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1 hour ago, VaK9Trainer said:

According to the Rumor Mill, they're going after Kirk Cousins. I don't know if thats the right move to make but talk of that is heating up. 

I'm hearing the same thing. 

KC would be landing in a spot where fans actually want him to play. Say what you will but the guy produced when he was here.

Granted he had very good WRs in that time period, but I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt if only for T-Mac.

Probably when we beat TB in our last playoff win (2006).

Good game. Classic Gibbs since the Bucs had defeated us just a few week earlier in a real nail-bitter.

11 hours ago, Warhead36 said:

We have 90 Mil in cap room and four other picks in the top 100 to address OL. Calm.

No Alt or Fashanu sends the wrong message to the hypothetical rook.

"Yeah you know we took you to be our our savior. Do you magic with our crappy O-line".

6 hours ago, Conn said:

Why does it matter what our QB draft record is? None of those people are here anymore. For the first time in decades, it’s a new dawn for us. Like a normal franchise. 
 

Oh the other hand, if we’re using your logic—our elite LT draft record in the top-5 in recent decades has been excellent. We have nothing to show for it. Zip. Zilch. Nada. 
 

If you believe it’s a new day with new decision-makers, then they have a chance to build around a QB with all their resources. Right? If you don’t believe it’s a new day, and any QB we draft will bust under foreseeable bad circumstances…then who gives a **** what position we draft anyways. I’d personally find it hard to care if I thought that a new Owner, FO, GM, HC, coaching staff, etc. changed nothing for our fortunes. 

Your logic is sound, bro. I get it.

I'm just stressing that our O-line was historically bad last season.

It needs a HUGE revamp that starts with young triple A players.

Why bring a shiny rookie QB if you can't even keep him upright?

The new FO has a great challenge.

It needs to both start with a bang and convince the fans they know what the heck they are doing and that starts this year's draft and the O-line.

On 3/4/2024 at 9:13 PM, Conn said:

Neither of those OT prospects are generational. It’s an extremely deep OL class, we’ll get a good one in the 2nd round. We had arguably two HOF caliber LT’s back to back during our long QB drought and never accomplished a thing. 
 

We have a lot of resources to improve the OL. It won’t all happen in one year, but it also doesn’t require the #2 overall pick to fix. We have a ton of cap space and draft picks over the next couple years to work on the OL. We only have one single resource that can semi-reliably gift you a franchise QB. 

We'll just to have to differ on that one, friend. Both of those tackles WILL be taken very high up in the draft. They are elite and are "safe picks".

Most draft experts say so. Any two of those guys (Alt or Fashanu) will be NFL stalwarts for years.

Our QB draft record is terrible.

We've drafted just one decent to very good QB here in the past 20+ years (Cousins) and he was more of an "insurance" if RG3 imploded (he did).

I have to stress that we allowed the most sacks ever in franchise history last season.

On 2/17/2024 at 10:11 AM, bird_1972 said:

 

Ugh ... so what should our plan be at LT? 

Pray?

You know you're in Redskins land when the draft conversation has been monopolized by QB talk.

By now everyone knows we'll land a shinny QB with our 1st pick.

I understand the urgency to catch an immediate starter with the draft pick. The FO has no choice, given the pressure from the fans.

But that's not necessarily the right thing to do. There are TWO guys that are generational talents (Alt and Fashanu) that would be plug-and-play for us.

We sorely need at least one of them.

We should take one of them and start from there. Drafting an elite QB has become a game of roulette.

RR was also a diversity hire.

Nothing bad or ulterior motive here. Just following NFL guidelines.

The new FO must be aware of this.

1 hour ago, Chump Bailey said:

Curious as to why they retained Mayhew. 

DEI

Terrible news. I wish him the best. A Redskins great, no doubt.

I fondly remember a good amount of fun games with Sellers as FB and Stephen Davis barreling down opposing defenses.

That rushing attack was superb. Also, Sellers was a very good pass-catcher.

