Post#550 » by The Consiglieri » Sun Feb 13, 2011 7:45 pm
I don't understand the Cousins obsession. There are a lot of draft days that pain us as fans. When we know our team completely screwed the pooch. In 2005 I was infuriated when the caps were hosed at what would have been a likely top 3 pick because of the lockout, I was also aggravated when the caps, and at the same time the boulez started drafting those low ceiling, fits a role type nightmares that you just know won't make a dent in the negative future, present, and past we've all experienced. I need not mention the redskins, as we are all aware that we've specialized in this tactic, Jason Campbell and Carlos Rogers instead of Aaron Rodgers (I know Campbell was taken after Rodgers, I also know we were fixated on the mediocrity, and not on Rodgers), Laron Landry when we already had Sean Taylor instead of Adrian Peterson, or Patrick Willis, when we badly needed LB help, and he was clearly one of the best LB prospects in years. Decades of stupidity like that now litters the redskins landscape (hell, we're the only franchise on the planet that hasn't drafted and developed a franchise QB since before World War II)
Cousin's was not one of these instances. The Wizards had flushed out (in bad trades of course, the teams raison d'etre) a bad atmosphere a decade earlier, and were now in the midst of an even worse flushing involving pampered underperforming big money players and a gun controversy. In what planet in what solar system in what galaxy, in what universe was it ever going to be possible that the team right after only half-addressing these issues would draft one of the biggest "bad word of mouth" reputations in a decade or more?
It's impossible to imagine that would have ever been considered and that was quite reasonable. Cousins was not going to be drafted, no way and no how. Not with what happened in '09-'10, not with Arenas still being around, not with Blatche have as bad and possibly a worse reputation in league circles than Cousins himself, and McGee not exactly making people happy either.
No freaking chance.
As for Wall struggling against everyone. He got injured, and he's surrounded by a garbage roster, only one team in the league has a worse roster than us. There's a reason he was as highly evaluated as he was, he is special and is going to be special for us. He isn't what he is now, he is what we saw that first week, a ton of potential and a ton to learn and a ton of talent when healthy. Does Cousin have a higher ceiling? Probably. Is he probably gonna play on quite a few teams in his career? Almost certainly. Is he going to repeatedly wear out his welcome? Probably. The whole reason you guys are speculating about trading for him is for the same reason we all loved him but didnt draft him. Is it possible Sacramento is already sick of dealing with him and would deal him? Think about that for a second.
We drafted the right guy.
If we could trade for Cousins, I'd do it in a second, but I'd still rather have Wall than Cousins every day of the week and the cliche'd twice on sunday.
