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The Packers were horrible last year without Aaron Rodgers and with him hurting this year they are 5-7-1.
The Eagles are nowhere near where they were last year and while part of that is injuries to the secondary the primary reason is that Carson Wentz is still not back to being the player he was when he got hurt at 13-2 last year.
So, I agree that without your #1 quarterback most teams in the NFL are 'toast' so to speak.
Nick Foles did a great job in the playoffs but does anyone realistically think the Eagles are 13-3 and the #1 seed with Foles playing 16 games?
The problem for the Redskins is we have injured quarterbacks AND there is a chance that Alex Smith never comes back again to play for the team while we still have to count $23M against our cap for the next 2 years through 2020.
Of course you can also say that even if healthy neither Smith nor McCoy are players you build a team around.
What the Redskins have to do now is what they have been loathe to do in the past, namely draft a quarterback and develop him into a starter.
Take the time to surround him with younger players that are growing as he is growing so that you end up with guys that are in their primes TOGETHER at a key point in the future.
THAT is what allows you to contend for championship.
And by being patient that DOESN'T mean trading three #1 picks to move up in the draft to get the #1 pick.
In 2012 the consensus was that there were two blue chip prospects on the board at qb, Andrew Luck and RG III.
But what was supposed to turn into a very shallow draft class in 2012 showed later there was some additional depth in Russell Wilson and Kirk Cousins, both of whom turned into better NFL quarterbacks than RGIII.
Both have been a lot healthier than Andrew Luck as well. Wilson has taken the Seahawks to 2 Super Bowls.
And you can go back in the past couple of drafts and find guys that were drafted fairly high but not in the top 3-5 picks that turned into franchise performers.
Patrick Mahomes was #1 1, DeShaun Watson was what #1 6?
So, there are ways to succeed and build a contending team without having to mortgage the team's entire future to do so.
But it takes a good GM to find the right deal or the right player to pick at a certain spot.
The Redskins have not had that since Snyder has been here and I would argue they have not had that since 1992.
Couldn't agree more with that Bulldog. And that is why we are ****ed and also why firing Gruden alone is highly unlikely to make a damn bit of difference. Bruce Allen couldn't draft a future star QB if you held a gun to his head and gave him top ten picks 5 years in a row. That's why if they start over, it has to be a complete top to bottom blow up, hiring the best GM you can find, and then getting out of his way. Anything else is just more of the same.