Jamaal Brown Has Surgery..Again.

[JoeRedskin]

Originally Posted by NC_Skins

The actual trade wasn't the bad move made by the FO at the time. The bad move was when they resigned him in the previous off-season KNOWING he was a injury liability, and then counted on him with no solid backup (polumbus) plan in place. Skinsfan, this doesn't smell of Vinny one bit. Not even close.

Yup. Trading for a player one year removed from the pro-bowl was not a terrible move. At the time, I was good with it and actually pretty happy about it. Had it panned out, we would have been set at the tackle position for years to come.

Resigning him? That one boggled me.

[MTK]

Oh well you win some and lose some. At the time they obviously thought he was worth the risk otherwise they don't make the move. Sometimes injuries are a tricky thing.

[SmootSmack]

People forget that the Saints tendered JB at a 1st and a 3rd, so the Redskins actually negotiated down to a 3rd/4th and whatever round Paul was drafted in

[Chico23231]

3rd round pick for a player coming off major injury? Yeah that's a pretty bad gamble imo and then to pay him? 2 extremely poor decisions. But oh well at this point, we obviously moved on.

[NC_Skins]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

3rd round pick for a player coming off major injury? Yeah that's a pretty bad gamble imo and then to pay him? 2 extremely poor decisions. But oh well at this point, we obviously moved on.

The trade was indeed a gamble, but had he stayed healthy and performed at a high level, he would be lauded as a genius. You guys are only saying so due to hindsight.


That said, this is why you don't follow one mistake with another. Once the got injured while here on the Skins, Mike should have corrected the mistake and moved onto something else. Nope, he followed a mistake with another mistake of resigning him. You can forgive one mistake, but making two mistakes with the same person. Not so much.

[MTK]

It's easy to say from the outside that it was a bad decision, and in hindsight too of course. Obviously the team doctors would have reviewed all of his medicals and determined his medical risk was worth the shot. Plenty of guys come back from injury to regain their form.

[Lotus]

Originally Posted by Mattyk

It's easy to say from the outside that it was a bad decision, and in hindsight too of course. Obviously the team doctors would have reviewed all of his medicals and determined his medical risk was worth the shot. Plenty of guys come back from injury to regain their form.

Yup. Other teams, including the Saints, thought he would return to form. And if he had returned to form, we would have one heck of an OL right now.

There are lots of hindsight arguments in this thread.

[Chico23231]

Its a gamble either way. That 3rd round pick coulda been a developed Right Tackle by now, but you cant win them all.

[MTK]

That 3rd rounder could be a bust right now too. Shoulda, coulda, woulda.

[SmootSmack]

Saints ended up drafting Martez Wilson with the pick we sent them

[CRedskinsRule]

From #72 to #79 (where we picked with a trade from Miami)
73 New England Patriots Stevan Ridley RB
74 New England Patriots Ryan Mallett QB
75 Seattle Seahawks John Moffitt G
76 Jacksonville Jaguars Will Rackley G
77 Tennessee Titans Jurrell Casey DT
78 St. Louis Rams Austin Pettis WR



OMG We Coulda Had Steven RIDLEY!!!
(we took Hankerson at 79)
What a bum trade! [/sarcasm]

[skinsfan69]

Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

From #72 to #79 (where we picked with a trade from Miami)
73 New England Patriots Stevan Ridley RB
74 New England Patriots Ryan Mallett QB
75 Seattle Seahawks John Moffitt G
76 Jacksonville Jaguars Will Rackley G
77 Tennessee Titans Jurrell Casey DT
78 St. Louis Rams Austin Pettis WR



OMG We Coulda Had Steven RIDLEY!!!
(we took Hankerson at 79)
What a bum trade! [/sarcasm]

Well Ridley's a pretty damn good player on one of the best teams in the NFL. I'd take him over Brown.

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by skinsfan69

Well Ridley's a pretty damn good player on one of the best teams in the NFL. I'd take him over Brown.

with benefit of hindsight - This is a brilliant point.

[REDSKINS4ever]

The hell with it. It's time to move on and it's time for the Redskins to give Jammal Brown a injury settlement and cut their ties with him. Great player, but he was a player who has landed on IR the last three years. I don't even think Vinny Cerrato would have made this trade for him. But Cerratto was dumb enough to draft Malcolm Kelly after team physicians advised him not to.

[Chico23231]

So we dont need our draft picks now? oh ok...