Redskins trade for Jason Taylor (updated)

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Originally Posted by GTripp0012

Sorry, but you're wrong here.

I also think you need to be more careful when you read (or maybe I need to be more careful when I write). The team could have just plugged in Evans, but they felt that was a worst case scenario (so they went out and got Taylor). I'm only questioning their logic that Evans would have been a worst case scenario.

It's going to cost us games in the future because we're old. The idea is that if we use the 2nd round pick wisely, we could improve the team in the long run, which we can't do now. 2-3 wins in a 3 year span isn't a big deal, I don't think, but it's still sort of mortgaging the future.

Also, good work assuming that every 2nd and 6th round pick will net talent the equivalent of Taylor Jacobs and Nemo. That's pretty pessimistic of you.

It read as if we were forfeiting the season by trading for Taylor so my mistake if it was misinterpreted. I don't know that they felt that putting Evans in there was a worst case scenario, it was just obvious that Taylor was a better case scenario! Look, it's not like they traded 1st, 2nd and 3rd round picks for a scrub. Right player, right situation, right price. It's a winning deal.

I wasn't assuming that every 2nd and 6th pick equates to Jacobs or Nemo, just pointing out that it's not a guarantee that they will pan out, reflecting your 2-3 win argument.

Yes building thru the draft is ideal, but in a scenario where you can get one of the top players at his position in the game to fill an immediate need for a reasonable price, you do it, every time.