In Gus I Trust

[SC Skins Fan]

Originally Posted by 724Skinsfan

Champ Bailey, Trent Green and Frank Wychek would be my top three.

How about this "What If" scenario. Keep Trent Green, which means that you keep the #11 overall pick in the 1999 Draft (because you wouldn't give it to Minnesota for Brad Johnson). So in the 1999 Draft the Skins pick both Champ Bailey and Javon Kearse (who did have 16 sacks his rookie year). Redskins defense solidified and given a solid pass rush with the addition of Kearse and the offense has a great year with Stephen Davis busting out and Westbrook and Connell going over 1,000 yards receiving. With the Defense solidified the Redskins would defeat Tampa Bay (we should have beaten them anyway!!!) and shut down the greatest show on turf (which might never have been if the Skins kept Green) to make it to the Super Bowl where they defeat the Titans (or some other team given that the Titans would not have gotten Kearse).

So, basically, losing Trent Green meant losing the Super Bowl in 1999! (Tortured logic, I know. I was hoping someone better than Kearse was there to make my scenario really seem plausible but that 1999 draft was really bad with the exception of McNabb, James, Holt, Bailey, and Kearse in his first few years). When you really start thinking about it things would get really weird because if the Skins ponied up for Green then the Rams would have signed a different QB (probably) who might not have gotten hurt and would never have given Kurt Warner a chance, etc. etc. As one last side note, I've always thought that if Andy Heck hadn't gotten hurt in '99 the Skins would have beaten the Bucs. Everyone remembers the bad snap, but it was Simeon Rice beating Kip Vickers all night long that lost that game in my opinion.