Redskins agree to trade for No.2 overall pick in 2012 Draft

[SC Skins Fan]

This trade is a bad one for the Redskins. They have once again given up too much compensation for a player and have undervalued the draft. I have a difficult time actually seeing this as being any different than any other trade that they have made in the last 12 years. If anyone had thrown out this trade as a hypothetical there would have been 50 pages of people saying "that is horrible, it is mortgaging the Redskins future!" Then it actually happens and people are dancing in the streets. And a picture of Griffin holding a Lombardi trophy. Really? At least the expectations are realistic and you recognize the immense value that the Redskins have given up. To put it in concrete terms, if the Giants had made this trade in 2004 for Eli Manning and you look at the players picked with the equivalent picks that the Redskins gave up, it is Phillip Rivers, Chris Snee, Shawn Merriman, and Santonio Holmes (Giants traded out of pick 25, they actually drafted Kiwanuka). Every one of those players has played in a Pro Bowl. Hey, but at least the Redskins are only one player away from a championship! Plus this trade will actually have compounding results because it will compel the Redskins to go and overpay for marginal players in free agency (I'm thinking Colston and VJax, but just throw in their equivalents, guys who will be overpaid based upon their numbers in very favorable offensive systems with very good QBs), both this year and in coming years. The only one (admittedly I did not read EVERY post) willing to actually say that the Redskins horribly overpaid is GTripp. I think Redskins fans might just get what they deserve.