NC_Skins
11-28-2012, 09:58 AM
I never understood this trade. It smells of Vinny Cerrato.
Yeah gotta agree, bad move by Shanny and the FO. The early Shanny moves of JB and Donavan didnt work out, but oh well at this point. The team is playing better without both and have moved on.
The actual trade wasn't the bad move made by the FO at the time. The bad move was when they resigned him in the previous off-season KNOWING he was a injury liability, and then counted on him with no solid backup (polumbus) plan in place. Skinsfan, this doesn't smell of Vinny one bit. Not even close.
Chico23231
11-28-2012, 10:02 AM
3rd round pick for a player coming off major injury? Yeah that's a pretty bad gamble imo and then to pay him? 2 extremely poor decisions. But oh well at this point, we obviously moved on.
It's easy to say from the outside that it was a bad decision, and in hindsight too of course. Obviously the team doctors would have reviewed all of his medicals and determined his medical risk was worth the shot. Plenty of guys come back from injury to regain their form.
Chico23231
11-28-2012, 10:10 AM
Its a gamble either way. That 3rd round pick coulda been a developed Right Tackle by now, but you cant win them all.
NC_Skins
11-28-2012, 10:11 AM
3rd round pick for a player coming off major injury? Yeah that's a pretty bad gamble imo and then to pay him? 2 extremely poor decisions. But oh well at this point, we obviously moved on.
The trade was indeed a gamble, but had he stayed healthy and performed at a high level, he would be lauded as a genius. You guys are only saying so due to hindsight.
That said, this is why you don't follow one mistake with another. Once the got injured while here on the Skins, Mike should have corrected the mistake and moved onto something else. Nope, he followed a mistake with another mistake of resigning him. You can forgive one mistake, but making two mistakes with the same person. Not so much.
That 3rd rounder could be a bust right now too. Shoulda, coulda, woulda.
Lotus
11-28-2012, 10:25 AM
It's easy to say from the outside that it was a bad decision, and in hindsight too of course. Obviously the team doctors would have reviewed all of his medicals and determined his medical risk was worth the shot. Plenty of guys come back from injury to regain their form.
Yup. Other teams, including the Saints, thought he would return to form. And if he had returned to form, we would have one heck of an OL right now.
There are lots of hindsight arguments in this thread.
SmootSmack
11-28-2012, 10:48 AM
Saints ended up drafting Martez Wilson with the pick we sent them
CRedskinsRule
11-28-2012, 11:05 AM
From #72 to #79 (where we picked with a trade from Miami)
73 New England Patriots Stevan Ridley RB
74 New England Patriots Ryan Mallett QB
75 Seattle Seahawks John Moffitt G
76 Jacksonville Jaguars Will Rackley G
77 Tennessee Titans Jurrell Casey DT
78 St. Louis Rams Austin Pettis WR
OMG We Coulda Had Steven RIDLEY!!!
(we took Hankerson at 79)
What a bum trade! [/sarcasm]
REDSKINS4ever
11-28-2012, 11:14 AM
The hell with it. It's time to move on and it's time for the Redskins to give Jammal Brown a injury settlement and cut their ties with him. Great player, but he was a player who has landed on IR the last three years. I don't even think Vinny Cerrato would have made this trade for him. But Cerratto was dumb enough to draft Malcolm Kelly after team physicians advised him not to.