Springs and Taylor miss OTAs

I am pretty sure Taylor has never shown up for OTA's, so i'm not to worried about this.

grim, what was the way the redskins treated springs? i think they have been more than fair with him

This is my opinion but this is why I think he has been treated unfairly:

Springs has been a leader in the locker room the whole time that he has been on the team. He has never been in trouble. He participates in the community, he shows up on the local Redskins shows and he represents the team well on the various media outlets. He has restructured his contract, in the past, when the team needed salary cap relief. Last year, he hurt his groin. He rushed back to get back on the field because the team desperately needed him. Although never 100%, he did his best to give the team a chance. Well, he never healed and then he was hurt again later in the year. During the offseason, the Redskins ask him to restructure and essentially take a pay cut because he was hurt last year. Realizing that he held the leverage due to the shortage of quality corners, he decides that they can pay him his salary or let him go where he will certainly get a large signing bonus. Since he wouldn't restructure, the front office did everything they could to get rid of him but there have not been any legitimate offers.

I would take a whole team of Shawn Springs. This is a prime example of why players should think long and hard about restructuring. They are holding his high cap number over his head. The cap number that is so high because he helped them out in the past.

Didnt Taylor miss them 2 years ago. And everyone was like WTF mate, and its just because he was working out on his own in MIA. Just leave him alone and stop making assumptions.

Sheesh, people just want gossip during the offseason.

Except this time they relaxed the rules on the workouts expecting full attendance for the OTAs.

Taylor, Springs Are Early No-Shows - washingtonpost.com (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/08/AR2007050801754.html)

I haven't even read it yet...

After reading that article I'm not too concerned. I just hope Marcus is okay. When I hear stuff like "removed damaged cartilage" and "shaved off bone spurs" I worry about the dreaded nagging injury. Especially with the bone spurs....

Didnt Taylor miss them 2 years ago. And everyone was like WTF mate, and its just because he was working out on his own in MIA. Just leave him alone and stop making assumptions.

Sheesh, people just want gossip during the offseason.

haha. and the french are like "fire our shit!," "but i'm tired" "well take a nap and then fire our missles"

have you seen that? its funny

Come on guys miss these optional things all the time. If it is indeed a contract dispute he would be well served in turing out a stellar season to up the ante Then again, he might just do that(have a Pro Bowl year) and then bolt if he doesn't get the extension now. Gibbs and the FO better investigate what the deal is if they don't know already. Losing ST would be very detrimental to our D at the very least and probably would hurt morale just as bad for the entire team.

After reading that article I'm not too concerned. I just hope Marcus is okay. When I hear stuff like "removed damaged cartilage" and "shaved off bone spurs" I worry about the dreaded nagging injury. Especially with the bone spurs....

Yeah, I am not too optimistic about Washington. I guarantee they will push him to come back too early too. Hell, he is a Warrior. He will probably push himself to come back too early.

I prefer to "asume" the positive as opposed to the negative. Much too early in the process to asume anything should be made of either's absence. Haven't heard what the overall attendance was for the beginning of OTA's so they may not be the only one's absent, just the most noteworthy names. Wouldn't make too much of it....

Doesn't anyone remember that Sean Taylor was working out at Redskins Park earlier in the Offseason. So what if he is not here now. You guys act like we are going to lose him or something. Sean Taylor isn't going anywhere any time soon. I don't see us losing Springs this offseason either. Stop getting your panties in a bunch over stupid shit.

haha. and the french are like "fire our shit!," "but i'm tired" "well take a nap and then fire our missles"

have you seen that? its funny

haha of course I have