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Originally Posted by Paintrain
You know, that's a good point. If we would have seen Ray Lewis, Housh and a 3 year extension for Springs and Taylor then I could definitely sign off on 'same old Redskins' but like John Clayton said, since when is signing the best defensive lineman in the league a bad thing? There's a lot of prejudice when it comes to free agency that we buy into. I'm not trying to be a Snyderatto apologist but just because we spent a lot of $ (2 players with Redskins pedigree no less) doesn't equate to same old same old.
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Very well said. The issue in the past was a) trading draft picks for mediocre/ washed up players and b) signing mediocre/washed up players who didn't improve the team. Indeed, a lot of these high profile moves famously and disastrously flopped. But that doesn't mean there is something inherently wrong with signing big name free agents, it just means you have to sign the right ones. People seem to forget about the 07 Patriots trading 3 draft picks for wide receivers including a famous malcontent, overpaying another underachieving receiver, and breaking the bank on Adalius Thomas...and proceeding to go 16-0! My point being that, as obvious as it sounds, signing good players makes your team better! Signing bad players doesn't! And does anyone really not think Haynesworth is going to be good?
Interestingly it was the Jason Taylor trade that epitomized the "old-Skins" and yet that move didn't prompt nearly the media vitriol that this year's splurge has.