Is it finally time to rebuild??

[skinsguy]

Originally Posted by 44 70 chip

Well my post wasn't about older players specifically but the "careless" way the FO has used draft picks in general. Notice Carriker is not on there several other's like Eathan Albright...

The ones I listed are stand outs for pissing away draft picks.

Cooley love him, great TE but honestly don't need to spend 2 picks on a TE, there are highly comparable TE's drafted with ONE pick... Not putting Cooley down but he's not Antonio Gates.

Portis, if anything a smart GM would have asked for a pick back from Denver... throwing a pick in there was sheer stupidity MAYBE... Shut down corners are and were a much more valuable comodity than Mike Shanahan running backs... He's a good redskin and nothing against portis but they overpaid.

Campbell... we overpaid and even at the time the pick was considered a "reach" and "risky".

And so on... the point isn't ... oh hell the point doesn't need to be anything but this:

we used 19 draft picks to get Cooley, Portis, an average inside LB and MAYBE McNabb for a couple years, and Brown for 3 more games MAYBE more...

19 picks for 5-ish players

I think that's what separates a front office that has a great scouting team and great GM. We have gotten some good players (Sean Taylor RIP, Clinton Portis, Chris Cooley, Santana Moss, Brian Orakpo, etc...) we do tend to pay dearly to get the players we want, which means having to sacrifice down the road instead of adding to.

I think Bruce Allen is what the Redskins need in order to not give the farm and all of the hen houses away for one or two franchise players, but I think the 'skins still need a Bobby Beathard type to find the diamonds in the rough, something I'm not so sure Allen knows how to do.