Ax
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Armchair GM's are some of the most entertaining people.
Shame they waste their talents in other occupations.
Shame they waste their talents in other occupations.
Or we could have signed one of the 3 guards out there who were better and younger than him, instead of re-signing him.
Bulldog was correct, Troy Apke was a wasted 4th round pick, epsecially when he was slated to go in the 5th or 6th round...we spent a 4th that could have gone toward a young OG/C. Just because we took Christian in the 3rd, didn't mean we couldn't taken an OG/C in the 4th. It was a position of need for depth, desperate need.
Hey Ax, don't forget that Pat Riley used to be on the Lakers' radio broadcast with Chick Hearn and talked about making changes for the team to move forward from Paul Westhead.
The owner Buss heard his comments and they offered him the head coaching job.
He went on to win 4 rings.
Now he was a former NBA player not just a guy eating a bag of Cheetos watching the team in his man cave but his hire was originally lampooned by many in the NBA.
You can also look at baseball 29 year old GMs like Cashman and Epstein that won big with analytics while being crushed by veteran managers like Dusty Baker that managed from the hip.
The Redskins have done nothing in recent years to think there aren't ways to improve and some of those improvements come in areas where the team seems to have an organizational blind spot.
I was kind of thinking the same thing last night.
How many times do we see an injury ravaged team play beyond it's potential... Or is that just against the Redskins...
Case in point the Falcons who were supposed to be beat up and easy pickings for our D
I've already conceded going with Lauvao was a risk. Now you need to concede that an ACL tear is the result of a violent hit - and has zero to do with how 'injury prone' someone is (unless one has had a previous tear) No matter what decisions a team makes, there are risks involved. Based on what we know about this year, they should've drafted nothing but OL, WR, and RB - right? Problem is, we don't have a crystal ball. But yeah, we need more OL depth.
As for Christian and Apke - you guys can pretend to know what we have there and that those were terrible picks, but it's way too early to make those kinds of determinations imho.
I'm sure if someone eventually signs him, and he scores a TD, you'll be the first one doing an endzone dance proclaiming again to be the smartest armchair GM on the planet.
It's why we love you!
Anyone know the latest on Quinn ?
Is he coming back this week, and possibly playing against the Bucs ?
You're being disingenuous. It is whom we drafted that is the problem. I have no idea what Troy Apke offers this team in the future, but we reached with that pick, and could have done better. But oooooh! He's fast!
As for the other positions, you're misrepresenting what I've said. I did not want to see another WR drafted, I think I was rather clear I wanted a veteran presence at WR. You know that. We have some talent out wide, but not enough to think another rookie would have been the answer. So we sign an oft injured Paul Richardson. There was much better out there.
Same for the RB position, it took some time...but I was all on board with the Guice pick with the trade to end up with the player we likely wanted all along. However, we were so deplete with talent at that position, again...I wanted a veteran RB to go with the young talent. And you know who I thought would have been a great acquisition when the market opened up, at a good price. He is not a super star, but he is a very good RB in this league. And please don't suggest he was less than he was because Cleveland traded him to Jax..they were stacked at that position so they got some value since they wanted to let Chubb take over. We lucked out and got Petesron, but he or another veteran FA should have been brought in. Fat Rob, Samaje, and even Bibbs are not the answer.
We had a less talented team last year, and finished .500 down the stretch with walk-on's filling critical holes. If we can manage that this year we finish the season 9-7. You can argue that will be enough to win the NFC East. .
The Redskins are not a juggernaut team but the next 4 games against Atlanta, Houston, Tampa Bay and Dallas is not exactly murderer's row
These teams can and have been beaten in 2018. Right now, only one has a winning record.
So you didn't want us to draft an 'oft-injured' Richardson, but were fine with us drafting a 'just-injured' Allen Robinson? I hear you on the line depth, I don't really disagree with you on that point. As far as RB goes, what has 'what's his name' done this year? I'm asking seriously because I'm too lazy to look it up. But I'm guessing the answer is 'nothing impressive' ...
But there's a difference between sending a troubled player to the Patriots, where Brady and Belichick don't tolerate BS and sending him here,where discipline isn't exactly the Redskins forte'......Elephant - when Hyde was in Cleveland he had a 3.4 yards per carry average.
I don't see how that was worth trading for. Hyde is 28. He is what he is as a runner, there is no upside there from here.
The Patriots were smart. They got a productive WR in Gordon and they got him for nothing to fill one of their definite need areas.
Gordon and a #7 went to Cleveland for a #5 .
So, in essence Belichick traded a #6 pick for a guy who is already making a difference.
Bruce and Co. are so afraid of making a mistake now they don't want to take any real risks.
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