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My good friend who is a Rams fans said, " you guys DESTROYED Bradford"

Yeah, we kinda did knock him around....hahaha

tribeofjudah wrote:

Red_One43 wrote:

absinthe1023 wrote:

Red_One43 wrote:

chiefhog44 wrote:3-1. top of the division. Bye week and then the Eagles. Good position to be in. Love Kerrigan man. Every week, this guy produces. I'm buying my daughters his jersey tonight. I officially have a man crush

Buying a Kerrigan jersey is pretty much risk free. He will be here for a long, long time, because he will become one of the faces of this franchise.

Unless he's packaged with this year's first round pick in order to move up and get a QB

Surely, you jest!

Them are dollar signs on that Kerrigan guy! Jersey sales, posters, fan clubs, people in the seats!

Kerrigan ain't goin' nowhere fast but stayin' put in Ol' DC.

1023....what are YOU smokin...??? Kerrigan is best thing since...ahh ahh sliced bread.

That's what I'm saying. He's an extremely valuable commodity, and not just to the Redskins

Deadskins wrote:

absinthe1023 wrote:

Red_One43 wrote:

absinthe1023 wrote:

Red_One43 wrote:

chiefhog44 wrote:3-1. top of the division. Bye week and then the Eagles. Good position to be in. Love Kerrigan man. Every week, this guy produces. I'm buying my daughters his jersey tonight. I officially have a man crush

Buying a Kerrigan jersey is pretty much risk free. He will be here for a long, long time, because he will become one of the faces of this franchise.

Unless he's packaged with this year's first round pick in order to move up and get a QB

Surely, you jest!

Them are dollar signs on that Kerrigan guy! Jersey sales, posters, fan clubs, people in the seats!

Kerrigan ain't goin' nowhere fast but stayin' put in Ol' DC.

Would you rather have Kerrigan and a mid-first round pick, or the number one overall pick and the ability to draft Andrew Luck (or the QB of your choice)?

Who let RR56 back in here?

Contribute to the thread, don't just make a reactionary comment and try to stir everyone up.

My posts are not about tanking, how bad the Redskins suck, or generalized trolling such as RR56 engaged in.
I (and many others, especially after Rex's performance today) agree with him on one thing only: the Redskins need an elite QB to become a consistent championship threat.

There are several potential elite QBs in the upcoming draft. I was curious as to what other board members thought was the best way to procure one of these players given that the Redskins likely will not have an early first round choice.

Chris Luva Luva wrote:Man...

I'm fine with Rex for now but he's just an idiot, plain and simple.

Only because I don't think that Beck is any better, (but it would be nice to see for myself) I agree with this. Just hold on for next year and get ready for a lot of games like this. The talent up front and all other skill possitions are in place for this team to be able to score big with an above average qb, but rex is below average.

absinthe1023 wrote:Contribute to the thread, don't just make a reactionary comment and try to stir everyone up.

absinthe1023 wrote:

Red_One43 wrote:

absinthe1023 wrote:

Red_One43 wrote:

chiefhog44 wrote:3-1. top of the division. Bye week and then the Eagles. Good position to be in. Love Kerrigan man. Every week, this guy produces. I'm buying my daughters his jersey tonight. I officially have a man crush

Buying a Kerrigan jersey is pretty much risk free. He will be here for a long, long time, because he will become one of the faces of this franchise.

Unless he's packaged with this year's first round pick in order to move up and get a QB

Surely, you jest!

Them are dollar signs on that Kerrigan guy! Jersey sales, posters, fan clubs, people in the seats!

Kerrigan ain't goin' nowhere fast but stayin' put in Ol' DC.

Would you rather have Kerrigan and a mid-first round pick, or the number one overall pick and the ability to draft Andrew Luck (or the QB of your choice)?

Kerrigan and the Mid first rounder. You are aware that there are QBs coming out of college this year other than Andrew Luck, right?

Good Rex + Bad Rex = Same Rex

Good enough to make us win some close games, and bad enough and to make us forget everything good he did before.

He is a care-taker while we acquire our franchise QB. But I am not in a desperate rush to spend the house of draft picks to get the top rated QB in next year's Draft.

Patience and and analyses may help us recruit a very good one with discipline while filling several other gaps in the roster.

No Luck? It does not matter. Most of the great QBs in the NFL were not the FIRST pick in the FIRST round of a draft.

