All things offseason discussion part II

Has anyone written more pointless drivel on a subject than John Keim has about the Redskins?

Has anyone written more pointless drivel on a subject than John Keim has about the Redskins?


What exactly?

That wouldn't be fair to the positions in each category that are more valuable than the rest of their group; WR's and CB's, for example. The reason being, teams would just franchise their top WR/CB/3-4 OLB/other examples and make them play every year under the franchise tag at a less-than-market-value salary and with no way to escape, except for a holdout.

I still think the best option is to begin designating new positions.

Or get rid of franchise tags all together. The player's union for the NFL is def. the weakest one out of all three major american sports.

Has anyone written more pointless drivel on a subject than John Keim has about the Redskins?

I tend to find Keim the most informed of the Skins beat guy. Woody in Richmond usually does some fine work.

I tend to find the drivel comes from Reid, Jenkins, and this f*ckface antonym Wise.

Has anyone written more pointless drivel on a subject than John Keim has about the Redskins?

On the contrary, Keim usually writes excellent articles. I don't always agree with him, but his articles are generally well-thought out and reasonable.

Or get rid of franchise tags all together. The player's union for the NFL is def. the weakest one out of all three major american sports.

Yes, I suppose this would be an option as well, but my opinion is that if a team invests money, time, and/or a draft pick in a player, they should have some way of retaining the player even if he wants out. *Edit: At the same time, I hate the exclusive and non-exclusive tags, where the player has very little chance of getting out.* Having no sort of tag at all would mean lesser teams would stay lesser longer, unless they would happen to be a demon in the draft. Maybe do away with the exclusive and non-exclusive tags, but keep the transition tag.

Plenty needs to change, though, because the current system doesn't cut it.

Not sure there's anyone better than Keim covering the team.

Gotta agree Matty

Has anyone written more pointless drivel on a subject than John Keim has about the Redskins?

Da fuq?

Da fuq?

If I were 10 years younger, I'd use an acronym to show that I laughed out loud at your post.

I agree, Keim is the best beat writer we've got. I appreciate his detail and comments on technique. His post-game stuff is the best around for analyzing what went down.

Ok. Ok. I used some hyperbole. Perhaps the sheer volume of content makes for a lot of repetitious analysis and I think his opinions are more or less vanilla, which is the name of the game to a certain extent when you're a beat reporter. I also practically fall asleep when reading about a third of his posts, but that's the consequence of following the NFL during the dead season. No one can hold a candle to the unreadable pablum that Jason Reid produces. He is the least edifying columnist in sports history.

I guess I just long for the days of old journalism when a column for a major newspaper was well written and insightful nine times out of ten. I would much rather read one article every couple weeks by someone like Boswell or the Kornheiser or Wilbon of old than ten daily items of bland schlock that is typically found on Bubba's.