Sally Jenkins: Burgundy and Bold
 

Well, Sally is at it again. Sure, she suggests the possibility that our draft could pan out, but it sounds like she hopes it will fail. She calls our draft board a "pretty colored chart" and refers to our picks as "heedlessly bold" and "backtracking." The funny thing was when she called drafting a punter only acceptable if he is "exceptional," as if Durant Brooks isn't. Like adding the best punter in the country in the 6th round to a team in the same division as Pac Man Jones and Deshean Jackson is a bad decision. Sigh... We could win the Super Bowl and she'd find a way to rag on us.

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Re: Sally Jenkins: Burgundy and Bold
 

This dumbass really makes me sick

Re: Sally Jenkins: Burgundy and Bold
 

i'll take rhymes with witch for 100, alex.

Re: Sally Jenkins: Burgundy and Bold
 

This isn't too bad, in my opinion. She's written some absolute crap in the past, but this one doesn't bother me that much.

Re: Sally Jenkins: Burgundy and Bold
 

[quote=SmootSmack;445945]This isn't too bad, in my opinion. She's written some absolute crap in the past, but this one doesn't bother me that much.[/quote]

maybe that's because...... you're evil!

Re: Sally Jenkins: Burgundy and Bold
 

To me everything she writes is crap now!

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[quote=SmootSmack;445945]This isn't too bad, in my opinion. She's written some absolute crap in the past, but this one doesn't bother me that much.[/quote]

I've certainly seen worse from her, but oh what a shocker that she has major issues with our draft. I understand a lot of folks have the "prove me wrong" attitdue given our overall performance in the Snyder era, but she's a constant hater.

Re: Sally Jenkins: Burgundy and Bold
 

I'm glad I read the article before posting how much I hate Sally. What's the big deal with this? Seems like the overall point of the article was to argue that we adhered to Polian's principle of drafting talent over need. In many ways I read this as a soft-rebuke, or at least qualifying, of the hysterical Boswell column and recent JLC postings.

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[quote=djnemo65;445951]I'm glad I read the article before posting how much I hate Sally. What's the big deal with this? Seems like the overall point of the article was to argue that we adhered to Polian's principle of drafting talent over need. In many ways I read this as a soft-rebuke, or at least qualifying, of the hysterical Boswell column and recent JLC postings.[/quote]

Certainly JLC and Boswell were more negative, but Jenkins is always interesting fodder around here, so it was worth the thread IMO. Regardless you can't buy a compliment from her.

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[QUOTE=djnemo65;445951]I'm glad I read the article before posting how much I hate Sally. What's the big deal with this? Seems like the overall point of the article was to argue that we adhered to Polian's principle of drafting talent over need. In many ways I read this as a soft-rebuke, or at least qualifying, of the hysterical Boswell column and recent JLC postings.[/QUOTE]

It was opposite day at the post :)

Re: Sally Jenkins: Burgundy and Bold
 

Mustang Sally

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It's actually a totally vapid article. Could have been one sentence. "The Redskins draft could be good or it could be bad." Nice.

P.S.

Has anyone ever seen La Confora and Jenkins in the same place at the same time? I'm just saying.

Re: Sally Jenkins: Burgundy and Bold
 

I bet if everyone thought we had a terrible draft she would say ours was awesome. She wants to make headlines by being different.

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She took a whole colum to say what she could have said in about two sentences. 1st, she said we had other needs (all teams have needs to fill) 2nd, she said we will have to wait and see how this draft works out (all teams have to wait and see) 3rd she stated a few other things which all teams face when making draft decisions.

If you ask me its not that she was bashing the Skins but more of the fact she wrote a colum that was just stateing common sense stuff that happens in every draft.

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" [B]All we really know about the Redskins' most prominent choices,[/B] wide receivers Devin Thomas of Michigan State and Malcolm Kelly of Oklahoma, and tight end Fred Davis of Southern Cal, [B]is that they are spectacularly tall. "[/B]

Is that all we know about them? Oh yeah, they were damn good college football players with enormous potential. I admit that I've never been a fan of Vinny Cerato and Danny Snyder, but the draft has never been a problem for them. They've actually done quite well with the picks that they've had. My problem with Vinny and Danny, and would assume that this would be most people's problem with them (aside from ridiculous beer prices, firing of Gregg Williams), was that they've tried to buy a team through free agency and have traded away a lot of draft picks over the past decade. This year, they do something completely uncharacteristic by ignoring free-agency for the most part and then use all ten of their draft picks. What does Sally Jenkins suggest they do? Terrible article!

Re: Sally Jenkins: Burgundy and Bold
 

She sure is in love with the Giants huh, why doesn't she just go write for them?

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[quote=Mattyk72;445980]She sure is in love with the Giants huh, why doesn't she just go write for them?[/quote]

Because she is grandfathered in at the [I]Post[/I]. No other self-respecting newspaper would publish her garbage columns ... though there is always the [I]New York Post[/I] ....

Re: Sally Jenkins: Burgundy and Bold
 

[quote=That Guy;445947]maybe that's because...... you're evil![/quote]

Holy shit that proves it. Smootsmack really is Darth Vader.

Re: Sally Jenkins: Burgundy and Bold
 

Don't read her. What insight does she ever add? Even her compliments are backhanded.

Whatever.

Re: Sally Jenkins: Burgundy and Bold
 

WOW, she's hot for Polan. Someone call him and let him know we have a female writer who wants him in her pants.

Re: Sally Jenkins: Burgundy and Bold
 

Perhaps she wanted to draft the OTHER best Punter in the nation?

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It could be that Sally pays a visit here each and every time she writes one of her colums to see what type adverse affect they will have on the Redskin fans.

Maybe if we just ignore Sally she will eventuallly go away.

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I think the article was pretty good. I like the fact that she posed the "value v. need" dilemna. I think too many people here didn't give JLC & Bos credit for at least stating what is fairly obvious, that the skins didn't draft in a need based approach. Further, all of the high 'grades' we got from espn et al are based on the value of players selected, not how those players fulfill team needs to improve.

The post writers are of course going to be even more skeptical than the nat'l media, because they have dealt closely w/team officials & have witnessed some of the bad times of the Danny era up close. Essentially, I think JLC believes the team should've addressed both lines more, and Bos said that the team used the "best player available" strategy to a flaw.

He may be right, I mean i understand the concept, but if taken to an extreme it begins to get illogical. Jenkins article simply states that they were willing to defy conventional wisdom & that the good gm's have done that as well. Of course there's a "dig" in there, as she states that if the wr signings of 06 had worked out, the team probably wouldn't have drafted 2 wr's, maybe not even 1. I can't blame her for that though, the impact of Loyd's signing still isn't over.

Re: Sally Jenkins: Burgundy and Bold
 

I will always regret having sex with her.

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[quote=EternalEnigma21;446063]I will always regret having sex with her.[/quote]

I regret you putting that visual in my head

Re: Sally Jenkins: Burgundy and Bold
 

I think the article was fair. Look guys, we drafted a punter before we got a d-lineman. Thats not gangsta.

Re: Sally Jenkins: Burgundy and Bold
 

Hey she writes for the Compost of course it isn't going to be positive!

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Writers in DC love getting people fired up esp sports fans because they know how easy it is to do so.