1 hour ago, ThatNFLChick said:

 

Oh God, not the Kirk stuff again. A guy who is 36, and only won one playoff game with far more pieces around him than we have? And for a large amount of money? Why? 

 

Did anyone watch Quarterback on Netflix? While he said nice things, I don't think he would want to come back to Washington. He said that chapter was closed.

Not only that. With our current O-Line this moves seems suicidal.

KC would not last three games before going to IR.

4 hours ago, spjunkies said:

 

True, but who is this Mark you're referring to? I think you have him confused with Redskins legend, Scott Brunell.

"Maroon and Black" baby 

1 hour ago, Anselmheifer said:

 

Holy ****. Is it just me, or does it look like he is running awkardly, in slow motion in this video? I know that Young was a great athlete, IRL, but this video looks like Sam Howell lucked into a big run. The eras are just different. That is not a Lamar Jackson, Jayden Daniels, Michael Vick type run. 

Older NFL Films like this one were filmed with 35mm cameras at 24fps, like the movies.

That's why they look so "legendary". It's their staple. The cadence of the players moving looks different than reality.

All TV cameras used today in live transmissions work at 60fps (older TV broadcasts were transmitted at 30fps).

That's why old NFL Films look so different.

1 hour ago, OtisDriftwood25 said:

I am starting to like the idea of Fields matched up with Kingsbury. It’s basically a 3 year 60 million dollar deal on the non exclusive franchise tag. Trade back and get some more people that fit the future play style. Worst case we are back in top 5

next year with possibly another first round pick.

Fields is good bc of DJ Moore. He can dismantle an entire defensive plan by himself (96 rec., 1,360 yards, 8TDs, avg. 14.2 ypc)
 

And their TE Kmet had 75 receptions last year for 700 yards.

Those are numbers we can only dream of with our current roster. 

We have zero WRs and TEs in that mold (Terry can't dominate a game like Moore. We all saw that last year) :[

On 2/7/2024 at 4:09 PM, Skinsinparadise said:

 

I was basically saying the same thing.  I just framed the mistake as a good thing -- losing the battle to win the war becuase all these mishaps contributed to Dan selling.  Dan selling is the ultimate victory.

In the long run everything may look like a good thing, including --but not limited-- to my divorce.

1 hour ago, Skinsinparadise said:

 

I agree Dan Snyder's best move is not paying Kirk because it was a plot line among many IMO that likely led to the sale.  Kirk leaving followed by having the worst QBR QB play in the league.  the team mostly sucked.  Not saying losing Kirk was all of it but nothing beats having the worst Qb play in the league if you want to be bad.

 

So for me this move followed by chasing Trent out the door -- in both cases for almost zero compensation -- i do think was one of the many decisions that led to the sale.  If the team was good, i think Dan might have held on some more at a minimum.

More like a huge mistake. KC leaving was a byproduct the power struggle between Scot McCloughan and Bruce Allen.

We all know how that turned out. Bruce backed RGIII, hand-picked by Snyder. Scot wanted to pay big bucks to KC bc the guy had demonstrated he was good to very good at QB.

Arguably, KC went on to have a better career than RGIII. 

In retrospect, yet another mistake by our FO guys.

I expect little of the new HC but the bar left for him is really low.

I'll be a happy camper if we establish the fundamentals of a good D and a respectable running game.

I still can't believe we hired a guy named "Dan Quinn"

Yeah Imma cut off my ties to the season right now.

I have ZERO interest (not even a morbid one) in watching a team coached by someone called "Dan Quinn" that worked for Dallas.

6 hours ago, VRIEL1 said:

I'm pretty sure they had their sights on Johnson. They had to wait until the team was knocked out of the playoffs or end of season. I think Quinn surprised them which is why he got 3 in person interviews. What we don't know is did Quinn impress them so much that they are wanting him tied to they new HC? Also heard a "rumor" Johnson wanted full control of staff and players. Could have been Washington was going to pay him what he wanted but not give him full control so he took his name off the table. Why he didn't go to Seattle? Who knows maybe they were not going to pay him that much? Again, that's a rumor. Or maybe we balked at the price and countered with $10 or $12 mill. And Johnson said no. 

