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PartyPosse

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  1. Weird how you said you don't know whats gonna happen in the locker room and then said all this bs about "gonna cause issues in the locker room" is bs.
  2. I will say, the immediacy of sponsors to pull merch off the shelves was unfair. There should have been a window so the team had time to properly assess what would be best in terms of name, logo etc. especially with everything else happening this year. It almost felt like an unrealistic ultimatum
  3. You're getting too political for the thread. All my point was, it's not such a simple thing for some people to just "not post on social media". To many that muzzling is more indicative of bigger concerns. I'm also not privy to the lockeroom and I don't know what is said/unsaid between players and coaches. I anticipate everything gets ironed out before training camps officially open. Either that or we'll see players starting to ask for releases or trades and they'll probably do it in a public manner to garner public sympathy. It would be an easy sell for many if they claim they don't feel comfortable playing for someone who believes what JDR believes and it would be difficult for the team not to act accordingly (whatever that means).
  4. I think for many it’s the idea that you can’t speak your mind in fear of repercussions for having a different opinion. The idea of being ideologically controlled is just another manner of tyranny to so many. I’m not saying it’s right, just that I understand where they’re coming from.
  5. I think there are a lot of people, like Max and Peter King, that have about a hundred critical pieces about the Redskins ready to go for every scenario and circumstance. It makes them feel better to be "on the forefront" of the battle.
  6. You know what would be a good name for the team? The Washington Farts. I would literally buy every piece of merchandise I could find for a team called the farts.
  7. well, whatever the bad news is, the good thing is that all of this has been isolated in the off-season. This is the best time for drama and turmoil. It keeps us fans busy with football news and it lets the team iron out the problems before concentrating solely on the product on the field.
  8. I’ve learned that while it’s influential, social media isn’t as indicative of what the general populace feels as I thought. but that’s a completely different topic. I mean is pressing a button on a phone considered an action? Because that’s all he’s really doing.
  9. Let’s just take a wait and see approach. If it works then it works. I’m excited about the season and all the new changes but it’s moot if we don’t become a winning franchise again.
  10. I completely understand this perception, and see why a significant portion of the fanbase would see the selection of Gibson in the early 3rd this way (hybrid, raw, bigger needs elsewhere, no defined position, lack of sustained production, a perceived reach etc...). However, I see the situation differently, and both get the rationale behind selecting Gibson at pick #66, and am extremely optimistic that his selection is going to pay big dividends on a variety of levels. Don’t get me wrong. I like him and his versatility. I just feel her was drafted solely because of his versatility. That he could fix so many different problems at once instead of finding someone with the ability to just solve one problem. I’m excited to see what he could do but I still think he was the kind of player you grab later in the draft. Guys like him always exist.
  11. I still don’t love the drafting of Gibson. With too many other holes needing filling I don’t see his particular style of hybrid play helping out much. Prove me wrong Antonio.
  12. I hope Snyder holds out for back-to-back trophy hoists.
  13. I also know it’s impossible but I have dreams of drafting Young and Xavier McKinney and watching Xavier rack up 15 sacks as a pure Inside blitzing safety lol.
  14. I always envisioned having your better coverage guys at OLB in a 4-3, especially when you have guys like Sweat, Allen, Young, Ion, Payne etc always on your DL. Teams can’t double everyone and if one of those 4 can’t get at least pressure on the QB at all times then something is seriously wrong. I guess you could have one of your DE in at OLB but I just assume they’re the most easily exploitable quick out for a QB in that scenario. If we’re moving Young back into coverage then we’re wasting his talentS
  15. My only worry with this, and I may he completely off base with the 4-3, but aren’t you running the risk of having say Sweat or Kerrigan at OLB being forced into coverage? Wasn’t that, especially Sweat’s, biggest downfall was that he ended up in coverage far too often?
  16. Not to nitpick but Settle was drafted 4 rounds after Payne so technically he wasn’t A skin yet.
  17. I think that's a big part of it. We had just signed Swearinger and drafted Nicholson the year before. I don't think they viewed safety as dire as some of us did. Honestly, so was I. I was really surprised Miami took him. I think they panicked when all the QBs were off the board and just went BPA. I honestly believe if Arizona didn't draft Rosen Minkah would have been a Redskin.
  18. I honestly don't think there was a wrong choice. If James had his rookie season and then got injured, many here would be saying same ol same ol with this team - find a guy who's good and he gets injured. I agree about Payne, he's been solid not spectacular. But he's also turning only 23 i believe and he's steadily getting better. Even if given a 2nd round grade by some draft pundits, he's certainly exceeded that IMO so far. My opinion was that the team saw decent depth at safety in the draft and hoped to attack that later. Guys like Bates, Marcus Allen, Whitehead, Reid etc. If just never worked out and they drafted the wrong guy in Apke. I do wonder what they would have done had Minkah fallen to them at 13.
  19. I do agree he was a bit of a reach but no way would he have fallen out of the first round. Granted there were only two more DL that went in that round, but i'm sure he would have gone. In terms of James, interestingly, the team's defense actually got better the second year when he was injured. They gave up 400 less yards in the air but more on the ground. One year Bosa was healthy and one he wasn't. Just by going off the presence of those two players, (and granted it's a dumb way of comparing the seasons) Bosa's DL presence had a much more profound effect than Derwin's. I've always been a believer in the trenches and building out from there. With no OL or DL then everything on out suffers. It's like a ripple effect. So i had no problems with the Payne pick even with Allen and Ion already in the fold. I'm stubborn in the idea that top 5 picks if you have should be geared towards DL, LB, OL or QB. Unless there's a one-in-a-lifetime prospect it's never worth it. I like James, but i feel like safety is a position that can be learned in the nfl where the average player can become an above average safety if they're smart enough and instinctual enough. It's why safeties rarely get picked high. I think like 11 in the last 5 years.
  20. I think especially for in top 5 if a player is a bust then he’s gonna be a bust regardless of how they’re scouted. Usually, unless a team goes against the grain, players in the top 5 are almost always adored by scouts and draft pundits. You can always find ways to knock them but for the most part they’re busts without expecting them to be. Naturally you have your occasional flash in the pan QB that has a big year and then becomes a draft darling for their smarts and the GMs that pick them deserve all the criticism in the world (Trubisky immediately comes to mind), but I don’t know how many other teams considered Mitchell to go as high as he did. I know there was a lot of talk but I don’t know how serious it was. once you’re picking outside of the then it becomes easier to find flaws. Those “well if this wasn’t the case with them they’d probably be drafted higher” scenarios. For us, our Achilles seems to be the second round. Best player we’ve drafted there in 10 years has been Preston Smith. Along the way it’s been guys like Amerson, Murphy, Cravens, Anderson, Jenkins. That to me has been the biggest problem. Im also still not in the camp that in the long run James will be a better pick than Payne. I think it’s easier to stand out at a more glamour position but I think Payne has more influence on every play.
  21. While I agree with the sentiment, I feel like in the last 3 or 4 years we’ve been pretty damn efficient at finding good players in the backend of the draft and imo that’s what separates the meh teams from the great ones. Quality depth players on day 3 and udfa. Guys like Holcomb and Crowder and Harmon, Sims, Moreland, Roullier, Settle and Ion and Jarrett. Most teams can look back at their top picks and play the hindsight game but what’s important is that outside of Doctson, our first rounders have been pretty damn efficient. You can look at the Chargers with James but their second rounder that year has been a bust, Forrest Lamp has been a bust. Teams rarely draft superstars unless they’re in a position to. We toiled in mediocrity for too many years leaving us always drafting in the 15-20 range.
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