, Springs and Pierson would go down, they would have gone out and GOTTEN the aforementioned quality depth.
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Would the GM know that these exact players you mentioned got hurt - no but I would hope a prudent GM would know that injuries are part of the game and therefore they should try to get as many good players as the the 51 man roster will allow. By focusing on the 22 starters yes you may win the offseason championshiop as our Redskins seem to do, but when the inevitable happens and some of your players get hurt you need to have someone to go in and pick up the slack. The Redskins do this somewhat in my opinon: I give an round of applause for the Todd Wade signing as ths was a great pickup for depth as you can't expect all 5 linemand to go through the season injury free. I also love the resigning of Betts as I think that a running back has a much higher chance to have some injuries - especially if the Redskins go with their smashmouth, run first identity. When Portis carried the ball as much as he did the first two years there had to be at least a discussion that he may be getting a little too much wear and tear.
But I hope the Skins FO changes their collective mindset and accepts the fact that injuries can happen - even to your star players as you listed above and therefore they should put a little more focus on the backups.
Other teams have had their star players go down too - for example when the Eagles FO meet in the offseason they probably asked a question along these lines "Do you think the one of our best players by the name of McNabb has a tendency to scramble a lot and therefore his chances of getting hurt are higher". The collective answer was most likely yes so what do they do - the sign a quality backup in Jeff Garcia and when Mcnabb goes down theie season is not lost and they still have a chance to get in the playoffs. They wqere able to get Garcia because of the availble cap space.
Is any team going to able to find quality backup starters for every position - no way in my opinion. But the goal should be to get as many contingency starters/backups as you can and if that means forgoing not signing all the top level free agents to have the cap space to me that seems the more prudent thing to do.