As I turned off the TV last night I had to admit that Rex Grossman is a better QB than Mark Sanchez. We could be in a worse position.

Burgundy&Wha? wrote:As I turned off the TV last night I had to admit that Rex Grossman is a better QB than Mark Sanchez. We could be in a worse position.

I disagree.

Mak was playing against the best defense in the NFL without his starting Center. Rex was playing against one of the the worst defenses in the NFL and probably the worst secondary with most starters on IR.

I would take Mark over Rex any day THIS season. I am not sure that Rex will finish the season as the starter QB of our team. Some people in and outside of the organization are already talking about it and I would not be surprised if it happened.

Timing is everything in this game. So, I do not know when is the best time to do a change. I leave that to those who have more information and knowledge about this situation. I am not one who thinks I know when is the best time to do this. But I would not be surprised if it happens befoe the end of the season.

In any event, I do not see Rex as the starting QB for us next season.

We all know the situation with the QB and this past game just confirms that we need a good QB - we'll get one next year and I'll guarantee that if the one available in the first round is not EXACTLY who these guys want they will not reach on the QB pick


We will become a better franchise by adding players that fit what we need not letting guys go - dumb & dumber did that

btw - the defense looked pretty solid again

the offense needs help at many places, but the RB by committee deal works for me - let Hightower start, whatever Kyle & Mike want



we need to let Bruce & Mike continue to build here and we will do that by adding players not 'using' or losing them

emoses14 wrote:

absinthe1023 wrote:

Red_One43 wrote:

absinthe1023 wrote:

Red_One43 wrote:

chiefhog44 wrote:3-1. top of the division. Bye week and then the Eagles. Good position to be in. Love Kerrigan man. Every week, this guy produces. I'm buying my daughters his jersey tonight. I officially have a man crush

Buying a Kerrigan jersey is pretty much risk free. He will be here for a long, long time, because he will become one of the faces of this franchise.

Unless he's packaged with this year's first round pick in order to move up and get a QB

Surely, you jest!

Them are dollar signs on that Kerrigan guy! Jersey sales, posters, fan clubs, people in the seats!

Kerrigan ain't goin' nowhere fast but stayin' put in Ol' DC.

Would you rather have Kerrigan and a mid-first round pick, or the number one overall pick and the ability to draft Andrew Luck (or the QB of your choice)?

Kerrigan and the Mid first rounder. You are aware that there are QBs coming out of college this year other than Andrew Luck, right?

You are aware that I wrote "Andrew Luck (or the QB of your choice)", right? Please read and comprehend before making a snide offhand comment.

For example, if you think the best QB coming out this year is Kellen Moore, then contribute to the thread by saying "I think the Redskins should draft Kellen Moore with a third round pick."
My point was to address the community's thoughts on how the Redskins would approach obtaining an elite QB (Luck or anyone else), and was not designed to ONLY speculate about ways to obtain the first pick and draft Luck.

absinthe1023 wrote:

emoses14 wrote:

absinthe1023 wrote:

Red_One43 wrote:

absinthe1023 wrote:

Red_One43 wrote:

chiefhog44 wrote:3-1. top of the division. Bye week and then the Eagles. Good position to be in. Love Kerrigan man. Every week, this guy produces. I'm buying my daughters his jersey tonight. I officially have a man crush

Buying a Kerrigan jersey is pretty much risk free. He will be here for a long, long time, because he will become one of the faces of this franchise.

Unless he's packaged with this year's first round pick in order to move up and get a QB

Surely, you jest!

Them are dollar signs on that Kerrigan guy! Jersey sales, posters, fan clubs, people in the seats!

Kerrigan ain't goin' nowhere fast but stayin' put in Ol' DC.

Would you rather have Kerrigan and a mid-first round pick, or the number one overall pick and the ability to draft Andrew Luck (or the QB of your choice)?

Kerrigan and the Mid first rounder. You are aware that there are QBs coming out of college this year other than Andrew Luck, right?

You are aware that I wrote "Andrew Luck (or the QB of your choice)", right? Please read and comprehend before making a snide offhand comment.

For example, if you think the best QB coming out this year is Kellen Moore, then contribute to the thread by saying "I think the Redskins should draft Kellen Moore with a third round pick."
My point was to address the community's thoughts on how the Redskins would approach obtaining an elite QB (Luck or anyone else), and was not designed to ONLY speculate about ways to obtain the first pick and draft Luck.

