Redskins ready to $pend?

[skinster]

Originally Posted by wolfeskins

i'm a bit confused. why don't you just say that you hope the skins have a great season and at next years draft they need to do whatever they can to get andrew luck (trade draft picks/players to move up ...)

Cause that's not how the rebuilding process works. The amount it would take to get luck would be ridiculous...especially if we have a pretty good season. It would almost defeat the purpose. Yes a franchise qb is the most important part of building the franchise, but for our team to be truly great, he needs as many players around him as possible. Lets say we get the 18th pick next year. It would take two draft classes to trade up to get luck (that is at a minimum...especially because trading for high picks are even more costly now because of the rookie wage scale). I don't want to settle for pretty good, I want to have a great team. IMO if we are not contenders for the superbowl, it is a lost season. If I were a seattle fan this year, I would not be happy to make the playoffs knowing that we had no shot at making it all the way. I would have preferred to have lost that last game and pick 15 spots higher in every round. IMO we are not contendors this year. It is a lost season. I still will watch every game to see how we are doing and evaluate the state of our franchise, but it is not the same watching the games of a team that has no chance of completing the ultimate goal. Playing to win games mean nothing unless those games have meaning. The meaning is to get to and win a superbowl. Sorry I have high expectations, but winning games without meaning....just doesn't have very much meaning to me. I'd prefer to best position ourselves in a way that puts us in a position to make us contenders, and have every win, every game have meaning. IMO high draft picks is the best way to do that.