do we show our hand to soon (Barrow allowed to seek trade)

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Originally Posted by paulskinsfan

FINALLY! Yes, our front office IS to blame for the way they have bungled one situation after another! Why even sign Barrow, 35, to a 6 year 13 million dollar dealt to begin with! And why would you tell Lavernous Coles that you will trade him and suffer such a huge cap hit? This team needs a GM. Those of us that are old school remember when the GM was Bobby Beatherd and the team thrived with its personnell, now we flounder. Gibbs has proven he's a great coach, but he needs someone else to be the devil's advocate on personnell decisions, just like Beatherd was in the old days. Vinny Cerrato is NOT the answer, we need a GM that will work with the coach, and disagree with him when it is necessary. Yes, they have picked up a few good free agents in Marcus Washington and Cornelius, but for the most part our team is in disarray when it comes to the draft and free agency. Look at Darnerian McCants, signed him to a deal, gave him a nice sigining bonus, then sat his ass on the bench all of last season. We traded like a 3rd round pick for Brunnell who would've been cut anyway, then we trade Champ AND a draft pick for Portis. I know some of you guys don't like to criticize our team, but the fact of the matter is that our front office has made the Skins a laughing stock on most websites. We need a GM.

Wow! those are points no one has ever brought up before! I am surprised we hadn't thought of them.
I don't know if I'll ever get tired of hearing how bad our front office is. I mean the world wouldn't be complete without some know-it-all proclaiming that he thinks we should have handled something differently. 20-20 is hindsight and the decisions made are counter to the decisions made in the past. Note: we haven't won a playoff game since 1991...maybe the decisions in the past we pretty poor and the new dirction is the right way.
As for why we signed Barrow:
Because Barrow had missed like 1 game in the last 8 years and was NOT A INJURY RISK when signed. His situation simply turned out to be bad luck. He was a stud Pro Bowl linebacker with no injury history to speak of. It was a quality signing that didn't work out. The 6 year deal was actually more like a 3 year deal and they got him for decent money. They could not reasonably expected him to never play when he never had any injuries before. Just plain old bad luck.