Snyder Showing Improvement b/c of Gibbs?

...ON a side note, look back at the famous Ricky Williams Ditka deal w/NO. We got a slew of picks but other than Champ (and Jansen?), that draft didn't turn the team around. In Snyder's first few years he kept all of his picks if memory serves me. Maybe after that, he felt the draft wasn't the way to build.
The Skins were wheeling and dealing picks back then as well. Yes, we got the motherlode for Ricky Williams, while still geting the player we wanted to select at the top (Champ Bailey). However, we also dealt our own first (#11 overall), our 3rd, and our 2000 2nd round pick to acquire Brad Johnson after allowing Trent Green to depart via free agency. I've often wondered what might have happened had we re-signed Green, and kept our own picks on top of the boatload Ditka gave us.

One final trivia note - Minnesota selected Daunte Culpepper with the 11th pick in that draft.

The Skins were wheeling and dealing picks back then as well. Yes, we got the motherlode for Ricky Williams, while still geting the player we wanted to select at the top (Champ Bailey). However, we also dealt our own first (#11 overall), our 3rd, and our 2000 2nd round pick to acquire Brad Johnson after allowing Trent Green to depart via free agency. I've often wondered what might have happened had we re-signed Green, and kept our own picks on top of the boatload Ditka gave us.

One final trivia note - Minnesota selected Daunte Culpepper with the 11th pick in that draft.

yeah, several people here said the same about Green. I remember somebody put up a thread asking which ex skin was missed the most. I agree that Green could've been the franchise qb, but he left for a few reasons, he got to go home to Mizz. & play for St. Louis, and the ownership situation was in limbo here.

Gibbs is sucessfull in everything he does! And Danny boy is learning.

yeah, several people here said the same about Green. I remember somebody put up a thread asking which ex skin was missed the most. I agree that Green could've been the franchise qb, but he left for a few reasons, he got to go home to Mizz. & play for St. Louis, and the ownership situation was in limbo here.
If I'm correct the team at the time did not have an owner and no one could have even worked his deal until someone purchased the team.

I think time itself has changed him. He realizes some of the mistakes he made in firing coaches and hiring high profile names in the past.

Anyways, f... peter king

IMO Peter King has zero credibility and will always have zero credibility...thanks to him we get Irvin in the hall while Monk has to sit around a suck it...

Good Danny will be a future Hall of famer GM if we can have a more better winning franchise team.

when we start winning games. keeping our draft picks every year then i will believe.

From MMQB by Peter King:

Meanwhile, I talked to Strahan on Saturday night and got no indication which way he was leaning. Human nature would say he can't make $4 million in four months anywhere but on the football field this fall, but I'm not sure this is a very normal situation. My guess is he'll play, but my personal preference would be to see him traded to a team that would pay him. Three years ago, this would have been a job for Dan Snyder, but working with Joe Gibbs has transformed Snyder into some sort of Fred MacMurray type from My Three Sons. You know, Mr. Responsible. This doesn't seem like a Redskins move now.


This got me thinking that maybe, if we don't go on to win a superbowl in Gibbs 2.0, that at least we could point to the maturation of Snyder as a kind of success under Gibbs. Winning a superbowl would be great but having Snyder actually adjust his spend first, ask questions later mentality might be more important to the health of the franchise, long term.

I think you're grasping at straws in Gibbs behalf. Gibbs has been an embarrassing failure here so far. He has made horrible personnel decisions here and doesn't seem to know what to do now.

Serenity Now!