It's Time For The Skins' Super Bowl Starting With Free Agency

[That Guy]

well, its about price/performance, and the draft is much better at that and allows many many more mistakes, since they're cheap. FA only works well when you don't make any big money mistakes.

[Sheriff Gonna Getcha]

Skinsfan69 has a point that, rightly or wrongly, there is a perception in the Redskins locker room that the front office does not reward its home-grown players (e.g., Smoot and Pierce) and has a "the grass is greener on the other side" mentality. Losing Dockery would certainly contribute to that perception and frustrate many Redskins players and fans.

Where I differ with Skinsfan69 is when he says that "free agency does not work." EVERY team in the league uses free agency to build its roster. So, free agency can "work." Moreover, I wouldn't pin the Redskins losses all on free agent acquisitions for several reasons. One, some of our best players in recent memory have been free agents (e.g., Coles, Thomas, Griffin, Washington, Springs). Two, some of our biggest offseason busts have been draft picks (e.g., Ramsey, Jacobs, Arrington). Three, we had some poor coaching staffs (e.g., Spurrier). The list goes on and on. I agree that our free agent acquisitions haven't solved all of our problems, but they haven't created all of them either.

[djnemo65]

Still, if you look at the big picture it is tough to idenfity a team since the 94 niners who built a championship team primarily through free agency. Moreover, there wasn't one succesful team this year that I can think of that employed the strategy. I think Washington this year was the big test case and it failed.

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by djnemo65

Still, if you look at the big picture it is tough to idenfity a team since the 94 niners who built a championship team primarily through free agency. Moreover, there wasn't one succesful team this year that I can think of that employed the strategy. I think Washington this year was the big test case and it failed.

We didn't fail because we signed free agents, we failed because we stupidly signed free agents (and traded).

[That Guy]

the saints signed a ton of new FAs this year and they worked out, though outside of brees, most were pretty cheap (stoutmire, etc). the browns signed a lot of FAs and it didn't affect their W/L record too much, but they had a serious talent deficiency going into the year.

[diehardskin2982]

here an idea; trade both betts and portis for JV and Bly then draft Adrian peterson lol

[CHIEF CHUCKING MY SPEAR]

FA only works to fill in the gap not able to fill in from the draft. We go the other way doing FA and just pissing away the draft like it doesnt matter. Until we change that mindset we will not win anytime soon unfortually.

[AlvinWalton'sNeckBrace]

we implemented a different offense...we'll probably start to see them again, it is just taking time to get the O in gear

[AlvinWalton'sNeckBrace]

to be honest...I never understood why we needed a new OC anyway...near the end of the year, the O was clicking, we needed ONE wide receiver and to start campbell

[That Guy]

i'd bet against lloyd getting 700+ yards this year. right now he's the #3, and last year as a #2 he did NOTHING.

the progression is moss, cooley, ARE, RB, whatever junk TE/WR that's also on the field

[That Guy]

i'd bet against that.

[That Guy]

we have 2 good weapons in cooley and moss at WR/te. that's it.

[That Guy]

he wasn't nasty in SF. he made one play and disappeared for the rest of the half. their fans weren't sorry to see him go. I mean, lloyd only had the worst stats for a starting receiver in the history of the nfl (at least during the superbowl era).

[Gmanc711]

Originally Posted by That Guy

he wasn't nasty in SF. he made one play and disappeared for the rest of the half. their fans weren't sorry to see him go. I mean, lloyd only had the worst stats for a starting receiver in the history of the nfl (at least during the superbowl era).

I'll agree with you until Lloyd proves me wrong...but I'm starting to really like Randel El at WR too, I thought he played very well down the stretch for us at that position and I could easily see him stepping up as our #2.

[That Guy]

Originally Posted by Gmanc711

I'll agree with you until Lloyd proves me wrong...but I'm starting to really like Randel El at WR too, I thought he played very well down the stretch for us at that position and I could easily see him stepping up as our #2.

he should already be our #2, lloyd sucked, and attitude to boot. ARE is still making too much for what he does, but compared to lloyd, it's all roses.