Nope, I missed that parenthetical, my bad. But aside from missing the words (which is different than not comprehending, its not seeing), I answered your "either or" question, first. Then I made the comment that offended you so.

Now, you're ass wrong about your own point (how does one fail to comprehend their own post?) . Politely discontinue lashing out at others (me)for answering the question you actually posed, rather than the one you meant to write. It should give you the time to comprehend your own damn post a little better. You said:

absinthe1023 wrote:Would you rather have Kerrigan and a mid-first round pick, or the number one overall pick and the ability to draft Andrew Luck (or the QB of your choice)?

In the future, please read and comprehend before you purport to condescend.

What you wrote actually WAS speculating on what to do with THE NUMBER ONE OVERALL pick. You know, 'cause that's what you said. Now, had you actually written "how do you propose we get whichever quarterback of your choice? I think we should package Kerrigan and our #1 for the #1 overall and Luck", after you posed your initial "either or" question; you would have been addressing the community 's thoughts on obtaining an elite QB. And, in response, I would have added, right after my snarky comment, "Its too early to know which teams are going to suck worse than us, cause they won't all need qbs, nor how the rest of the college year shakes out, but right now I'd be fine with any of Matt Barkely, Landry Jones, or Robert Griffith III, or either Russell Wilson (Wisconsin)or Brandon Weeden (OKST) (if we don't have a high enough round 1 pick)."

To answer your hypothetical post in response to the question you didn't ask, I think kellen Moore is worth a look as he's been running the west coast offense, sort of, for a while now. But something about him remindes of Colt Brennan. Which is not a good thing. So if we take him in the second after drafting a stud CB (for instance Tyrann Mathieu (LSU) in the first ) then I think that would work.

emoses14 wrote:

absinthe1023 wrote:

emoses14 wrote:

absinthe1023 wrote:

Red_One43 wrote:

absinthe1023 wrote:

Red_One43 wrote:

chiefhog44 wrote:3-1. top of the division. Bye week and then the Eagles. Good position to be in. Love Kerrigan man. Every week, this guy produces. I'm buying my daughters his jersey tonight. I officially have a man crush

Buying a Kerrigan jersey is pretty much risk free. He will be here for a long, long time, because he will become one of the faces of this franchise.

Unless he's packaged with this year's first round pick in order to move up and get a QB

Surely, you jest!

Them are dollar signs on that Kerrigan guy! Jersey sales, posters, fan clubs, people in the seats!

Kerrigan ain't goin' nowhere fast but stayin' put in Ol' DC.

Would you rather have Kerrigan and a mid-first round pick, or the number one overall pick and the ability to draft Andrew Luck (or the QB of your choice)?

Kerrigan and the Mid first rounder. You are aware that there are QBs coming out of college this year other than Andrew Luck, right?

You are aware that I wrote "Andrew Luck (or the QB of your choice)", right? Please read and comprehend before making a snide offhand comment.

For example, if you think the best QB coming out this year is Kellen Moore, then contribute to the thread by saying "I think the Redskins should draft Kellen Moore with a third round pick."
My point was to address the community's thoughts on how the Redskins would approach obtaining an elite QB (Luck or anyone else), and was not designed to ONLY speculate about ways to obtain the first pick and draft Luck.

Nope, I missed that parenthetical, my bad. But aside from missing the words (which is different than not comprehending, its not seeing), I answered your "either or" question, first. Then I made the comment that offended you so.

Now, you're ass wrong about your own point (how does one fail to comprehend their own post?) . Politely discontinue lashing out at others (me)for answering the question you actually posed, rather than the one you meant to write. It should give you the time to comprehend your own damn post a little better. You said:

absinthe1023 wrote:Would you rather have Kerrigan and a mid-first round pick, or the number one overall pick and the ability to draft Andrew Luck (or the QB of your choice)?

In the future, please read and comprehend before you purport to condescend.

What you wrote actually WAS speculating on what to do with THE NUMBER ONE OVERALL pick. You know, 'cause that's what you said. Now, had you actually written "how do you propose we get whichever quarterback of your choice? I think we should package Kerrigan and our #1 for the #1 overall and Luck", after you posed your initial "either or" question; you would have been addressing the community 's thoughts on obtaining an elite QB. And, in response, I would have added, right after my snarky comment, "Its too early to know which teams are going to suck worse than us, cause they won't all need qbs, nor how the rest of the college year shakes out, but right now I'd be fine with any of Matt Barkely, Landry Jones, or Robert Griffith III, or either Russell Wilson (Wisconsin)or Brandon Weeden (OKST) (if we don't have a high enough round 1 pick)."

