(07-09-2017, 07:39 PM)JagFanatic24 Wrote: When we turned out back on Mark Brunell and drafted Leftwich.

Also you could say when we traded up to draft Harvey. Or when we list 2 offensive lineman before week 1 of the 2008 season.

Turned our back on Brunell? The writing was on the wall, Garrard was already drafted as a potential successor prior to Del Rio Coming in. Most knew it was time to move on. I think two or three teams had an interest in Brunell prior to 2004 and the Redskins offered a great deal. This is a business and you have to leave personal feelings aside. Brunell was never going to take this team anywhere during a rebuild. 

Del Rio put together a decent rebuild albeit with many players coming from TC era drafts. I really admired what Del Rio was able to do. It was the right time to move on for TC, I don't see the Del Rio/Shack Era as the failure that most do. 

As for Selecting Harvey, that team was doomed to fail as several players hit a decline all at once. That team had a winning record going into the bye week. This was the first season I had ever seen Taylor being absolutely ineffective and that hurt. Henderson and Stroud were done, Brian Williams couldn't cover, Nelson was undisciplined - Garrard, I believe played through some injuries and was not the player he was in 07. Even if we had taken Campbell at 28 in that draft (the consensus need was D-Line) that team had little to no heart after the bye week and that's when you knew it was time for Del Rio to go. I felt like Del Rio wanted that Season to end somewhere around the bye week. Terrible morale across that team. 

Even then I woulndt say that was the moment - When you draft poorly and sign the wrong FA's it can really hurt you but the biggest failure of the last three regimes is that they could not secure a franchise B for long enough and it has nothing to do with Brunell

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