The Skins Are Really A Very Horrible Bad Team

[REDSKINS4ever]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

What exactly would have been the rationale for signing Hasselbeck?

Hassleback has played in a west coast offense before once under Mike Holmgren. He currently has a 90.0 QB rating. Compare how he's playing now to how Rex Grossman and John Beck are playing. Hasselback is also a proven veteran that has guided the Seahawks to the playoffs a few times and went to one Super Bowl.

The Redskins could have signed Matt Hasselback. If Mike Shanahan and Bruce Allen signed this guy instead of going along with the comic relief notion that John Beck and Rex Grossman could actually play QB good enough to have a winning record, the Redskins would be at the very least be 5-4 right now. By the way, the Tennessee Titans, the team that Hasselback currently plays for, is 5-4 and very much in the hunt for a AFC wild card birth.

[The Goat]

Originally Posted by REDSKINS4ever

Hassleback has played in a west coast offense before once under Mike Holmgren. He currently has a 90.0 QB rating. Compare how he's playing now to how Rex Grossman and John Beck are playing. Hasselback is also a proven veteran that has guided the Seahawks to the playoffs a few times and went to one Super Bowl.

The Redskins could have signed Matt Hasselback. If Mike Shanahan and Bruce Allen signed this guy instead of going along with the comic relief notion that John Beck and Rex Grossman could actually play QB good enough to have a winning record, the Redskins would be at the very least be 5-4 right now. By the way, the Tennessee Titans, the team that Hasselback currently plays for, is 5-4 and very much in the hunt for a AFC wild card birth.

Hasselbeck could have also mentored whoever the next QB would be whereas Rex and the Hobbit obviously aren't anybody you'd want mentoring a younger guy. Actually this is probably the biggest fail in regard to our QB situation...no mentor on the roster so in that regard we still need 2 QBs.

[mooby]

Originally Posted by The Goat

Hasselbeck could have also mentored whoever the next QB would be whereas Rex and the Hobbit obviously aren't anybody you'd want mentoring a younger guy. Actually this is probably the biggest fail in regard to our QB situation...no mentor on the roster so in that regard we still need 2 QBs.

Grossman: "Triple coverage! Sling it! SLING IT LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SLUNG IT BEFORE!"

Beck: "The Book of Beck states that a checkdown pass to your RB is mandatory on third and long. When you've been preparing for as long as I have to be a starting qb these things come second nature."

[The Goat]

Originally Posted by mooby

Grossman: "Triple coverage! Sling it! SLING IT LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SLUNG IT BEFORE!"

Beck: "The Book of Beck states that a checkdown pass to your RB is mandatory on third and long. When you've been preparing for as long as I have to be a starting qb these things come second nature."

Thanks for the hearty laugh!! Needed that before bed

[SirClintonPortis]

Originally Posted by mooby

Grossman: "Triple coverage! Sling it! SLING IT LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SLUNG IT BEFORE!"

Beck: "The Book of Beck states that a checkdown pass to your RB is mandatory on third and long. When you've been preparing for as long as I have to be a starting qb these things come second nature."

Beck is more like this:

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(you restart the program)
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(you then proceed to violent things to the computer and destroy the software cd)

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by REDSKINS4ever

Hassleback has played in a west coast offense before once under Mike Holmgren. He currently has a 90.0 QB rating. Compare how he's playing now to how Rex Grossman and John Beck are playing. Hasselback is also a proven veteran that has guided the Seahawks to the playoffs a few times and went to one Super Bowl.

The Redskins could have signed Matt Hasselback. If Mike Shanahan and Bruce Allen signed this guy instead of going along with the comic relief notion that John Beck and Rex Grossman could actually play QB good enough to have a winning record, the Redskins would be at the very least be 5-4 right now. By the way, the Tennessee Titans, the team that Hasselback currently plays for, is 5-4 and very much in the hunt for a AFC wild card birth.

I like Hasselbeck, but I don't see how adding a 36 year old QB to this team makes sense. Only if Rex had gone elsewhere, I suppose. Maybe we sign Hasselbeck and we don't add young linemen in Chester and Bowen? Does that really help us?

I mean I think the problem is you're talking about how we'd do this year. Sure we'd be 5-4 maybe. But so what? Is that what we're aiming for. Another .500 record with a QB on his last legs? Titans have Locker (heck even Rusty Smith) on the roster behind Hasselbeck. So in a year or two when Hasselbeck is ready to hang up his cleats they have QBs ready. We don't. So yeah we could have added Hasselbeck for a quick fix, but that doesn't really solve our problem.