[sportscurmudgeon]

Here is an important thing to remember for this time of year:

Believe NOTHING that any NFL coach or GM says about the draft. And the corrollary to that is that anything you deduce they are about to do in the draft is merely a guess because they have been lying to you on purpose.

Having said that:

IF - note I said IF - the Redskins draft Campbell or any other QB at #25 (I like Charlie Frye from Akron more than Campbell that that's a detail), that will demonstrate clearly to me that Gibbs has not liked Ramsey from day one. Remember last year when he took over he said that one of the things he and his staff saw was that the "previous regime" was starting people who never should have been starting? Then his first act was to go out and sign Brunell to play QB. MAYBE Joe Gibbs has decided that Ramsey CANNOT play QB iat the NFL level for a winning team. There are lots of "pretend NFL QBs" who have careers moving around with teams aspiring to be .500. Do the names Gus Frerotte and Tony Banks and Jeff Blake ring any bells? I don't KNOW if Gibbs thinks Ramsey is a career loser, but he might...


Daseal:

Ths Skins have more than 2 needs. Yes they need a WR. I actually think they need 2 WRs but I'll back off and agree that one really good one will do. Yes, I agree they need a CB. But that's not all.

The Skins also need Cooley to upgrade his game significantly OR they need a TE.

The Skins need a player to provide depth at LB and at Safety. With Arrington gimpy, Barrow still "making great progress in his recovery" as he has for the last year and Pierce gone, there are a lot of question marks at LB.

The Skins' need depth on the OL. We saw what happened last year with one injury to Jansen.

The Skins need another DL because the assumption that the defense will be as good as last year depends on 5 defensive linemen playing as well as they did last year when all 5 played the absolute best they ever did. That's not highly likely to happen again.


Ramseyfan:

Your exchange of those disabled and afflicted mondeys for the Skins' FO personnel would be an improvement even if they don't draft another QB in the first round.


Schneed10:

The contract that would go to a pick at #25 would not be anything near what it would cost to sign a pick in the top 5. The cap room hit for a player there is not a really big deal. Now if they package those two picks with Gardner and trade up to #2 to take WHOMEVER, that will be a humongous signing bonus and fat contract for the team to swallow.


BTW, back in December we had some folks here speculating about what might happen if the Skins traded Gardner for a first round pick. Has that delusion passed yet? The Skins would probably take a low 3rd roound pick for Gardner now and give thanks to each and every football god for the good fortune if they could get it. I still think that the best they will get for him is late 4th round or he may be the "sweetener" in a deal to make a draft choice swap. Other than that, he'll be playing wide-out for this offense next September - - because as mediocre as he is, they don't have anything better...