I had someone pose some thing interesting to me this week while viewing "The Leading 100: Players of 2011" on NFL Network as voted through the players. Donovan McNabb's friends voted in as No. 100 -- one of twelve quarterback to make the checklist. John Beck, Washington's third-string quarterback behing McNabb and Rex Grossman final period, may not even be a top-1,000 player -- yet the Redskins see him as a potential starter. So, I was asked, is that a insane idea?
And, I suppose, on some degree it just might be. But football choices are not created in a vacuum and it appears to me that now, lastly, in Year Two, Mike Shanahan has grasped exactly how large a chore he has. After investing numerous draft picks for McNabb andJammal Brown a year ago, now he appears to be centered on the long haul.
This group has main roster voids, and discovering out about Beck -- who Shanahan also traded for and likes -- tends to make feeling. Paying McNabb a $10 million roster bonus simply to stick as possible insurance coverage makes far much less feeling to me.