Week 15: Redskins vs Cowboys Gameday thread

[Beemnseven]

Originally Posted by Ruhskins

How so, he's the one that went after McNabb and gave up two picks for him.

With the benefit of hindsight, yeah, Shanny would like to have those two picks back. But I don't think many people around the league would have passed up the chance at a solid, Pro Bowl-type veteran who knew how to win.

And just as many probably couldn't have forseen how badly he's performed.

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by Beemnseven

With the benefit of hindsight, yeah, Shanny would like to have those two picks back. But I don't think many people around the league would have passed up the chance at a solid, Pro Bowl-type veteran who knew how to win.

And just as many probably couldn't have forseen how badly he's performed.

For an Arizona or Minnesota it would have made sense, not for a team like ours who was rebuilding.

[Bigreds77]

Originally Posted by Ruhskins

For an Arizona or Minnesota it would have made sense, not for a team like ours who was rebuilding.

Great post

[Beemnseven]

Originally Posted by Ruhskins

For an Arizona or Minnesota it would have made sense, not for a team like ours who was rebuilding.

It doesn't make sense to rebuild with a veteran QB?

[SirClintonPortis]

Originally Posted by Beemnseven

It doesn't make sense to rebuild with a veteran QB?

It doesn't make sense to trade away picks for anything short term with regards to a rebuild. You're looking for long term gems when rebuilding and you build around those guys. You make trades for vets after establishing a solid core of guys to build around, like the Jets and Baltimore did.

[Beemnseven]

Originally Posted by SirClintonPortis

It doesn't make sense to trade away picks for anything short term with regards to a rebuild. You're looking for long term gems when rebuilding and you build around those guys. You make trades for vets after establishing a solid core of guys to build around, like the Jets and Baltimore did.

Originally Posted by Ruhskins

Not when you're giving up two draft picks. Yes a veteran would have been great, but we had to gamble and give up draft picks that we could have used to address other issues while rebuilding.

I don't like trading away picks any more than the next guy, but I don't fault the idea of bringing in a veteran, pro bowl-type QB who a solid majority figured could play for a good three more seasons.

It's not written in stone that you rebuild with unproven rookies at all 22 positions.

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by Beemnseven

I don't like trading away picks any more than the next guy, but I don't fault the idea of bringing in a veteran, pro bowl-type QB who a solid majority figured could play for a good three more seasons.

It's not written in stone that you rebuild with unproven rookies at all 22 positions.

Still, our team is up the sh*t creek because and our coach gambled two picks on a QB that has gotten benched twice this season.

[Beemnseven]

Originally Posted by Ruhskins

Still, our team is up the sh*t creek because and our coach gambled two picks on a QB that has gotten benched twice this season.

But was it a gamble worth taking? That's the question. Only now, with the benefit of hindsight do we know the answer.

If McNabb lights it up, plays in Hawaii for a year or two, and guides an infusion of young guys through the rebuilding process on the way to a playoff appearance here and there, the two draft picks you expended don't look so bad. Hell, if he turns in a performance a knotch or two below that it would have been worth the price.

Needless to say, McNabb didn't have anything close to that left in the tank, and Shanahan overestimated him, like many, many others.

I don't like the end result by any means but I'm not going to put Shanahan in front of the firing squad for it either.

[SolidSnake84]

Originally Posted by Beemnseven

It doesn't make sense to rebuild with a veteran QB?

I think that at the beginning of this season, Shanahan wanted to see if he could win right away, and hoped that McNabb would hold down the QB job for a season or 2 while another long-term QB was found.

I think McNabb was too old (34 years old), to be figured into a long-term equation, and which is why i was baffled at the contract extension that they gave donovan, before i learned that Washington had an out after 1 season..

Rex Grossman was pretty damn good today. 4 TD's from a Redskins QB is pretty good this season, and if Rex keeps it up, i think the Redskins have their starter for a few years...

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by Beemnseven

It doesn't make sense to rebuild with a veteran QB?

Not when you're giving up two draft picks. Yes a veteran would have been great, but we had to gamble and give up draft picks that we could have used to address other issues while rebuilding.