Gibbs hinted that Springs is hiding an injury

If springs is hurt AGAIN this should be no suprise. This guy can not stay healthy.

This is his last season in DC. I hope this injury is short lived.

I suspect they're hiding something else. Any more on those disciplinary rumours that were being hinted at here last night?

I haven't been able to follow up on that today

We better hope he is just stiff and working out the rust . Rogers and Smoot will get burned all year with the pass rush being non existent , I thought Miami had a horrible line , yet Green had all freakin day to throw / Thank god chambers couldn't catch a cold ! We need a S. Spring at 100% to win more than 9 games this year .

its plain and simple, we need springs, to be the best football team we can possibly be. he is our best cover corner

Springs really needs to get healthy. If we have to depend on Smoot and Rogers all year as the top two guys, opposing offenes are gonna slice through us like Sherman through Atlanta.

Is this a surprise to anyone?? Springs is NEVER healthy, and he's getting old to be a starting corner. And if Chambers hadn't dropped several passes we might not have won that game. Smoot needs to step up as the starting corner so Springs can play more sparingly as the nickel and stay fresh. So many teams have HUGE injuries, Jansen included. I just want to avoid the damn injury bug for here on out.

I kinda thought it had more to do with the fact that he refused to restructure and maybe there's kinda some bad blood there. I don't blame him for not restructuring, though... thats kinda a thing you do when you think you're going to be at a place for a while and he knows they're looking for more youthful bodies in the secondary.

Seems Jason La Canfora was just as surprised as the rest of us not to see Springs; also he seems to believe springs is healthy:

"And all the while I can't help but be baffled by Spring's standing on the sidelines. Gregg Williams says he wants to keep the guys fresh and rotate and all of that jazz, but ain't no way I don't have Springs out there. Heard that after the game Trent Green was asked some of the Skins players what was up with that, 'cause the Dolphins went into the game hoping to pick on the guy not on Shawn's side, and ended up only facing Springs in the nickel package for the most part. Springs is healthy, and I'd be playing him like heck now."

Redskins Insider (http://blog.washingtonpost.com/redskinsinsider/)

Could this just be GW looking at the younger guys and giving Springs rest against an easy opponent?

This is all very strange...

Idk what it is but we need him to play, with the pass rush we have Smoot and Rogers can probably expect to have bad seasons back there. If we trade his ass after the season then whatever, but we can't expect to have success on defense without him for now.

If he noticed that before the game that WOULD explain why Springs was not the starter.

Yeah that was a small typo, I meant after.