Week 15: Redskins vs Cowboys Gameday thread

[Beemnseven]

Originally Posted by SirClintonPortis

It doesn't make sense to trade away picks for anything short term with regards to a rebuild. You're looking for long term gems when rebuilding and you build around those guys. You make trades for vets after establishing a solid core of guys to build around, like the Jets and Baltimore did.

Originally Posted by Ruhskins

Not when you're giving up two draft picks. Yes a veteran would have been great, but we had to gamble and give up draft picks that we could have used to address other issues while rebuilding.

I don't like trading away picks any more than the next guy, but I don't fault the idea of bringing in a veteran, pro bowl-type QB who a solid majority figured could play for a good three more seasons.

It's not written in stone that you rebuild with unproven rookies at all 22 positions.

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by Beemnseven

I don't like trading away picks any more than the next guy, but I don't fault the idea of bringing in a veteran, pro bowl-type QB who a solid majority figured could play for a good three more seasons.

It's not written in stone that you rebuild with unproven rookies at all 22 positions.

Still, our team is up the sh*t creek because and our coach gambled two picks on a QB that has gotten benched twice this season.

[Beemnseven]

Originally Posted by Ruhskins

Still, our team is up the sh*t creek because and our coach gambled two picks on a QB that has gotten benched twice this season.

But was it a gamble worth taking? That's the question. Only now, with the benefit of hindsight do we know the answer.

If McNabb lights it up, plays in Hawaii for a year or two, and guides an infusion of young guys through the rebuilding process on the way to a playoff appearance here and there, the two draft picks you expended don't look so bad. Hell, if he turns in a performance a knotch or two below that it would have been worth the price.

Needless to say, McNabb didn't have anything close to that left in the tank, and Shanahan overestimated him, like many, many others.

I don't like the end result by any means but I'm not going to put Shanahan in front of the firing squad for it either.

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by Beemnseven

But was it a gamble worth taking? That's the question. Only now, with the benefit of hindsight do we know the answer.

If McNabb lights it up, plays in Hawaii for a year or two, and guides an infusion of young guys through the rebuilding process on the way to a playoff appearance here and there, the two draft picks you expended don't look so bad. Hell, if he turns in a performance a knotch or two below that it would have been worth the price.

Needless to say, McNabb didn't have anything close to that left in the tank, and Shanahan overestimated him, like many, many others.

I don't like the end result by any means but I'm not going to put Shanahan in front of the firing squad for it either.

Great, glad you think it was worth the gamble. When MS brought McNabb, my first thoughts were, great he wants to win right away, I'm sure some people thought the same way.

[SirClintonPortis]

Originally Posted by Beemnseven

But was it a gamble worth taking? That's the question. Only now, with the benefit of hindsight do we know the answer.

If McNabb lights it up, plays in Hawaii for a year or two, and guides an infusion of young guys through the rebuilding process on the way to a playoff appearance here and there, the two draft picks you expended don't look so bad. Hell, if he turns in a performance a knotch or two below that it would have been worth the price.

Needless to say, McNabb didn't have anything close to that left in the tank, and Shanahan overestimated him, like many, many others.

I don't like the end result by any means but I'm not going to put Shanahan in front of the firing squad for it either.

Horrid short and intermediate game, mobility on the decline, inflated stats thanks to DeSean Jackson, the signs were there. Hell, my optimism for him was only because I thought we were going to have the ZBS working right away, not because he was a Brady. Tripp saw it coming.