Yes, every indication is they had a crush on Johnson.

But that one guy could easily say "No". I find it incredible the FO did not plan for that scenario.

Now we look like the team no one wants to coach which makes it doubly hard for any respectable coach to come here. 

7 minutes ago, Voice_of_Reason said:

So then the only candidates available first were Belichick, Harbaugh and Vrabel.

 

After Wild Card Weekemd they could have hired Quinn.

 

Are you saying they should have decided not to talk to any of the coaches on the conference championship teams in order to hire a guy first?

 

I get your point but when you factor in timeline, it falls apart.  

Waiting for the guys in the Conference Championships was a rookie mistake.

It made them immediately more powerful than the new GM since they held all the cards.

Those three first guys you mentioned are AAA class. Now you have to go back and beg them to come here or settle for a lesser guy.

I said it from the start: we needed to be the FIRST team to hire a new HC.

The new GM should have had the new HC ready and on his speed-dial. That's his job! To know people in the NFL who work as HC!

Now the situation is quickly becoming a PR fiasco.

The guy from Detroit said FU and now we're SOL?

A good GM should have planned for that and immediatly moved to his second option BEFORE the guy from Detroit talked to the media.

This is PR 101. Otherwise you end up looking like a chump.

On 1/29/2024 at 9:02 PM, ThatNFLChick said:

 

What if they watch film, do all the interviews, talk to everyone and decide they REALLY like JJ McCarthy. He fits Johnson's scheme, he's taken the most snaps under center, etc. 

 

Are you opposed to them trading down to get him?

I'm actually convinced we need to take TWO QBs, a la the Shanny draft that landed us RGIII and Cousins.

Take two guys and your bust rate is reduced by half.

29 minutes ago, NoCalMike said:

 

Funny thing is I wouldn't even take it as an endorsement of Howell as the long term solution if they decided not to draft a QB, only that they don't view the top choices as long term options either.  Like I said, if Peters and his team think one of the QBs available can be that guy eventually, sure draft the guy, but #2 is way to high a pick to pass up elite talent in favor of someone you think might turn into something eventually.  I also understand that it would be the case regardless of who you draft, but I think missing on a QB that high is bigger detriment than any other position because in most cases elite skill position players start to impose their will immediately where as a lot of elite QB's will look up and down their rookie year. 

 

I just think Peter's track record suggests that he sees building a solid roster, then dropping a QB into the mix afterwards as a valid option. 

I doubt the new FO is willing to make the fans suffer through yet another terrible season.

These guys need to come out swinging.

That means drafting the best possible QB and #2. No fancy trades. Just draft a guy to build the roster around.

I think most fans would be very happy with than simple logic, since we'll get to see the future NOW.

Elite talent, as you say, is a very difficult thing to find at the QB level. There's huge error rate.

But, again, the expectations around this new FO have grown so high they "cannot not" deliver a small ray of hope, at the very least.

8 hours ago, DWinzit said:

I am not a big RR or TH guy but would Th have even been in the league without RR? Purdy appears to be a better QB but at the end of the day, doesn't matter, neither are in Washington.

 

I sure hope the new QB decided by the HC and OC are much better than both of those guys.

Let's hope we get our guy finally. TH is an outlier, but Purdy seems like the prototypical "system QB".

We need a QB that also becomes our leader.

9 hours ago, Warhead36 said:

Purdy is average but he fits the Shanny system perfectly. Hes Taylor Heinicke on our team.

You really had to go there huh? LOL

As much as people pile on TH for his weak arm and dubious decision making he at least had the intangibles we see in Purdy.

These guys can literally change the game in a heartbeat, sometimes for the bad.

But hey, we preferred Howell and shipped TH due to fan derision. Another RR victim, if you ask me.