Current Redskins Salary Cap Status - 2009

[JoeRedskin]

What does this FO do well? Aquire the players they want. Now, if they just had a solid long term plan to address what players they should want and when they should be getting them (and stuck to it), all would be good.

I absolutely agree that an uncapped year will not mean dominance.

I do take exception to the article on one specific point - he criticizes the Skins for signing AH rather than "looking for the next AH". Well, wait a minute... didn't we draft someone we hope will be the next dominant defensive player? Some guy named Orakpo??

Actually, the AH and Orakpo aquisitions demonstrate both the best and worst of this organization.

AH next to Rak on the Dline would allow the rookie to gain experience at lineplay while benefitting from the double teams AH requires. This would maximize AH's contributions while, hopefully, increasingly exploit Rak's apparent and special physical talents. Truly, a great aquisition of both youth AND experience while increasing depth!

B/c of our scattershot player aquisition, however, we actually have a solid DE in ACarter but no solid SLB. This situation created a huge hole in the defense. So, rather then having the rookie displacing the average-good DE (moving Carter to reserve and providing excellent depth), we have the rookie play out of position so that we can get his skills onto the field and somehow cover for our lack of foresight.

Thus, instead of an average-good SLB and an amazing DL combo, we have an poor SLB (sorry Rak - you're trying but you're not covering) and good DL combo.

More and more, I have come around to understanding and seeing SmootSmack's point that, b/c Danny wants so bad to win, he can't say no when scounts, coaches or personnel people say to him "this player will make a difference". Unfortunately, never saying no means no coherent plan.