To answer your hypothetical post in response to the question you didn't ask, I think kellen Moore is worth a look as he's been running the west coast offense, sort of, for a while now. But something about him remindes of Colt Brennan. Which is not a good thing. So if we take him in the second after drafting a stud CB (for instance Tyrann Mathieu (LSU) in the first ) then I think that would work.

I did make a mistake in my initial post. I did reference the number one overall pick, but that was in the context of the preceding post regarding Kerrigan's value. Obviously, any discussion of a trade of Kerrigan as part of a package would probably HAVE to include the number one overall pick to make it worth the Redskin's while to consider it. I did not, however, mean to limit the discussion to ways to obtain the first overall pick.

What I tried to do, and obviously failed at, was to leave the door open for discussion on what it would take to obtain the QB of choice for any subsequent poster, not just Luck and not just the number one overall pick.

My mistake, therefore, was thinking that I could generate discussion on a much broader point by having subsequent posters expand upon the material that I presented rather than simply reacting negatively to the first sentence that offends them.

I know that the board is full of posts that do add to and expand the original discussion. Unfortunately, few of those posts have been added to this thread. I admit my fault in seeking rational discourse on an internet forum. I will now return to my usual policy of reading rather than posting.

absinthe1023 wrote:

emoses14 wrote:

absinthe1023 wrote:

emoses14 wrote:

absinthe1023 wrote:

Red_One43 wrote:

absinthe1023 wrote:

Red_One43 wrote:

chiefhog44 wrote:3-1. top of the division. Bye week and then the Eagles. Good position to be in. Love Kerrigan man. Every week, this guy produces. I'm buying my daughters his jersey tonight. I officially have a man crush

Buying a Kerrigan jersey is pretty much risk free. He will be here for a long, long time, because he will become one of the faces of this franchise.

Unless he's packaged with this year's first round pick in order to move up and get a QB

Surely, you jest!

Them are dollar signs on that Kerrigan guy! Jersey sales, posters, fan clubs, people in the seats!

Kerrigan ain't goin' nowhere fast but stayin' put in Ol' DC.

Would you rather have Kerrigan and a mid-first round pick, or the number one overall pick and the ability to draft Andrew Luck (or the QB of your choice)?

Kerrigan and the Mid first rounder. You are aware that there are QBs coming out of college this year other than Andrew Luck, right?

You are aware that I wrote "Andrew Luck (or the QB of your choice)", right? Please read and comprehend before making a snide offhand comment.

For example, if you think the best QB coming out this year is Kellen Moore, then contribute to the thread by saying "I think the Redskins should draft Kellen Moore with a third round pick."
My point was to address the community's thoughts on how the Redskins would approach obtaining an elite QB (Luck or anyone else), and was not designed to ONLY speculate about ways to obtain the first pick and draft Luck.

Nope, I missed that parenthetical, my bad. But aside from missing the words (which is different than not comprehending, its not seeing), I answered your "either or" question, first. Then I made the comment that offended you so.

Now, you're ass wrong about your own point (how does one fail to comprehend their own post?) . Politely discontinue lashing out at others (me)for answering the question you actually posed, rather than the one you meant to write. It should give you the time to comprehend your own damn post a little better. You said:

absinthe1023 wrote:Would you rather have Kerrigan and a mid-first round pick, or the number one overall pick and the ability to draft Andrew Luck (or the QB of your choice)?

In the future, please read and comprehend before you purport to condescend.

What you wrote actually WAS speculating on what to do with THE NUMBER ONE OVERALL pick. You know, 'cause that's what you said. Now, had you actually written "how do you propose we get whichever quarterback of your choice? I think we should package Kerrigan and our #1 for the #1 overall and Luck", after you posed your initial "either or" question; you would have been addressing the community 's thoughts on obtaining an elite QB. And, in response, I would have added, right after my snarky comment, "Its too early to know which teams are going to suck worse than us, cause they won't all need qbs, nor how the rest of the college year shakes out, but right now I'd be fine with any of Matt Barkely, Landry Jones, or Robert Griffith III, or either Russell Wilson (Wisconsin)or Brandon Weeden (OKST) (if we don't have a high enough round 1 pick)."

