The Redskins and young quarterbacks

It sucks to be a young QB around the Washington Redskins these days. Consider this.

Colt McCoy reported to Redskins HQ yesterday for his pre-draft workout. This is the very day the whole compound is buzzing about the arrival of Donovan McNabb. Of all the Pyhrric and pointless exercises ever done... The Redskins don't even have a 2nd rounder to take him. Neither do they have a 3rd rounder, not that Colt would fall that far. Colt must have been scratching his head a little. He was practicing his interview skills, I guess. I guess it's also a chance to rub elbows.

Now we have Sam Bradford visiting the Redskins today. Today is the day of the McNabb news conference at Redskin HQ. I feel bad for Sam. We are almost certain that the Redskins will not be dealing for him on draft day. Sam wanted to play for Mike Shanahan. He was hoping to be Mike's next protégé prodigy. Perhaps this will make him feel just a bit better about the Ram opportunity.

When NFL Network draft scout Charles Davis was asked why the Redskins would continue with the process of interviewing these young QBs he simply said: "These were non-refundable airplane tickets. They had to go through with it."

Later, Jason La Canfora spun the silly yarn that "You have to due your due diligence; you never know when these kids might come up in free agency."

Consider the most unhappy of them all. Whilst the Redskins welcome McNabb and workout out erstwhile prospects, Jason Campbell is watching daytime TV at home and awaiting his fate. Reportedly, he had a swanky breakfast with Shanahan who instructed him to stay away from the Redskins' compound. You know that's not nice. That's as close to "your fired" as it gets in the NFL. A number of deals are in progress right now. At this point, nobody knows which scenario will be the one. The Redskins will try to get this deal done before the draft, but it is absolutely clear that Campbell is not a part of the Redskins' plan now.

The Redskins are going to have some irritated young QBs to deal with, not to mention the Eagles.

So VanRam wants to know if Jason Campbell is an option in 2010

While I have enjoyed the writing VanRam for some time now, I'm going to have sound a bit caustic in this post.

Is Jason Campbell an option in 2010? No. Fuck no. Why would you even consider floating that trial balloon? Why even consider it? Why would you want to? I don't know what would trigger that thought.

Barring an unforeseen miracle Resurrection of Bulger, the Rams will undoubtedly make a quarterback their top pick in the 2010 draft. This means we only want and need a short-run stop-gap solution until the youngin is ready for war. Kyle Boller will fit this description just fine thank you very much. No need to go looking for a new used car.

Let's understand that despite a gob-smacking QB efficiency rating of 86.5, Jason Campbell really hasn't show much signs of life in Washington. We all know that Washington came close to dismissing Campbell this very off-season. We all know their offense stinks. It is almost as bad as ours. To say that their's is better than ours, therefore taking their QB constitutes an upgrade for us is a little like saying the Russian made cars were better than Hungarian made cars during the Communist epoch, ergo you should get a Russian car. I got a better idea: Why not buy a Honda instead? Fuck the Russian and Hungarian cars of the communist epoch.

Adding Campbell to our offense is not going constitute any sort of an upgrade. Let's forget about it. Draft Tim Tebow, slap Ferragamo's number on his back, let Boller start for period of time in which we school Tebow on (presumably) the West Coast Offense.