Dan Snyder's worst free-agent signing

[JoeRedskin]

Each bad in their own way. My list from bad to worstest:

4. Deion: Eh. He played hired gun all his career and that's exactly what we got. Didn't really address a need or significantly improve the team, but he punched the clock played the game and went home. He came here for the money, gave a decent (but not outstanding) effort, and left. I don't think he was cancerous to the team or a liability on the field.

Ultimately, the problem with the signing was that Snyder paid prime time bucks for late night entertainment. Ohhhh, Snyder overpaid. shocker.

3. Fat Al: Was okay with the signing at first, bought his act about wanting to succeed, be a HOF'er and Skin forever. He fed me the drug I love and I ate up. Shame on me. He lied. He's a malcontent and a player who's own team mates feel is unreliable during a game. Shame on him.

As for the signing itself, he was the top player in the UFA class, and we had a real need at DL for a playmaker. In hindsight, horrible signing. At the time of signing - obscene though the money was, it wasn't that bad a move.

2. Archulleta: Snyder lowballed Ryan Clark in order to make a slow, injury prone safety the highest player at his position? A guy who's coverage skills are suspect at best?? Why, when we have a perfectly suitable home grown talent who is a mentor to our best defensive player? At the time of signing this was an idiotic move.

Then he gets here! Guess what, the boy can't play. He's a whiny little boy who feels he been treated badly and goes crying to the press (I am sure it was he who was behind the Tom Friend article blasting the Skin's defensive coaches). He is the NFL's answer to "Mr. Softey". In hindsight, it was an even worse signing than it appearred to be originally.

1. Jeff George: I just don't know where to begin. A prima donna all his career, a guy with a rocket for an arm and rocks for a brain. Team? What team? I'm Jeff F'ing George and I can throw the ball through a wall so it doesn't matter that I don't give a sh** about the rest of you.

I don't remember the game - but my most memorable picture of George was in a game we were losing (shocker) and the O-Line was over matched (In part b/c "standing tall" was not one of George's better qualities - why bust your butt for a QB who isn't going to do the same for you). You could f'ing smell the fear radiating from George as he looked out over center. The announcers saw it, the opposing team saw it, and his own team mates saw it. The ball snapped, he took a 3 step drop and literally fell to the turf as an opponent grabbed his shoulder pad. You could see the disgust on his linemen's face (BTW - he had had a couple sacks but that game, but nothing like JC had to deal with on a regular basis this season).

All of Snyder's worst mistakes - paying too much for moderate talent, going for the splashy player rather than the better team player, being incredibly petty (Snyder wouldn't even shake Johnson's hand after a victory) and meddling in the management of the team at all levels were brought out in the George signing and in his time with the Skins.

He was diva, a coward and a loser. And b/c of him, we let a tough as nails, Super Bowl wining QB hit the road.