What could have been...

Yeah, this topic is KINDA pointless -- but not totally.

The reason I say that is because it helps to go back to look at your mistakes, and what led you to make them, and what you could have done differently to maximize the opportunity.

In the case of our recent aquisitions, I think the lesson to learn is that rookies are not useless -- even for winning NOW. We have traded away our picks for (somewhat) proven talent, and the reasoning is: we want to win NOW. That implies that we don't have much faith in winning NOW with draft picks, and that we have to get veteran players to win NOW. I believe that is the mistake we have made recently, and I hope we can learn to use draft picks AND win now AND in the future.

This draft pick trading for us is nothing new...and has always had good results. The media loves to find reasons to criticize us and this is just another way to do it.

Good results? When? You mean with Bobby Beathard calling the personnel shots? If that's the era you're talking about, OK, but I don't see how anyone can say the strategy we've seen under Snyder/Cerrato/Gibbs is working.

Just take a look at the team's record since Snyder owned the team. And don't count the '99 season, because that was Charley Casserly's roster.

Just take a look at the team's record since Snyder owned the team. And don't count the '99 season, because that was Charley Casserly's roster.

Hey! Football isn't judged on logic and numbers. Snyder is a great owner and does everything he can to help this team win. He wants to win soooo badly. And he's a genius because he brought back Coach Gibbs. It doesn't matter that Gibbs is 18-21 in two and a half seasons. SNydEr iz dA MaaaNNnn!!

this is a ridiculous thread

this is a ridiculous thread

I agree. Oh how I want to hijack this...but I won't. Now we'll just have to wonder what could have been had I hijacked this

If 'ifs and buts' were candy and nuts, what a fine holiday feast we would have.