Ok Now I Am Bugging Out

That giant sucking sound is the breath of inevitability

Update Friday 4pm, Tony Brown at Hog Heaven notes that the entire Redskins brain trust, owner Dan Snyder, shadow general manager Vinny Cerrato and head coach Jim Zorn will be on state controlled media ESPN 980 at 5pm ET, former Redskin Rick Doc Walker will be hosting, Tony helpfully posted up ten questions he hopes but doubts Rick will ask. Redskins DC local fans get to a radio and tune in to AM 980, FM 94.3 or FM 92.7. Exiled Redskins fans go here and click Listen Live at left to stream it.

Inside of one day conventional wisdom appears to be turning current Redskins quarterback Jason Campbell out on his ass and turning former USC quarterback and blue chip draft prospect Mark Sanchez into the Redskins 2009 signal caller. Already there is at least one prospective home for Jason, with the New York Jets.

I am gape mouthed at how fast this has happened and hope in my football heart that this is all a bad dream and that the Redskins will select a tackle in tomorrow's first round in commitment to their quarterback of the future Jason Campbell.

On reading my previous post, reader Jimmy G speculates that, now with tight end Tony Gonzales shipped out from Kansas City to Atlanta, maybe a deal could be in the works to send Redskins Pro Bowl tight end Chris Cooley and the number thirteen pick to the Chiefs for the Chiefs' number three pick. Plausibility factor: well it is Scott Pioli in Kansas City so anything is plausible.

Now fold this in: Tony Brown over at Hog Heaven posted up on the Jason Campbell wants a trade story and in it he notes Seattle has expressed an interest in Mark Sanchez as an eventual replacement for Matt Hasselback.

Seattle has the fourth pick. Could Seattle be head faking an interest in Mark to try and scoop up a sweaty handful of Dan Snyder's draft picks?

Suddenly raises the plausibility factor for the Kansas City speculation. Scott could cock block the team under him in the draft and dress the fresh wound in the Chiefs offense with Tony Gonzales' departure, all while amassing more, more I say draft picks mwahahahahaaaa!!!!!

Is Dan Snyder the drunken lord at the feast, fat fingers tossing gold coins to any jester or courtesan at his ear?

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A sample of reaction in real time because whatever happens tomorrow and this season I want to remember what was being said right now.

Curly R reader Gabe: Why [do Redskins fans have to keep going through this]? Because we have the second-least competent owner in the league.

I mean, we're even behind the Browns and the Cardinals now. (ed. note: I presume Al Davis is the worst according to Gabe. -Ben)

Hog Heaven reader TANK MCNAMARA: please, just kill me now.

Redskins Insider reader jwcallahan91 (no links to individual comments on RI): ...The real story is this front office making the same mistakes over and over. Campbell is not the answer @ QB, however they have MUCH more pressing needs @ DE, OL, LB and making a trade for a guy that has started 16 games and thrown under 500 passes in his career is insane. Stay meduim and trade back, turn the 13th pick into 2 2nd's. If they trade 2 1st's @ this yrs 3rd for sanchez there should be riots @ redskin park.

Redskins Insider reader scampbell1975: [on Jason Campbell's demand for a trade if Mark Sanchez is picked] Good for him. It's about time he showed some nuts. He's been treated like sh!t. Of course it is just business, but he's taken this stuff with class.

Redskins Insider reader sikid31: wow. good for you JC. if the FO takes Sanchez i'm requesting a trade too. enough is enough.

Redskins Insider reader jj250 (op. cit.): We are an absolute joke. It's pointless being a Skins fan anymore. Snyder is an idiot who never learns, and burns bridges in the process - Lavar, Brian Mitchell, soon Campbell. Is he still claiming he doesn't get involved in personnel decisions? HA!

Redskins Insider reader chevychasepowhatans (op. cit.): It gets harder to root for this team every year.

Redskins Insider reader RedSkinsHead (op. cit.): Isn't this like a self fulfilling prophecy? They try for another QB so much that they alienate their QB so they have to think about signing another QB... Even if they don't draft a QB, I don't see Campbell sticking around. Congratulations Vinny and Dan! You have finally mis-managed a situation so badly that you have made Al Davis look like the poster boy for Sanity magazine.

There are literally hundreds of comments on that RI thread, most of them expressing exasperation or anger at this notion of Redskins quarterback Mark Sanchez. If I were Mark's agent I would be making some nervous phone calls to Dan Snyder and Vinny Cerrato and wondering aloud if Mark would be welcome in Washington. Of course winning cures all ills but even then Redskins fans never forget when the team screws over one of its players.

Hogs Haven reader cooley4: Well at least JC knows sanchez is a bum.If the redskins move to get sanchez it will be the worst move in franchise history and we’ve had some bad ones

Hogs Haven reader smutsboy1: In the long run JC will have a better career when he gets the hell away from that bumbling fool Snyder

ORB (Official Redskins Blog) reader owenfriend: must feel good to be J.C. didn't have enough time to take a breath in the pocket last year and everyone's ready to deal him off. I guess most of us forget QBs like Trent Green. Give J.C. an o-line and a second year under Zorn before you waste draft picks and maybe a potential pro bowl quarterback


If you are a Redskins fan in favor of this prospective move, drop a comment or send me an email with your reasoning, I want to hear it.



Former USC quarterback Mark Sanchez at the NFL Combine in February: AP Photo from here.