Nivek wrote:I'd trade him, no problem. I didn't like it when they traded for him -- thought he was the wrong guy to bring in for a rebuild considering age, contract, overall production and health. I'm not saying "you're rich, suck it up" -- I'm pointing out the hypocrisy of his criticism.
I think the best thing for the team would be to trade him. They shouldn't have brought him to DC in the first place.
Agreed and i said as much during last march. Washington D.C. teams just seem allergic to reality beyond the Caps and the Shannyskins.
When the Caps imploded after the Jagr signing they sold off all assets, never traded for veterans to artificially pump up the W-L record, and stunk out loud from basically '03-'07. Along the way they got Ovy, Backs, and Alzner with their top draft picks, and numerous steals in the late first and early 2nd round once they were competitive.
When Shanny arrived I am positive he told snyder, "hands off, don't touch anything, Im gonna get a stop gap vet QB, so I can evaluate the playmakers we do have, and figure out who can stay and who can't, while I gut the team and build a team with chemistry work ethics, and intelligence". He botched the vet QB acquisition (and said as much at the time, I freaking hated the McNabb deal, and pointed to his decline from '05-'08 as evidence that he was falling apart due to being an athletic QB who took too many hits, his value artificially went up when the eagles FO finally landed him the playmakers he needed but years too late (McCoy, Jackson, Celek, and Maclin), and so his stats perked up briefly, before the roof caved in when we landed him at age 32ish or 33 and by then we had neither the playmakers to camouflage his decline, nor the QB the eagles had in his prime), but he stuck with his plan, gutting the team of all cancers, picking up a handful of picks for Jason Campbell, McNabb, and Haynesworth, and slowly acquiring Shanny players. With his top picks, much like GMGM, he nailed it, first silverback, passing on a costly trade up for Bradford, passing on QB's he gave bad grades (Gabbert, and Ponder), and landing Kerrigan as the defensive piece, and this year RG3.
Both GMGM, and Shanny were genius, committing to blowing it up properly, sticking with the strategy for the long term good of the franchise, and getting ownership backing to do so. Unfortunately in DC, EG pulled the wool over Ted's, eyes, or they're just both idiots, while GMGM isn't. Not sure the scenario but EG's moves have consistently built built around chronic short cuts to inflate the W-L record and disguise the rot at the core of the franchise, whether it was stupid resignings, horrible trades, or horrible draft day decisions, he managed the triple crown of incompetent management, failing to address reality with smart fiscal and long term decisions (vet resignings and '09 draft trade), horrible draft day decisionmaking (obsessing with Vesely when elite difference makers were available in a trade up '11), and horrendous rebuild trades, a speciality of Norv in DC, in which the incompetent GM makes trades to disguise his own ineptitude by artificially improving the record with vets (Nene, Okariza acquisitions).
He litteraly covered every base of incompetent general management from 2009-2012. That's how screwed this team was. Stupid signings (Antawn, DBrick, Arenas and his one knee), stupid picks (Vesely, Singleton over Faried, 'Satoransky), stupid trades to artificially inflate W-L record for antzy owner-'09 Rubio and Curry aren't any good compared to Mike Miller deal, then because once wasn't enough, the Nene deal, and just in case the homers didn't notice, the grand mal stupidity of the Okariza trade.
GM's would usually get fired for one of those trades, EG did three of them in 3 years, 3 horrible contracts, and multiple horrible picks AND HE'S STILL HERE?!?!?!?!