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Originally Posted by D'BOYZ

Name 1... one player you adquire in exchange of a draft pick and don't count 6th or 7th rounder we both know those are crap pics.

As TAFKAS already noted: Brandon Lloyd.......and I'll even give you a second one from a couple years ago: our starting QB for a 2nd rounder. What QB in the 2004 draft could we have gotten in the second round or later that would be starting right now and would have led our team into the playoffs last year? Matt Schaub? Luke McCown? Again, hoarding draft picks for rookies just isn't as important to the Skins.

I get your point on this 1 but there's a think about overpaying and this type of moves limmits you to not allways get that player that fits your sistem bacause you're out of leverage. Now we know for expirience that FA like drafts not allways result and your team is limmiting it's chance to get good replacement for those players.

Because of FA and not draft your team doesn't has dept in a lot of areas becasue FA cost more is ST goes down, or rogers or washignton yo udon't have a capable backup behind them that's what not having picks does to you

As has already been mentioned, who says we overpaid? And who says we have any less depth than any other team in the NFL? If Brunell goes down, we have our choice of a veteran backup who knows the system or a first-rounder in his 2nd year. If Portis goes down, we have a very capable Ladell Betts. If a WR goes down, we have arguably as much depth as any other team in the NFL at that position with perhaps the exception of Arizona and Indy. I could go through the roster, but we'd be here all day. And at some positions, you'd be right, the Skins need more depth.........But what team isn't that the case for? Let's take Philly for example. What happens when they lose a WR? They've supposedly built such a strong base of players right? Because they keep all their draft picks right? Who's their #1 WR? What happens when McNabb goes down? How about WHEN Westbrook goes down this year? Where is all their wonderful depth that keeps them going without missing a beat. How about when Lito went down last year to injury for 6 games? Their pass defense was terrible.....in the bottom third fo the league. Who steps in for Kearse? Where's their great LBs? They have more depth questions than the Skins, but they're a championship caliber team who's done the right thing by holding on to draft picks for depth? I don't see it.

I reconice there are multiple ways thats why I seperate them because I agree that your team knows how to build via FA and that they cover the mayority of their need as we did.

But the type of aproach to the draft limits the amout of young blood that comes to the team and cheap you agree you can't have a team with 3million- 5 million players at each position, thta's what FA does and even thought your team is the best team to manege the cap and get under it it also forces them not to resign good players and cut others.

Again, I'd rather have veteran depth than rookie depth. Somehow we usually manage to afford to keep the guys we really want.........and to the extent we don't, I don't see any other team in the league that is able to better than us. The Steelers lost their secondary this offseason. The Pats lost their best WR AND their best DE AND have seen their secondary depleted in recent years. The Eagles have let go of their key defensive players like they're diseased throughout the years. Indy lost Edge. I mean really, how are these teams doing any better than the Skins at keeping talent and building depth?