Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Monday, March 5, 2012
Just Say No to Peyton
I've talked to everyone about this. The diehards, the faiweather (yes, even the fairweather, that is how much I love to talk about the Redskins). I've listened to the commentary and the speculation, the reports on the surgeries and the assessments of his arm strength. And while some people are willing to do anything for a win - mortgage our future, spend conspicuously, whatever it takes - I am not. I am willing to do those things for long-term gain, but the Redskins need major surgery, not just a bandaid.
Brining Peyton Manning to Washington would be a bandaid, a stop-gap measure to tide us over until the real solution presents itself.
First and foremost, I do not believe Peyton is, or ever will be, healthy enough to captain a team with the precision and force that have made him a hall of fame caliber QB.
Second, our O-line isn't tough enough to protect Peyton the way he needs to be protected. One missed block and one bad hit puts us right back where we started. I mean, just think about playing against JPP twice a season!
Lastly, I don't know what the cost of acquiring Peyton might be, but it is money and draft picks that are far better spent on more and younger players.
People ask me how I can possibly not want to see one of the game's greats in the Burgundy and Gold. It is quite simple - we have a history of bringing in big names (see McNabb, Haynesworth, J. Taylor, D. Sanders, to name a few) and providing them a team with which to play the least inspired football of their careers. Sure, it turned out that McNabb and Haynesworth were both lazy putzes, but it took a stint in Washington to discover it.
I'm not calling Peyton a putz, I'm just asking for a more reasoned approach from now on.
Stop the insanity. Bring me RG3 the Younger.
More on that later.
Brining Peyton Manning to Washington would be a bandaid, a stop-gap measure to tide us over until the real solution presents itself.
First and foremost, I do not believe Peyton is, or ever will be, healthy enough to captain a team with the precision and force that have made him a hall of fame caliber QB.
Second, our O-line isn't tough enough to protect Peyton the way he needs to be protected. One missed block and one bad hit puts us right back where we started. I mean, just think about playing against JPP twice a season!
Lastly, I don't know what the cost of acquiring Peyton might be, but it is money and draft picks that are far better spent on more and younger players.
People ask me how I can possibly not want to see one of the game's greats in the Burgundy and Gold. It is quite simple - we have a history of bringing in big names (see McNabb, Haynesworth, J. Taylor, D. Sanders, to name a few) and providing them a team with which to play the least inspired football of their careers. Sure, it turned out that McNabb and Haynesworth were both lazy putzes, but it took a stint in Washington to discover it.
I'm not calling Peyton a putz, I'm just asking for a more reasoned approach from now on.
Stop the insanity. Bring me RG3 the Younger.
More on that later.
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