McNabb traded to Redskins

[Rusty Shackleford]

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/redskinsinsider/donovan-mcnabb/mcnabb-traded-to-redskins.html#more

Holy ****. As a Redskins fan, I'm delighted with this move and I'm also going to say that Rush Limbaugh was obviously dead wrong in his criticism of the new signal caller in DC.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

How many years has McNabb got left in him do you reckon Rusty?

My initial thought was that this was a filler and your Redskins would take a QB - possibly your boy Tebow - in the draft to develop behind him. However you gave up your 2nd round pick, which is the earliest you could conceivably consider drafting Tebow, so unless you drop back, he's off the table. Don't think you have a 3rd round pick this year either. Anyway, it's got to be Okung in the first for the 'Skins now if he's still there.

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

How many years has McNabb got left in him do you reckon Rusty?

My initial thought was that this was a filler and your Redskins would take a QB - possibly your boy Tebow - in the draft to develop behind him. However you gave up your 2nd round pick, which is the earliest you could conceivably consider drafting Tebow, so unless you drop back, he's off the table. Don't think you have a 3rd round pick this year either. Anyway, it's got to be Okung in the first for the 'Skins now if he's still there.

I'd like to think that McNabb's got three or four good years left in him, which means he can carry the Skins until his replacement's ready. I don't see Tebow or McCoy being available in the fourth round (in McCoy's case, he may go as high as the first round after an excellent pro day), and there isn't much else out there to get excited about in this year's QB class (Armanti Edwards is probably the next best available after the big four are off the board, and he's too small and too injury prone for my taste). Maybe Coach Shanahan and GM Bruce Allen feel they can keep their tandem of McNabb and Rex Grossman in place long enough to wait for the Huskies' Jake Locker, who looks a better prospect than Bradford or Clausen. They would need to somehow get the first overall pick to get him, but maybe there's a way to make that happen (I doubt it will be through having the poorest record in the NFL after this trade).

There is a horrible rumour going around on the Redskins' message boards that McNabb will be flipped straight away and will be packaged with the Redskins' fourth overall pick to get Bradford away from St Louis. That would be an absolute disaster and I hope it stays in the realm of rumour.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

The 4th, 36th and a late 3rd/early 4th would actually be good value to move up to the top pick.

Personally, I think there is more value in trading down for extra draft picks. That's the way teams like the Pats have built in the past. I think you've got to assume that whilst this year there isn't going to be a cap, that there will be in future and I'm not a fan of the huge contracts you've got to give out to high draft players, who for all their promise, are unproven in the NFL.

 

[loz]

was just about to post this- Eagles fans have never seemed to quite take McNabb to their hearts but there's a lot of concern about Kolb as a starter for next season.