My redskins recently traded for Donovan McNabb. Tough trade for me as the 37th pick overall is a VERY good, high value pick to trade for a 33 year old, 11 year veteran with only 1 year left on his contract and no offensive line to block for him. Not to mention the either 3rd or 4th round pick NEXT year. But if it's a 3rd rounder it means McNabb probably hit a lot of different goals they set for him and in turn we probably had a pretty good season... So I guess I would rather give up the 2nd this year and the 3rd next year.
Sully?? You don't like this trade??
That's not what I said. There are some problems with this deal. The first being that McNabb has only 1 year left on his deal. Let's be optimistic and say he has a great year and makes himself look like the next big OLD quarterback, ala Joh Elway, Kurt Warner or Brett Favre. Somebody is gonna be crazy enough to offer this geeser a 5 year 75 million contract. But do I want my Skins to commit that much to a guy who could be anywhere near that close to falling off? NO!!! So if he leaves than we just gave up 2 picks for a one year potential run to the playoffs in which we get bumped off in the 2nd round...? Is that good?
Although, as I stated in the title, I LOVE DONOVAN'S NEW DOUG WILLIAMS MUSTACHE!!! Maybe its the sign of whats to come??? Doug was a super bowl winning quarterback!!
So....?
So we need to sign him to a contract extension TODAY. A 3 year deal, heavy in incentives that will lock him up until he is 36-37. At that point, hopefully we'll have our own Kevin Kolb that has had time to develop under Donovan that will be ready to take the reigns. That's obviously a perfect world view, but...
The draft is April 22, and we have the 4th overall pick that hopefully turns into Russell Okung, the Left tackle out of OK State that will fill the whole that we haven't had to fill in 10 years because Chris Samuels has anchored it. But what if he's gone?? Than we grab Tennessee safety Eric Berry who is like the second coming of Sean Taylor but with better coverage ability and the ONLY player in the NCAA who could lay a finger on Tim Tebow. If Okung is gone we could also trade down to an early 10 to mid teens spot and grab a lesser Left Tackle and maybe a get a 2nd or 3rd rounder back from another team so we could make up for losing the 2nd rounder to the Eagles in the Donovan trade.
This team still has a lot of holes. A better O-Line than last year that could still use a lot of love, Safety, Cornerback, Wide Receiver and the thing we don't want to talk about... The potential of needing a new Defensive Tackle. That would be if we trade Albert Haynesworth who doesn't want to play Nose Tackle in the Redskins new 3-4 scheme that puts only 3 men on the defensive line and he would have to clog the middle and wouldn't be able to look as flashy and get all the sacks as he did in the past but would be WAY more valuable to the team there. He really is the perfect player for that spot despite the fact that he doesn't want to play it. In which case, what do we get in exchange for him? A 1st rounder??? Arguable the 2 best players in the whole draft are DTs, Gerald McCoy and Ndamukong Suh. So I would be fine if we got one of them, but do we have to lose Okung?? Or Lord!!!
The last thing I want to bring up is the area everyone else talks about that I DON'T EVEN THINK IS AN ISSUE!!!! WIDE RECEIVER!!
We have 2 young receivers, Devin Thomas and Malcolm Kelly who are going INTO their 3rd seasons. Lets talk about the importance of this. Everyone wants to club these guys and call them busts. Wide receiver HISTORICALLY doesn't produce studs the 1st OR EVEN 2nd years of play. Name 3 RECEIVERS NOT NAMED LARRY FITZGERALD, RANDY MOSS OR BRANDON MARSHALL THAT HAVE BEEN DRAFTED AND BEEN HUGE THE 1ST 2 YEARS?!?!! Please. Try. Desaun Jackson? 2 TDs first year. Maclin, 4 and only 700 yeards. Eddie Royal? Ok, 980 and 5 TDs first year.......... 345 AND ZERO THE NEXT!!! And what did ALL of those players have in common?? 2 HUGE things!!!! 1. THEY ALL STARTED!!! 2. THEY ALL HAD QUARTERBACKS TO THROW TO THEM!!! So please, shutup and give these guys a chance and ignore WR in the draft and concentrate on the real needs at hand like the O-Line that started 10 different guys last year.
Geeze... getting me all worked up. I need a beer now, thanks. As of today it looks to be a very exciting year for the Redskins... but so is every off season...
REMEMBER: DRAFT NIGHT PARTY AT TGI FRIDAYS AT ARUNDEL MILLS ON THURSDAY NIGHT!!! Come hang out, it'll be a blast. Loads of specials and I may come dressed as Jim Zorn again... or maybe try Mike Shannahan...
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