Please Draft ??? at #13

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

The whole situation just doesn't add up. This is just one more fact in a line of them that draw no clear path.

• All reports use the word "smitten" to describe Snyder's attitude towards Sanchez. It's been many decades since anyone has used that term, and yet, multiple outlets use it within a day or so? Sounds like a direct leak.

• The term was used just a couple of years ago with us and Calvin Johnson
  
  

  We don't have a plethora of cap room, but we're supposedly trying to get in the top 5, where the rookie pool might end up exceeding our cap room.

  Not to mention a QB would be a the upper echelon of the rookie scale
  
  

  Jay Cutler. We chased him hard because we thought he was the missing piece. We didn't get him, and now it's Sanchez? Really?

  As simple as ABC (Anyone But Campbell...or Always Bet on Colt)
  
  

  Cerrato pulled an eleventh hour trade down last year, and now were considering going up?

  Another trade down would be nice
  
  

  No one in the Redskins organization has ever tried to squash these rumors at all. All Snyder has done is thrown gasoline on the fire. He might just be this short-sighted, or he might be wise enough to leverage his position. Prior evidence suggests he's probably just shortsighted.

  What's the point of squashing them?
  
  

  We've avoided adding pretty much any help in free agency after the Dockery signing, despite unexpectedly cutting Jason Taylor since then.

  Not counting Haynesworth, or even Robert Thomas (to a lesser extent)? Or the guys we brought back?
  
  

  We're frank enough to tell Sanchez where he stands with us, but we're okay going "behind" Campbell's back (I say "behind" because if it is a smokescreen, Campbell's in on it).

  Campbell's our guy!!...until he's not
  
  

  Brian Orakpo might be a simultaneous smokescreen, or a last ditch attempt to divert attention from Sanchez.

  The one guy VC has been most open about is Orakpo, don't know if that's a good thing,k since the start of this whole draft stuff back in January
  
  

  We can't even outbid other teams who need Sanchez' services far more than we do.

We can...but probably shouldn't

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

What's the point of squashing them?

Well, what if we do want him, but at 13. And it gets to pick 11 or 12, and the Jets go up to get him because, even though there's no one between 11 and 17 that need a QB, they think we'll actually do it.

That's a successful smokescreen...but if they wanted him enough to grab him at 13, which seems to be the picture that Snyder is painting, cut the beast off at the head, and up your chance of getting him at your slot.

General draft logic says the Skins would only be acting this way if they really didn't care about Sanchez. But logic in general suggests that Jason Campbell is on the verge of something great, so I'm not sure any reasoning should be applied to this situation.