What's Wrong with the Redskins?

What's Wrong with the Redskins?

I'll drop the Science 101 stylie:

These are quotes free to all

"Its like cooking we put a chicken in the oven, get impatient and start to eat it but its not fully cooked and we get sick or we get impatient when its ready and bite into it and it burns our mouth."

"You have to let the paint dry." Stop "painting" the team with new coordinators every year. Were exhausting our players not buildinng towards a goal.

We have to be acknowledge that every cause has an effect. We have led ourselves down this road with poor Mgt. decisions. We've gotten players and missed out on getting future players in the market b/c of terrible contracts.

"Winning teams have guys to fit their system. " Our guys just do their job. This team runs just not properly.

I send emails that go unnocticed to the Redskins annually. I build a Madden dynasty every season and we win. Bring me in to console with Mgt Bi$*%es. Ohh, I just found my new closing for next years email.

Not Campbell I'm talking about in general. How many Campbells have we drafted? Outside of Landry and Sean not many of our draft choices pan out. If so we'd be as deep as the Patriots,Colts and other teams with many home grown starters not free agents.

We've drafted guys like Ladell Betts, Rock Cartright, Jason Campbell, Chris Cooley, Derrick Dockery, Rocky McIntosh, Carlos Rogers, Sean Taylor, Laron Landry, Chris Horton, Kedric Golston and Anthony Montgomery and found numerous UFA gems. Now, Chris Horton might not be Sean Taylor, but he's a damn good pickup for a 7th rounder. We haven't had a lot of draft picks to work with, but the guys we've drafted have been pretty solid. To expect a team to draft gem after gem isn't very realistic.

BDB, good points. again not picking so hope you didn't feel offended. With higher expectations I think any team is a SB contender, However I don't think the Skins are there. When a team hits the ...5 in a row or we won't go mark....they are not SB material. Do they get the ada boy for trying yes. The ada boy is being allowed to play in the play offs. Twice we have seen where that leads us. 1st round and your down. LOL.

Hell they make it to the SB then call me a chicken s#$! if you want but this team has to many problems to be a SB team. Funny how all this O-line issues seemed to happen around the time Buges had family issues. They started stinking up the joint when he left and when he came back it hasn't changed. It's like they forgot how to block or forgot their fundamentals. I'm not sure why the coincidence of timing but about the time Buges left this O-line has been on a downward spiral. Issues all over the place. I can't speak for the D-line. It had it's issues and we all knew them. but the D kept us in games.

Funny how teams are either offensive teams or defensive teams. For years now we have been a defensive team with out a pass rush. Top 5-10 every year. Offense has been obismal. Look at how the trend is going...Colts offensive team, Patriots offensive team, Giants more of an offensive team, If you can match your opponents score or beat it you win. doesn't matter if the score is 50ish to 40ish. Then you look at the defensive teams like the Steelers, Ravens, Packers, and although they are good they lose to teams that can find a way to put up the points.

We've drafted guys like Ladell Betts, Rock Cartright, Jason Campbell, Chris Cooley, Derrick Dockery, Rocky McIntosh, Carlos Rogers, Sean Taylor, Laron Landry, Chris Horton, Kedric Golston and Anthony Montgomery and found numerous UFA gems. Now, Chris Horton might not be Sean Taylor, but he's a damn good pickup for a 7th rounder. We haven't had a lot of draft picks to work with, but the guys we've drafted have been pretty solid. To expect a team to draft gem after gem isn't very realistic.

Okay Betts and Cartright I'll give you those. Mediocre but I'll still give you props there. Chris Cooley actually should have went in my stud list along with Landry and Taylor. I actually like horton. He's a ball hawk.BUt its all about perception.Perception is that we trade all our picks away. Reality is that we only became a fair draft team for about 3 years. But we are middle on board at best when it comes to draft day.

Okay Betts and Cartright I'll give you those. Mediocre but I'll still give you props there. Chris Cooley actually should have went in my stud list along with Landry and Taylor. I actually like horton. He's a ball hawk.BUt its all about perception.Perception is that we trade all our picks away. Reality is that we only became a fair draft team for about 3 years. But we are middle on board at best when it comes to draft day.

