Who Will Be The Redskins 2011 Opening Day Starting QB?

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Originally Posted by Paintrain

Is that legitimate scoop or coal in the stocking?

A little from column A, a little from column B.

Seriously though, he's one of several names who have been mentioned as possibilities. Locker and Newton are commonly mentioned as guys the Skins will target in the draft (Locker more so than Newton), which of course means we'll take Mallett.

One of the Shanahan apparently likes Locker more than Newton, the other Newton more than Locker. We'll see who, if either, wins out. Either way, both supposedly agree that Locker and Newton aren't quite ready for NFL play so they will look for someone to hold down the fort in 2011, Perhaps for all of 2011. Among the candidates to hold down the fort that I heard last week (granted this was before The Benching) were the fairly obvious choices: McNabb, Grossman, Beck (yeah, I don't really get it either), and Alex Smith (along with Marc Bulger and Bruce Gradkowski, both long shot considerations though).

There's also some thought that Shanahan thinks maybe he can do for Smith what he did for Plummer, and that really all Alex Smith needs is some consistency, instead of having to learn a new offense under a new offensive coordinator every year (sound familiar?)

But, as I've mentioned before, this Redskins front office is much tougher to figure out than the previous one. It was pretty easy to get inside info, even as I move further to the outside, with Vinny in the house. That's the one thing I miss about him being there