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Saw this over in the twitter thread, thought it deserved its own topic to help ease the pain of the offseason.

 

"It's the year 2016. The Washington Redskins have just been formally accepted into the NFL as a brand new expansion team. The owner is Donald Trump(who did not become president). You were a life-long friend of Mr. Trump's, and he has hired you to be the new GM of his expansion franchise.

In this fictional scenario, you get to be the GM for the Redskins. However, there is a glass slipper in this fairytale.

You are starting as a brand new NFL franchise. You are able to select THREE players to start your franchise. These players can be past or present(sorry, no current college studs, or players who have yet to enter the league). List the three players you would take in the comments section, and give a brief description on why you chose those players for your brand new Redskins. You can assume your three selections are just entering the prime of their career.

 

http://www.hogshaven.com/2016/2/9/10948982/redskins-general-manager-you-make-the-call

 

My personal 3 (I'm big on the whole "untapped potential" thing):

 

Sean Taylor 

 

Barry Sanders 

 

Derrick Thomas 

 

I tried to focus on guys that I feel had the physical tools to be successful regardless of who was coaching them or who they had playing around them.

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Joe Montana- Joe Cool.  I think he's better than Brady in 4th quarter situations.

Walter Payton-  I think he was better "all around" than Jim Brown.  He could run inside, outside, run with power, speed, catch the ball from anywhere, block, play halfback or fullback and throw.

Deacon Jones- I think he's the greatest "sacker" of all time. The sack didn't become an official stat until 1982, but I would bet he'd be so far ahead of Bruce Smith in total sacks, it wouldn't even be a contest.

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Sammy Baugh - Revolutionized the QB position. One of the greatest overall athletes who ever played. Played all 3 phases.

 

Walter Peyton - Easily one of the greatest RB to ever live. All he did was get yards.

 

Lawrence Taylor - The greatest and most disruptive LB in history. Like Sammy, LT revolutionized the position.

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It's tough, for past players is it their respective impact inflated for current production?  So Sammy Baugh would be insanely awesome today because he was gamebreaking before?  That's tough.  Anyways, my 3:

 

Peyton Manning, Reggie White, JJ Watt.

 

In-his-prime Peyton Manning for how well he could diagnose and dissect defenses, back when he had the arm strength.  Runner up (pending the rest of his career) would be Aaron Rodgers.

 

Next two are Reggie White and JJ Watt.  Just unreal monsters on either side of the d-line.  They make everyone around them so much better and their jobs so much easier.  They make huge plays against the run and the pass, and they do it more often than anyone else except for each other.  No o-line is going to be able to do a damn thing against them.  Defense is almost set with just two guys.

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  So Sammy Baugh would be insanely awesome today because he was gamebreaking before?  That's tough.  Anyways, my 3:

 

 

 

Yes he would. Sammy Baugh wasnt just good for his time. He is the best pure football player to ever live. When you lead the league in passing, interceptions and punting in one season. You are the best ever.

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 Jim Lachey -  the need for a good pass protector is vastly underrated

 Dan Fouts - too many choices here, but the beard could chunk the rock

 Art Monk - not being a homer, but he was as dependable and durable as the rest of them, and could be counted on to make the play.

 

 

May have been more interesting to give top 11 players, but prob would have been too long of a post.

 

Hard to turn down Green but I went offense.

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If I'm starting a franchise in 2016 - and assuming all past players could only be chosen at their individual primes for height weight and speed then no way can I pick anyone before the 70's or 80's.  Physically it just doesn't make much sense.

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Love Green but Deion was a step above regardless of his inability to tackle.

 

No way!  Deion was the king of holding.  Shorter career.  And none of his best games were in the playoffs.  Darrell Green's were.  Even Randy Moss said the guy that played him the best was DG.  And if I remember correctly he was over 40 at the time!  Deion was done at age 32.  Deion spent the last 5 years of his career living off his name.  Watching him was like watching an old Michael Jordan playing for the Wizards with his back to the basket instead of facing up defenders like a boss.  

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Deion was not a better player than Green, sorry, its just the truth.

Deion was a damn good player, but his popularity and flashy clothes and sayings got him media attention. Hell, Ricky Sanders embarrassed Deion!

DG took out the best WR on every team, Sanders was allowed to 'float' more, which gave him more opportunities, and he had the benefit of playing on a top defense, Green didn't play on bad defenses, but overall Deion's teams were better front to back. His team switching from SF to Dallas was his contract option, and jumped when he saw a better team defense; Darrell stuck with 1 team, year in and year out, never complaining.

 

Put them both in a race in their primes, Darrell smokes Deion, period.

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