You're drawing conclusions and we haven't even seen the end result of that decision Bulldog. If trading our first that year, and two additional firsts was the cost to get Griffin, I'm betting that 10 years from now it looks like the best damn money we ever laid down. You'll never have a better moment to dispute that, and God knows plenty of folks are enjoying that moment. But what it cost to get him was what it cost to get him. Oh - and by the ****ing way, Redskins fans were CLAMORING for that move - in fact, would've burned Shanahan alive had the team not made that move, for decades to come. I happen to think it was the right move. Saying we didn't need to move up to get him, even if true - well, that's just nonsense because you can't know that until after the fact.
Now, having trading the farm to get him, does that delay this team's progress and the ability to build a team around him, maybe even dramatically so? Absolutely. But we knew that when we made the move. It was a calculated risk. You are arguing it was a stupid move. I'm telling you, you have no way of knowing that. If this year proves to be a bump in the road, trial by fire, anomaly kind of a year for Griffin, and he's a future Hall of Famer (which is quite possible), you will have been dead wrong.
The discussion around all of the other stupid moves Shanahan and company have made (pretty much every move they've ever made according to many here) is a separate one. But there's no way you can, with any authority or certainty, call the move to get Griffin a mistake.
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