Washington Redskins: Ever on the Snyde

If there's one constant in life you can always count on, it's that Daniel Snyder will continually run his own franchise into the ground. In order to draft Robert Griffin (he of the "RG III" moniker) in this year's draft, he went through with this trade.

The Washington Redskins get:
2012 1st round pick (#2 overall)

The St. Louis Rams get:
2012 1st round pick (#6 overall)
2012 2nd round pick (#38 overall)
2013 1st round pick
2014 1st round pick

If they weren't so insufferably optimistic for no reason, I'd pity Skins fans.

That's right, 4 high draft picks for one player. Seriously, give me the reins of this franchise and I could lead them to better fortune through inaction and utter dispassion.

RG III looks like a good player, but he's going to have the weight of an entire franchise on his shoulders, as well as the weight of the other team's front seven piling on top of him as his O-line is more like an Owned-line. Aside from Roy Helu, his supporting cast is about as talented as Mitt Romney is galvanizing.

If you want to build a team correctly, drive up I-95 and check out the Ravens. Joe Flacco is a league-average QB at best, but he came into a team that had acquired all the right pieces for any ol' schmo to succeed. Now the Ravens have a mistakenly confident, healthy and sometimes decent QB instead of a mentally and physically battered corpse, which is what I fear could happen to Griffin.

I look forward to more false hope and hilarity to ensue all around me in the DMV next season.