Also keep in mind not every draft pick is going to be a winner. Then add the fact that instead of filling the one or two glaring holes we had on the team by "drafting for need" the team management chose to go the "best overall player" route and we ended up with a TE we truely didn't need, a Punter we truely didn't need and if we did, why couldn't they make the punter work? all he has to do is stand back there and grab the ball out of the air and take two steps and punt. Instead it seems we have no one out on the edge to stop the rush. Everytime we punt I cringe waiting for the blocked punt. Their close everytime. Then watch us on punt returns and you will see not one man even gets close to the opposing punter. Why? what are we doing differently or wrong. Why is it that everytime ARE stands back to punt return he has a man in his face and has to down the ball? Other teams are pushing the ball up field. back to my soap box...we picked up a QB we really didn't need. or maybe we did. We all knew what we needed out of the draft...1 or 2 DT's who were young, healthy and could collapse a pocket. A bigger DE. We have a smaller speedier DE in Carter, what we needed was the power rushing DE on the other side. O-line anywere. Just a young healthy warm body. Heyer is good for what he was ...a non drafted o-lineman. He's a nice fill in when needed but he's not a stand out or a difference maker. and last but not least we needed WR and S. We drafted for those positions.

We're not playing very well. :cool-smil

We've drafted guys like Ladell Betts, Rock Cartright, Jason Campbell, Chris Cooley, Derrick Dockery, Rocky McIntosh, Carlos Rogers, Sean Taylor, Laron Landry, Chris Horton, Kedric Golston and Anthony Montgomery and found numerous UFA gems. Now, Chris Horton might not be Sean Taylor, but he's a damn good pickup for a 7th rounder. We haven't had a lot of draft picks to work with, but the guys we've drafted have been pretty solid. To expect a team to draft gem after gem isn't very realistic.

IMO overall our drafts have been pretty week. Sean Taylor was a no brainer at the pick we got him at. Same with Samuels. But how many top picks have we wasted going for the 'sexy' pick. Falling in love with the next offensive weapon that doesn't pan out instead of going with the safe pick to build our team. How many great wide recievers have we drafted over the years with our top picks that didn't pan out. Yes we have hit on some later round picks, but we have missed on way too many of our 1st thru 3rd round picks. These are the guys that most teams build around.

IMO overall our drafts have been pretty week. Sean Taylor was a no brainer at the pick we got him at. Same with Samuels. But how many top picks have we wasted going for the 'sexy' pick. Falling in love with the next offensive weapon that doesn't pan out instead of going with the safe pick to build our team. How many great wide recievers have we drafted over the years with our top picks that didn't pan out. Yes we have hit on some later round picks, but we have missed on way too many of our 1st thru 3rd round picks. These are the guys that most teams build around.

Well, I'm not counting this year because it's too early to pass judgement. So with that caveat, I think we've drafted a wide receiver in the first 3 rounds once in the past 13 years

IMO overall our drafts have been pretty week. Sean Taylor was a no brainer at the pick we got him at. Same with Samuels. But how many top picks have we wasted going for the 'sexy' pick. Falling in love with the next offensive weapon that doesn't pan out instead of going with the safe pick to build our team. How many great wide recievers have we drafted over the years with our top picks that didn't pan out. Yes we have hit on some later round picks, but we have missed on way too many of our 1st thru 3rd round picks. These are the guys that most teams build around.The last Redskins first round pick that wasn't a borderline pro-bowler or better was Patrick Ramsey in 2002. And he was the last pick in the round. Since that was seven years ago, I'd say the point is bunk that we haven't drafted well at the top of drafts. It's more that we...haven't had picks to get good players with.

And if somebody wanted to make the argument that Ramsey would have been a pro bowler in 2005 had he been the starter, I'd hear it. Before Ramsey, it was Rod Gardner, and now were really dating ourselves.

Well, I'm not counting this year because it's too early to pass judgement. So with that caveat, I think we've drafted a wide receiver in the first 3 rounds once in the past 13 years

I agree it is still too early to pass judgement for this year, but it is not looking good and IMO we shouldn't have used all 3 picks on receivers with so many other needs.

Westbrook (1995) and Gardner (2001) and of course Howard just before that. You would think after these 3 we would have learned a lesson. Then we have the QBs (Shuler, Ramsey and Campbell) that 2 were busts and the jury is still out on Campbell. Compare these to the defense players and offensive line guys we took that have all pretty much panned out and you get my point.