To answer your hypothetical post in response to the question you didn't ask, I think kellen Moore is worth a look as he's been running the west coast offense, sort of, for a while now. But something about him remindes of Colt Brennan. Which is not a good thing. So if we take him in the second after drafting a stud CB (for instance Tyrann Mathieu (LSU) in the first ) then I think that would work.

I did make a mistake in my initial post. I did reference the number one overall pick, but that was in the context of the preceding post regarding Kerrigan's value. Obviously, any discussion of a trade of Kerrigan as part of a package would probably HAVE to include the number one overall pick to make it worth the Redskin's while to consider it. I did not, however, mean to limit the discussion to ways to obtain the first overall pick.

What I tried to do, and obviously failed at, was to leave the door open for discussion on what it would take to obtain the QB of choice for any subsequent poster, not just Luck and not just the number one overall pick.

My mistake, therefore, was thinking that I could generate discussion on a much broader point by having subsequent posters expand upon the material that I presented rather than simply reacting negatively to the first sentence that offends them.

I know that the board is full of posts that do add to and expand the original discussion. Unfortunately, few of those posts have been added to this thread. I admit my fault in seeking rational discourse on an internet forum. I will now return to my usual policy of reading rather than posting.

No, your mistake was using my admittedly snarky comment as a springboard to then belittle me AND expecting me not to respond to that. I highly doubt you feel that rational discourse can not be had on an internet forum in general, and this one in particular. But we've now gotten way off topic, so I'll drop it altogether and repost the substantive portion of my prior post as a means of putting it back on track:

emoses14 wrote:Its too early to know which teams are going to suck worse than us, cause they won't all need qbs, nor how the rest of the college year shakes out, but right now I'd be fine with any of Matt Barkely, Landry Jones, or Robert Griffith III, or either Russell Wilson (Wisconsin)or Brandon Weeden (OKST) (if we don't have a high enough round 1 pick).

I think kellen Moore is worth a look as he's been running the west coast offense, sort of, for a while now. But something about him remindes of Colt Brennan. Which is not a good thing. So if we take him in the second after drafting a stud CB (for instance Tyrann Mathieu (LSU) in the first ) then I think that would work.

I did expect a response, and I think "belittle" is too strong a word to characterize my response. Sorry if it came off that harshly, I meant no personal offense and apologize if any was taken.

Regarding the QB options you mentioned, I like Moore the most right now, particularly as a value pick (not a first rounder). He just seems to have the intagibles that make an NFL QB, but may not really have an NFL body given the punishment that QBs take these days.
I am intrigued by Wilson, but his O line gives him an almost unfair advantage in the college ranks.
I need to watch Griffin more, but durability will obviously be an issue with his style of play. He may also not be the best fit for Kyle's system.
Weeden may be a system guy but remains interesting nonetheless. Does he have the intangibles?
I'm not at all sold on Landry as an NFL QB, but with his pedigree he's the kind of player that will be drafted way too high by somebody.
Barkley is the type of player that probably has GMs petrified. I see him as either a franchise QB or a total bust in the NFL, with no in between.

chiefhog44 wrote:

absinthe1023 wrote:

Red_One43 wrote:

absinthe1023 wrote:

Red_One43 wrote:

chiefhog44 wrote:3-1. top of the division. Bye week and then the Eagles. Good position to be in. Love Kerrigan man. Every week, this guy produces. I'm buying my daughters his jersey tonight. I officially have a man crush

Buying a Kerrigan jersey is pretty much risk free. He will be here for a long, long time, because he will become one of the faces of this franchise.

Unless he's packaged with this year's first round pick in order to move up and get a QB

Surely, you jest!

Them are dollar signs on that Kerrigan guy! Jersey sales, posters, fan clubs,
people in the seats!

Kerrigan ain't goin' nowhere fast but stayin' put in Ol' DC.

Would you rather have Kerrigan and a mid-first round pick, or the number
one overall pick and the ability to draft Andrew Luck (or the QB of your
choice)?

I would like a third choice to get Luck. I'd do anyone except Williams on offense and no one except Mccintosh or Carriker on D.

