Ok - the reality is this team is going to be owned and managed by Snyder for some time and there will always be some that cannot stand him for whatever reason and that also will not change in the near future.
I just wanted to vent a little because I am one that was excited when I first heard we had someone who was ostensibly a fan and under 35 and he was going to own this franchise.
I felt that would be just the ultimate for a Redskins fan - and I was hooked
We have all seen the result - nothing is going to change - I got my hopes up last year when we drafted 7 players and while it is only a year ago I was hopeful. I really think that we could still see the top 3 become viable players in the NFL. We already have seen what Horton has accomplished.
I was hopeful that in spite of giving up the 2 picks for Taylor (that could just as easily have been a "good" decision for our defense) that we would continue down a cautious building program that would include a combination of adding free agents and trying to acquire as many picks as we could but continuing to operate the whole franchise in a responsible manner.
I understand that adding a Haynesworth is not a fiscal concern nor does it limit anything we want to do as far as adding any more free agents is concerned - my only concern is that we seem to be looking towards our defense when it was obvious after last year that our main issue is scoring points and ensuring this team is able to transition this offense offensively in the near future.
After what we saw last year in Zorn's first year, even I, the eternal optimist, felt that the team was looking at 2 years minimum to get things straightened out so I was a little disapointed that we did not try harder to address the needs on offense or at least prioritize the offensive woes and kicking issues (both punting and goal scoring).
Adding Haynesworth is just more "flash" - sure he will make our defense better but I would like to see these guys applying the same desire to add players to those parts that needed it more - some have asked "well who would you like to add, we can still afford it". I would like to know what efforts were made to get something done - I just do not think there was the attention to trying to make that happen as there was to signing the most expensive defensive player in history - just because Snyder could.
I think that even if Thomas proves to be great and Kelly and Davis become as good as we could hope we still have a lot of other things that have to go right in order to be successful as an offense.
IMO - a good NFL GM would have already been ensuring we have capable back-ups to both our older offensive linemen and our QB - we might get lucky with both Dockery and Jansen but we shouldn't be in this situation and I think we would not be if we had a decent GM.
That is all past - now is what we are dealing with.
IMO, we need to be more patient and just add players that we know will help and make the whole team better - I think Dockery and Hall will do that but we are taking a fairly big risk in hoping that Fat Albert is a lot more healthy than he has looked.
I do not begrudge Fat Albert for signing a huge contract - I just would rather sign guys that want to make a team better and get paid well for it rather than someone who will
only go to a team who will pay him what he thinks he's worth and hope it works out - I know there were other teams that thought he was worth the money too and it may work out, but to me it was just Snyder making a splash and Fat Albert kind of saying "show me the money"
We keep building on hopes and wishes and the past 10 years have not paid off very well with that sort of mindset.
I hope that everything we need to happen happens because if one little part of the equation does not work we will have to start again when we could be a year into getting ready for the future.
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