Re: Burner's Burning Questions: News, Grades, Evals, Questions, Regular Season, 2018
Hindsight armchair GMing doesn't take much courage, or effort either.
I'm waiting for the announcement...............................
Sorry Ax, I don't have to be Ron Wolf or Bobby Beathard to have the eyes to see what this regime has tried to do has failed to produce anything close to excellence.
True a fan or media critic can take any team down for a given decision because everyone makes mistakes at times, but as Bill Parcells said in the end result 'you are your record'.
The Redskins are 6-7 and careening towards a 6-10 finish, which in fact may be the best outcome for this team. A draft pick in the top 10 is desperately needed on a team where draft picks often disappoint or perform at less than expected levels.
Josh Doctson, Su'a Cravens, Preston Smith, Ryan Anderson, the now departed Trent Murphy, Matt Jones, Samaje Perine, etc.
The Redskins have had some severe injury problems the past couple of years but part of that at least early on in the season could be attributable by an appalling lack of depth on the roster.
Jamison Crowder's injury would have been easier to overcome if Josh Doctson had been playing at anything close to the level of a top fight wideout.
Chris Thompson's injuries didn't necessarily have to help derail our offense on the ground if draft picks like Jones or Perine had turned out to be of any real value on an NFL roster.
We run a 3-4 defense and have invested a fortune in outside linebackers: Ryan Kerrigan (#1), Preston Smith (#2), Trent Murphy (#2), Ryan Anderson (#2) and yet we have not been able to find a single edge rusher that can impact a football game the way a 32 year old Michael Bennett can, let alone younger top level performers like Von Miller or Khalil Mack.
In the secondary, we are paying a zone corner Josh Norman $18M for 2018. Think that is money well spent?
The team never thought to replace Orlando Scandrick with another veteran to help provide depth at CB in case Quinton Dunbar or one of the other corners went down during the season.
And what really annoys me is that we paid Scandrick $1M which he collected and then was able to get on the field for the Chiefs for 16 games.
Scandrick may be on the decline, but when Dunbar went down with his heel injury it would have been nice to have a veteran to put out there rather than trying to get Danny Johnson and Greg Stroman acclimated to the NFL trying to cover Amari Cooper or Alshon Jeffery.
Well, I defer to Portis. He was always the smartest player on the field
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