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I almost typed out my resume but no need. I know football very well and rooting for Haskins to succeed doesn't invalidate that. Nor does it change the fact Washington is a league chump who still get taken advantage of by organizations that know football. SF thanks you for not valuing your players. Washington will definitely not be better from these trades. You didn't even get extra picks like Giants got for Williams.

Typical Washington fan response, devalue players, but no one in the NFL world agrees. SF just ripped you off. This is why Washington will always be losers trying to convince themselves they are making good decisions. I thought you can't invest too much in DL, but SF and Philly both continue to? And now you have a hole on both edges- a premium position. Instead of attacking weaknesses we attack strengths. Saying your DL wasnt a strength is disingenuous. Washington is a joke franchise.

Somehow Washington believes devaluing their own good players and creating new holes on the roster is rebuilding. Even the Madden video game would have gotten better value for their players. Trading away premiere pieces without a GM in place tells me all I need to know about Harris. Washington is still the chump of the NFL. Fans saying Washington invested too much in the DL while the top 2 teams in the NFC continue investing in their DL in our faces is peak cluelessness. Why fix weaknesses when you can "fix" strengths? If you don't win games, blame the strength of your team for not compensating. Creating more weaknesses on your roster is rebuilding! Even though that's exactly how the Washington OL fell apart, they should do it again with the DL! Do I have it right? Washington has zero idea how to rebuild correctly and this is just another embarrassing example. Worst organization in football.

Hurray! We love getting ripped off by the 49ers! Draft mocks!

You didn't see sacks from our DL. Did you see one of the top running teams gashing us? Did you see Hurts running on us like he does the rest of the league? Instead of valuing the other team, look at what our players did and build on it. Our secondary is still in shambles and our LBs were always weak. Upgrade there and keep team strength and identity markers. Our fans don't generally comprehend player development, but the plays you are asking our edge rushers to make, they will make in the coming years. We should have learned from Allen and Payne's development how our DL grow in contract 2. What caliber of guy are you putting as a starting edge rusher in today's NFL? That is not a position you treat lightly. A weak edge is attacked all day in today's offenses.

Chase is 24 and on the verge of reaching that next level. Him making the 2 sack games now shouldn't be diminished or made his ceiling at 24 as an edge rusher. Talent like Sweat or Young, edge rushers, require significant assets to replace. FA big money or a 1st round pick usually.

You could also keep them, draft an OL, sign a legit LB, and bring in new Coaches with as many good players as possible.

Communication in the secondary issues as usual. Who is their Coach?

When were we ever this deadly in the red zone under Scott Turner?

#1 is winning his match-up a lot today

The ball doesn't lie

Larsen vs Gates is the biggest difference I'm seeing but the play calling is also better.

Subbing out Gates and Charles has given our offense a chance to be competent

The 2 minute drill this year has been effective like it or not

We always play Philly to stop the run and contain Hurts in the pocket

Gotta have a QB sneak check in that situation

Larson is the unsung hero today

That is beautiful red zone play design

I have noticed a few hot routes. A quick screen to #17 and a quick hitch to #4 among others. I haven't noticed hot routes to #1. I think as fans we oversimplify the idea of scheming around the OL when 4 out 5 of our OL are in the bottom 10 of all 160 starting OL across the league.

Treylon Burks, I think that's the guy Tennesse drafted with the AJ Brown pick, will never be a net gain for the Titans. McCaffrey, who is breaking scoring records, will always be more valuable than the mid round picks who may or may not even be impact players. It only works in scenarios like Seattle with Wilson or Detroit with Stafford. They got enough assets where the net gain was worthwhile. But Detroit still does things like trade Swift for a 4th and then use a 1st for his replacement. That's bad management in my opinion, but some may have liked those moves. Trading top talent for middle of the draft picks is a loss. You're right, and they fit my caveat of selling high. They didn't trade their top guys for pennies like we suggest.

Our route tree is limted by the OL. I hate to scapegoat them for so much but it's true. We have to scheme everything around our OL and if we try anything that takes time to develop, our WRs will be covered because our QB is sacked in 2 seconds.

You are absolutely right, and if that happens, I'll be eating crow saying you guys were right. I'm just going with my gut and admittedly I may be wrong. Part of my thinking comes from when I looked up our upcoming cap space, and I can't figure out where we are going to be spending all that money elsewhere; unless we are going back to big money FAs. I'm not saying reset the market, but if we can keep the #93 #17 and #94 trend of well paid, but not market setting, extentions, why not?

They got abused because their teams are worse. Yes, the Titans are better with AJ Brown still there. The Panthers offense is better with McCaffrey still there. Your math, saying that losing to the Bears means every player is to blame and therefor expendable, is the definition of cutting your nose off to spite your face. We are bad so let's devalue and throw away the few good things we have? I know I'm going to catch hell but I simply disagree.

Fair enough on the Trent point. I'm admittedly jaded by it. IF we do let any of the few talented players we have go, it needs to be for great compensation. Otherwise, I'm in the minority of continuing to pay our home grown talent. I'm aware of the opposing views, such as yours, of asset management and spending too much on the DL. I respect the thinking. I understand the thinking. I just don't agree, in our current case, because those are the few pieces we have to build around. The Eagles have invested even more into their DL, but they also had the sense to do the same for their OL. We need to do the same, build an OL to compliment the DL we have, instead of cutting our nose off to spite our face; what I consider fire sale teams to be doing.

Trent Williams for a 3rd round pick. The fire sale teams are suckers. The winners of these trades are the teams stealing valuable assets. San Fran not only got us, they worked over Carolina for McCaffrey. The Eagles have abused the Titans with Brown and now Byard. The only recent teams who have had success with these fire sales have sold high. The Lions and the Seahawks. Our team sells low. We had people proposing Chase Young for a 4th round pick just weeks ago. We are big time losers in those scenarios.