Brown opts to go to Denver

I agree with Drift Reality. I'd rather not have Brown. He would our next "Bid Dqaddy" or Dana Stubblefield. He would come in with a lot of hype and then do nothing.

The big difference is he wasn't going to get paid like Big Daddy and his salary was going to be contingent on his performance. So, if he'd turned out to be a bust we'd have lost little more than a roster spot. If he turned out to be a Pro-Bowler, presumably he'd get paid like it.

Damn, no need to get hostile people. Personally I am glad that we are having a crappy offseason. Maybe we will actually start adding some youth to our squad with Joe Gibbs and cast influence right out of the gate. To be honest, I hope that we have a crappy preseason too. The majority of our good seasons started with a crappy preseason. We may not have a second round pick, but look at what we drafted last year and when we drafted them. Not too shabby. Chris Cooley is gonna be a beast!

This offseason has been one big kick in the nutz. Not that Brown is going to turn into a hall of famer, but he would have helped us at a weak position. The skins have come up empty at every turn so far this offseason...

This offseason has been one big kick in the nutz. Not that Brown is going to turn into a hall of famer, but he would have helped us at a weak position. The skins have come up empty at every turn so far this offseason...

Stop being so damn pesimistic! I will take afraid of change for 200 Alex!

there still hasn't been an official announcement, this is another way teams use puffery to get what they want until it becomes official, I will not say anything.

It would have been nice to have him, but it's not going to make or break our season that's for sure.

We managed 40 sacks last year without a true pass rusher, and with the return of Daniels and Arrington we should still be able to bring enough heat.

WE DO NOT HAVE A SECOND ROUND PICK!!!!!

Easy friend. I don't see the word "round" anywhere in his message.

It would have been nice to have him, but it's not going to make or break our season that's for sure.

We managed 40 sacks last year without a true pass rusher, and with the return of Daniels and Arrington we should still be able to bring enough heat.

and bowen, and clemons for the full year... and the next round of UFAs we haul in in preseason...

Easy friend. I don't see the word "round" anywhere in his message.


Thanks, Eeich. To tell the truth I wasn't sure, so I hedged my comment by simply saying "second pick". Anyway, I didn't mean to cause trouble! :rolleyes:

I have sympathy with the "sour grapes" attitude, but this wouldn't have been a Big-Daddy style fiasco--it's health incentive based.

Clearly, the FO is committed to changing it's rep--we are NOT the ATM of the league anymore!!! Probably this will take a while to settle. For now, agents and players expect us to act like we did in the past, and they get pissed and go elsewhere when we don't break the bank. Down the road--assuming we get better!--it will be easier to land players, and no one will be expecting the mega-bucks giveaway that Danny-boy is infamous for. But we're suffereing throught the transition right now.

It is absolutely hilarious to see such abusiveness towards Brown when, clearly, had he chosen to sign with us this board would have lit up in singing his praises. I agree with the previous arguments that bringing him would have been, if not a coup, at least a low cost investment with tremendous potential upside.

But there's a positive side to losing Brown, and its not that he's a whiny chump or whatever. In this failed transaction we saw again the theme that has dominated our front office maneuvering this offseason: refusal to go above our maximum price for free agents, even if it means losing them to another team. Would anyone dispute that in the past we would have thrown some outragous 8 million dollar signing bonus at an injury plagued underachiever when other teams were offering much less? This time we didn't, just like we didn't with Smoot and Pierce, even though it hurt to see them leave. While no one knows exactly how this offseason will turn out in the long run, what is apparent to us right now is that the redskins have finally learned from their past mistakes. Looking forward to a smart draft and a promising season.