Gibbs: "We had a really good draft!"

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Originally Posted by skinsguy

Yeah he said that Campbell was a player they felt was too good to pass up on and felt he can be a long term Redskin for us. Gibbs spoke highly of Campbell's size and ability to use his legs to get out of trouble. Gibbs emphasized, however, that Ramsey is the guy now to lead us to championships.

This also reminds me of when the Skins drafted Rypien back around 1987 I believe. Doug Williams was our guy, but Rypien was being groomed for our future. Once Rypien became our guy, Gibbs went out and drafted Stan Humphries to be groomed as Rypien's replacement if something happened to Mark. If you think about through Gibbs' first tenure, we really shouldn't be surprised by the acquisition of Chris Campbell. Gibbs expects Campbell to learn from Ramsey and Brunell. Joe also expects Ramsey to be our guy for the next few years and when it's time for Ramsey to step down or if he decides to go to a new team, we will have a fairly young guy who knows the system that we can just plug in!

See the difference back then was that we were continually a playoff team year in and year out and really didnt have to draft young guys because we already had a good enough team to compete. Now we dont have that type of team right now, so my problem is that we cant be wasting picks on players that can help us now; to groom someone for the future. Who knows, I'm not totaly blown away by the pick, but I'm still having a hard time liking it.