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Steve Czaban is a 25 year sports radio veteran, who hosts an afternoon drive show in Washington D.C. "Czabe" also writes and edits his own commentaries for www.czabe.com and other on-line and print publications. He can be reached at czabe@yahoo.com.

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    Josh

    It looks like Oakland will be the leader in the Mariotta sweep-stakes. They already have a franchise QB prospect and need help everywhere else so they need more picks not high picks. I’m guessing Buffalo might trade away even more picks to get the first overall because it seems like they have everything they need besides a good starting QB. Tampa Bay may be willing to bite, as well. I think the Redskins should probably just go after another project in the middle rounds and stick with RG3. Washington needs Oline help and defensive help, but their offense is pretty good as far as weapons go, so if RG3 can develop at least a little then they should be pretty well placed to compete next year.

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      James

      “if RG3 can develop at least a little then they should be pretty well placed to compete next year”

      Well-placed? How?? Hope that the DEA arrests the other NFC East teams before Week 17?

      Every team over-rates their own players, but it seems to be especially bad in Washington. I’m sick of hearing how much talent we have at the skill positions.

      So we have some above-average receivers and a good RB. Awesome! I bet no one else in the NFL has that combination either.

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      Ryan

      As a Bills fan, I wish I could agree and say my team has enough ammo to up to first overall…but the Bills don’t even get a first round pick in 2015. When they made the move fro Watkins, the Bills traded their 2015 first rounder. Sammy’s awesome, but that price may prove costly when it comes to drafting (yet another) QB.

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    DP

    Keep him and invest in “BIG UGLIES” (c) Doc. Your boy Galdi is insane- by his “metrics” Griffin both holds the ball too long AND doesn’t extend plays in the pocket enough…

    Griffin COULD be a legit “the team always has a chance to win” starting QB- the difficulty will be getting BeeGees (Bruce/Gruden/Griffin) on the same page.

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    GaryE

    You make a lot of great points here but there is one thing I think you missed.

    If you are of the get a new QB route what makes you think that things will be different for anyone playing behind this God awful offensive line?

    My point is this . . . until there is an average quality pass blocking offensive line in place (preferably better) for the Redskins I see no point whatsoever in investing in another QB.

    To toot my own horn I made this same argument before RGIII was drafted.

    How many more potentially adequate QB’s does this franchise need to draft before they will learn that without the rest of the requisite weapons on offense drafting a QB high makes little to no difference? They need two guards and a right tackle before they even consider a new QB. Now maybe the current RT will get there but as I have been saying for years the biggest problem on this team (offensively) is not the QB it is the offensive line.

    I hope I do not sound like one of those bring back the Hogs idiots . . . I know that is not possible with the salary cap. I just want a player at each offensive line position who is average or better at every aspect of offensive line play (not just zone run blocking Mike Shannahan). I am willing to be patient I am just saying that without that spending draft picks on QB does not seem wise.

    I mean the Redskins have already done that with Jason Campbell and RGIII . . . they put them behind bad lines and we saw their game play deteriorate year by year. Maybe it is not too late to resurrect RGIII I hope not. But please if the front office is listening learn from the mistakes of the past!

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    cliff

    I think you meant to say, “heads he wins, tails skins lose.”. Easy to spot with 50/50 hindsight!

    Otherwise good analysis. I’d prefer to build the team around a grateful backup.

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    tick tock

    czabe you need to take the blinders off my friend. I’ve been saying for two years I didn’t think this guy was very good. not accurate, can’t seem to process coverage’s. if the first option is covered he morphs into vince young and sand lot football.
    16-18 mill for him? you must be out of your minds! for what 12 games of below average drama fueled qb’ing.
    you’re better off picking up a veteran like Orton and saving yourselves 12 mill a year.

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    Jon

    It was my understanding that the 5th year option was not Franchise tag $$$, but Transition tender $$$? So, it should be the average of the top 10 paid at the position. This would make it about $11.25 million, which is still a lot of money, but not in the $16-18 million range.

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      Jon

      Sorry, the transition tender is around $12.2 million… mis-calculation.

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    RG-Queefs

    Keeping RG3 is like keeping a stray dog that has destroyed furniture, bitten furniture, and S’d all over the house- but sure looks really cute.

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    tick tock

    get your popcorn people this is about to get real good as gruden just blew RG3 up in the media.

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    Tom

    I think “stay the course” is the proper prescription. You have seen the damage done when a franchise reaches too far to get that “perfect” QB. You have to have the perfect balance of a guy falling to you and you needing a QB in order for it to work out. When the Ravens got Flacco, they first traded DOWN from #8 and got extra picks. Then they waited for Flacco to fall to 18 and grabbed him there. They did NOT trade away the farm to go up and get Matt Ryan. Flacco has been solid, if unspectacular, and he has led the Ravens to a Super Bowl already. Ryan…. not so much.

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  10. 10

    Cclopper

    Your statistics box includes pre-injury RGIII numbers. Completely useless in 2014. As Rick Pitino once said, “An RG III with two healthy legs is not walking through that door.”

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  11. 11

    nuestro Sitio

    You can certainly see your enthusiasm in the work you write.
    The arena hopes for more passionate wriuters such as you who are not afraid to say how they believe.

    Always follow your heart.

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