WP article: Time for Gibbs to walk away?

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Originally Posted by Sheriff Gonna Getcha

How about Darren Howard and Jevon Kearse? The Eagles fans are about to lynch Kearse, Bang cartoons made a skit about Kearse being a bust, and Howard can't crack the starting lineup. Or how about the 49ers free agent spending spree? How is that working out?

If you create a list of all Redskins free agents since 2001 who got $5M+ in bonus money, our track record is suprisingly good. As for draft picks, the results have been mixed and we've given too many away. But, I don't think the media's perception (i.e., conventional wisdom) of the Redskins front office is exactly 20/20. In discussing the Redskins moves they still talk about 2000. We made some boneheaded moves in 2000, but that was 7 years ago. I had a b----h of a girlfriend 7 years ago, but I've let that go. Apparently, the media has some sort of love/hate affair with us.....they just can't let stuff go.

Agreed that the media still thinks about the FA's of 2000 when talking about the skins...that's unfair. I will point out that that we made AA one of the highest, if not the highest paid safety in the league. I don't know too much about the Kearse signing, but at the time he was top 5 pass rushers in the NFL. Due to injuries his play has diminished. Hindsight would say it's a bad signing but at the time there were alot of teams bidding for his services.

I don't know of too many high paid recievers like B lloyd that only have had 3 or 4 catches for their new team. I can't think of any.