Rebuilding or Reloading

[Ruhskins]

After the barrage of comments (many of them good comments others pretty bad) about the offered trade for Chad Johnson, I started to think about something...what do we think the Redskins doing as a team, rebuilding or reloading?

Many of us think that the team is one good explosive (offensive) player away from going deep into the playoffs (and some of us homers are saying superbowl...but then again if the Giants can do it...anyway).

However some of you are saying that we should build through the draft, grow some talent, and develop young players. And of course along with the argument is the whole "let's not give our picks away".

So once again I ask, what are we doing, rebuilding or reloading? I honesly don't think a WR receiver at the 21st pick is going to give us that extra push the offense needs, and picking up an OL would only add to depth. These players wouldn't contribute right away, and it would take a year or two to do so. Furthermore, if we were to pick up an defensive lineman (i.e. a Phillip Merling) or a Defensive Back, I think they would initially add to depth.

In regards to our defense, while there have always been needs to fill in this area, I feel that they have been pretty consistent (at least two out of the past three years) and they always seem to bail out the offense (if memory serves me right our inability to score and put the game away contributed some of the losses in close games last season).

So for those of you that feel that we should not trade for an impact offensive player, and advocate for us to build through the draft I ask if you...

a.) feel that Gibbs system held down the offense and we can improve it with our current roster and the Zorn system or...

b.) think we'll get lucky and get a steal at #21 or in the later rounds or...

c.) feel that things may not work out with Zorn and we should rebuild for later years.