Peter King On Asante Samuel

[djnemo65]

Originally Posted by irish

The redskins need to stop signing these overpriced players and develop some of their own that are young, hungry, and want to play themselves into a big contractinstead of giving players big contracts and hoping they play up to it. They have employed this method for years now and its not working.

The long term solution is to stop mortaging our draft picks for such players and focus on the draft, a la almost every other succesful team ever (maybe not the 94 Niners). But there is no way we can enter next season with Springs, Rogers, and Proileau (as usual too lazy to spell check) as our starters. Unless we are willing to give up on next season as a rebuilding year - which is pointless because we don't have any young talent to develop, and because Gibbs is nearing the end of the line, and irrelevant anyway bc they are not going to do that - we need to do something to shore up our secondary. So given that we gotta overpay somebody, may as well bring in whoever has the best chance to make an impact.

[irish]

Originally Posted by djnemo65

The long term solution is to stop mortaging our draft picks for such players and focus on the draft, a la almost every other succesful team ever (maybe not the 94 Niners). But there is no way we can enter next season with Springs, Rogers, and Proileau (as usual too lazy to spell check) as our starters. Unless we are willing to give up on next season as a rebuilding year - which is pointless because we don't have any young talent to develop, and because Gibbs is nearing the end of the line, and irrelevant anyway bc they are not going to do that - we need to do something to shore up our secondary. So given that we gotta overpay somebody, may as well bring in whoever has the best chance to make an impact.

At some point the orgaization has to bite the bullit because these will be problems that have to be faced often. Change the philosophy now and get to fixing the problem now rather than after the next failed 5 year rebuilding process.

[djnemo65]

Originally Posted by irish

At some point the orgaization has to bite the bullit because these will be problems that have to be faced often. Change the philosophy now and get to fixing the problem now rather than after the next failed 5 year rebuilding process.

As long as we can stay under the cap I think we can have our cake and eat it too. And we have, if nothing else, been quite successful in that.