Redskins Insider: Draft Review

[djnemo65]

Well JLC's promise to the fans was that if the team started winning his tone would change. He said something like this in 2006. Then we made the playoffs last year and he got crankier than ever. The key moment that proved to me that he had lost it was when he slammed the skins for trading Archuleta, the snitch with the massive salary who they were going to cut anyway and yet somehow got a pick for. You don't have to know much about football to recognize that that was a coup for us, but JLC somehow found fault with it.

Him and Boswell seem to echo the same argument, could the Skins really be right about players that the rest of the league (or at least the few teams that JLC talks to) evaluated differently. While only time will tell, by JLC's logic a team should never draft a sliding player because the league must know something. Miami shouldn't have drafted Marino and the Bucs shouldn't have drafted Sapp because, really, could the rest of the league be wrong?

While you can debate the strategy of drafting quality over need, you can't argue that our second round players were steals based on their consensus projections (in spite of what JLC's snippety secret sources charge). Kudos to the FO for sticking by their board.

Does anyone else get the feeling that if we had drafted Mike Jenkins at 21 JLC would be complaining about how we should have traded down, and that his sources thought Jenkins was a second round talent?