Mark Maske on 980 today...

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Originally Posted by Bill B

Tafkas - I guess what I am getting at is what I belive the Redskins should focus on is getting a player personnel person that has a really good history with drafts and trades and overpay him so his current team cannot match. If the Skins brought Millen in I, like many other fans, would be pissed. But if you brought in someone who has a great history of making good drafts and trades I know I would be a happy camper.

Now since good GMs/player personel men are hard to come by I would think almost by default you would have to change the structure of the FO - you couldn't bring in a Scott Pioli and say Gibbs would be able to override all your decisions because he is in such demand and coming from a position of power in New England. So my proposal would be at least something similar to what Gibbs and Bethard had where Bethard had control over draft picks and if Gibbs wanted a FA he could go get him (although I would say that since the cap was not in effect at the time you would propbably need to have GM approval as far as contract amounts go so we could avoid overspending)

I don't think that the talent we bring in is that bad its the way they are handled after we decide who we want. Take Loyd for example he had another year on his contract which we could have gone with to see how he would work out and if it went as it did this past year let him go. We offered him a deal which he did not have to work for and now we are stuck with him. I think if he had one year deal here he may have worked harder to earn that new deal and then give him the deal we did. I know there have been other bad pick up's but if we did not give all of that money it would not as big of deal to get rid of them. Now we get stuck with a player with a big contract that no teams wnat to deal with. I just feel that we jump the gun on what we offer people and could get them for a lower price. Brunell is another example of over playing a person that we could have picked up for a much lower price and he may have been gone after his first year if we were not stuck with that big contract.