Analogy Killer: The Jets Are Not the Redskins

Under the Johnny Rockets Generalissimo, Washington has acquired a brutal reputation for blowing up free agency, and their own team in the process. The trend began early in Snyder's term, when the team brought in famous flop quarterback Jeff George on a four-year, $18.25 million deal. One would have thought that a 30-ish year old man on his fifth NFL team who was already considered a monumental draft bust would have been worth the money, but stunningly, George sucked. A lot. He was cut after playing only eight games over the course of two seasons. Next we have potato-faced young Adam Archuleta, whom Snyder made the richest safety ever. Given a seven year, $35 million deal, Archuleta spent only a single season with the team, most of it riding the bench. When he did play, he was a nightmare, giving up play after play, with only an incredibly hot wife to show for it. The aging Deion Sanders got seven years and $56 million, Brandon Lloyd got $27 million for 25 receptions, and Jeremiah Trotter got seven years and $36 million for one awful year before returning to the team that made him famous, just as Jason Taylor would later do. Now we have $100 million defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth, who badly wants off the team, and doesn't care whose birthday party he ruins in the process. Has there ever been a greater show of stupidity in league history? I mean, besides Matt Millen? The sheer excess of it all! The hubris the comes in believing that a single recognizable face is enough to make a team in a game where it takes 53 men working together to get the job done! Continue reading →