Well if that is the case, then you would have to give up quite a few draft picks. Hopefully, the FO has learned that ADDING draft picks -- not giving multiple picks for an aging vet or one higher pick -- leads to success (as long as you don't have a fool GM like Vinny).

While I would love to pick up a top QB in the upcoming draft, I would be very upset if we gave up draft picks in the process. Honestly, haven't we learned from our experiences over the past decade or so that giving up picks (while watching teams who draft well win SBs) just doesn't work???? Besides, we have other positions that need upgrading (e.g. at least 3 positions on the OL).

We may not need Andrew Luck to win a SB. I am sure a high quality QB will land to us in this draft or the next. Remember -- while we are 3-1, there are still 12 more games left to be played this year. We don't need to mortgage our team or future to get a quality QB.

Trade Hightower back to the cards for Kold and a third or for their first and draft RG 111! I'm kidding- well kind of at least a little

The way I see it; we can piss and moan about how we "almost" lost to the Rams and "almost" lost to the Cardinals, but we won.

We're 3-1. That's not bad for an 8-8 team (or worse depending upon who you read).

After some many years of talking about how we "almost" won let's just enjoy the fact that we ACTUALLY won for a change.

We'll have plenty of time to bemoan our losses when we start losing.

Bob 0119 wrote:The way I see it; we can piss and moan about how we "almost" lost to the Rams and "almost" lost to the Cardinals, but we won.

We're 3-1. That's not bad for an 8-8 team (or worse depending upon who you read).

After some many years of talking about how we "almost" won let's just enjoy the fact that we ACTUALLY won for a change.

We'll have plenty of time to bemoan our losses when we start losing.

absinthe1023 wrote:I know that the board is full of posts that do NOT add to and EXPAND the original thread discussion. Unfortunately, a few of those posts have been added to this thread. I admit my fault in seeking rational discourse on an internet forum. I will now return to my usual policy of reading rather than posting.

I was wondering when someone would realize what is going on here

these posts that people just love to add onto that are not on topic ARE V FRUSTRATING



we are 3-1 and looking at a few upcoming games we could also manage to pull out a win

HOW GREAT IS THIS

I will be enjoying watching the Iggles collapse during the bye week.

Travelled down to the game over the weekend, had a great time!

Please to see a lot of Skins fans at the game, we were well represented.

Couple of observations...

Rams were terrible, to think they are a pro team is embarassing. So far off on many of their plays, very poorly coached. Bradford is decent and Jackson is a good back but they play like they just met each other. The fans are really down on the team as well.

Better than last year when we basically came into St Louis and did a Landry on the field

A good team at 17-0 would have just closed the game out but we gave them all kinds of chances to get back in, which also really got the crowd back into it.

The two hits on the punt returns which resulted in penalties, if the guy does not call fair catch, he has the ball in hand, is it not the idea to bury him? 2nd one was a helmet to helmet hit which is fair enough but if we had hit him between the numbers would it still have been a penalty?

Lastly, it was great to see the Skins win. Just getting to see them live is a thrill but its better when we win!

HAIL to the REDSKINS!

I don't think Orakpo is getting enough credit for the dominant day he had on Sunday, despite the TD he gave up to Jackson. In addition to the 1.5 other sacks he had, it looks as though the fourth quarter stand simply doesn't happen without him:

http://www.realredskins.com/rich-tandle ... -time.html

On first down, Bradford dropped back seven steps and for a moment it looked like he had a nice pocket. But Orakpo kept on pushing Rams left tackle Rodger Saffold back and as Bradford started to throw, Orakpo got a hand on his left shoulder and turned him enough to cause the pass to bounce to the turf at about the six.

. . .

Bradford took the shotgun snap and took a few steps back as the Redskins rushed four. From his right end position, Stephen Bowen put an inside move on Saffold. Orakpo, who had come rushing up the middle, went outside and knocked Saffold to the ground. Bowen had a clear path to Bradford and he took him down for a loss of 10 to set up third and 25

Third and long was no time to relax. Bradford’s touchdown pass to Jackson came on third and 15. This time, however, Bradford had no chance. He took the shotgun snap and before he had time to look around, Orakpo was on him.

Moreover, on the play that everyone is rightfully lauding Kerrigan for, its Orakpo that actually makes the play possible:

http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-game-high ... the-fumble

Note the linebacker smacking Bradford on the shoulder, making him think he's about to get sacked, turn and pull the ball down. . . which is when Kerrigan lowers the boom!