Gibbs

[GMScud]

Originally Posted by Beemnseven

Even as I've been a harsh critic of Gibbs the personnel man, I give him credit for picks like Golston and Montgomery, - those are legitimate gems unearthed in what has traditionally been No Man's Land in Washington: the 5th, 6th, and 7th round of the NFL draft.

What bothers me more, is the expansive foundation Gibbs could have laid without giving away 3rd and 4th round draft picks as though they were ketchup packs at Burger King. In addition to the fact that those are picks we gave away for a guy who's not even here! Duckett lasted one season and was inactive for weeks! And Brandon Lloyd is right behind him.

The hideous repercussions of those moves far outweigh any positive personnel move he's made. If he were any other man than Joe Gibbs, on any other team that made that kind of outrageous mistake, he'd have been fired on the spot.

Has it crossed anybody's mind that maybe with all of those picks, the replacements for Jon Jansen, Randy Thomas, Sean Taylor or Santana Moss might have been able to contribute this season when we're getting hammered by injuries?

Exactly. I think a big reason injuries seem to devastate us so much is the lack of quality depth to fill in the holes. A prime example is how well middle round picks are contributing for us right now (Golston, Montgomery, Cooley, Blades, etc). Another handful of guys like that and our injury bug might not sting as much.

[Sheriff Gonna Getcha]

Originally Posted by GMScud

Exactly. I think a big reason injuries seem to devastate us so much is the lack of quality depth to fill in the holes. A prime example is how well middle round picks are contributing for us right now (Golston, Montgomery, Cooley, Blades, etc). Another handful of guys like that and our injury bug might not sting as much.

The lack of middle round picks definitely hurts our depth. However, the lack of middle round picks may hurt us even more by forcing us to turn our roster over. Without such middle round picks, we are forced to bring in aging vets to fill holes that those middle round picks would fill. In the short run, those aging vets typically play better than rookies and younger players. In the long run, however, bringing in guys when they already have 5 years under their belts forces us to turn the roster over more frequently. The average age of our players is 29 (among the oldest, if not the oldest, average in the league). 20 players on our roster are at least 30 years old (compared with 6 such players on the Cowboys' roster). Nearly half of our starters are at least 30 years old (i.e., Springs, Fletcher, Washington, Daniels, Griffin, Samuels, Kendall, Rabach, Thomas, Jansen). I don't know how others feel, but I definitely believe that such turnover isn't a good thing.