Demetric Evans ....start me or lose me

No you got it all wrong. You sign him to a cheap deal, then go out and sign some old vet for like 8.5 mill while throwing away a draft pick to get him. lol. ;)

I hope you all realized I was #1-joking and #2-making a reference to us signing E.James last year then throwing a draft pick at Miami for Taylor. I also kinda got the feeling Nflnick11 was doing the same thing or atleast I thought he was trying to. Perhaps I'm wrong.

I don't have a problem with Evans. I don't have a problem with him wanting to start. What I have a problem with is when anyone gives that vailed threat that sounds like an ultimatum. I have a tendency to want to say "Bye".

Ok this is weird. I posted this at 8:29 on 2-20-2009 just a few minutes ago and it shows I posted it yesterday, 2-19-2009.

I say we let Evans hit the open market....nobody will want him to start or pay him big bucks. Once he sees that he is worth nothing, we'll let him crawl back to us as our backup who makes 1 mil a year, tops.

I say we let Evans hit the open market....nobody will want him to start or pay him big bucks. Once he sees that he is worth nothing, we'll let him crawl back to us as our backup who makes 1 mil a year, tops.I think out of all of our free agents, Evans is the one who is most likely to be paid by someone else. That said, he's also the one whose loss hurts us the least.

He didn't actually make this an ultimatum - - if I'm not named the starter at DE then I'm taking a hike.


But IF he did or if that is what he says in the actual negotiations for a contract, my answer would be, "Good luck in the rest of your professional endeavors. Don't let the door hit you on the way out."


Demetric Evans is not nearly talented enough to be allowed to pull off even the most basic "diva nonsense". Tha kind of crap would have to be nipped in the bud - - - IF it were ever to happen.

According to JLC, we didnt even make him an offer:

Evans Likely to Become Free Agent - Redskins Insider (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/redskinsinsider/2009/02/evans_likely_to_become_free_ag.html#more)

I know we let guys like Cartwright hit free agency last year but i'm pretty sure we atleast offered them some kind of contract first. The only reason I can see not to make an offer at all is that we have no intention of retaining him. Which could mean we have faith in Rob Jackson progressing and we want to get a comp pick for Evans next year OR we have our sights on an impending free agent we beleive would be an upgrade over Evans.

I'm very disappointed we didnt atleast offer him some kind of contract. But then again, what do i know? Vinny is far more qualified than me to make these decisions and its not like he's ever steered us wrong before...

Anyone else get the sense that we are planning for the 2010 offseason now? Taylor, Springs and Griffin will all be off the books with no or minimal cap hits. Fletcher, Smoot, Jansen, Collins, Rock and Rabach are also candidates to be let go. (http://www.thewarpath.net/WarpathRedskinsCap.htm)

With that being the case, why sign Evans who is 29, a reserve who is a fill in starter but let's not fool ourselves into thinking that he is anything more than what he is. If he gets out there and doesn't find what he's looking for in terms of money and opportunity then certainly try to bring him back at a reasonable rate but let's not set the market for him with a starter level offer.

Anyone else get the sense that we are planning for the 2010 offseason now? Taylor, Springs and Griffin will all be off the books with no or minimal cap hits. Fletcher, Smoot, Jansen, Collins, Rock and Rabach are also candidates to be let go. (http://www.thewarpath.net/WarpathRedskinsCap.htm)

With that being the case, why sign Evans who is 29, a reserve who is a fill in starter but let's not fool ourselves into thinking that he is anything more than what he is. If he gets out there and doesn't find what he's looking for in terms of money and opportunity then certainly try to bring him back at a reasonable rate but let's not set the market for him with a starter level offer.

Funny that you mention this, because I was thinking the same thing. Someone here once said that the Redskins FO only thinks about the upcoming season and doesn't think about the future. Well I think you are right, I think they are thinking about the 2010 season and getting all of these big contracts out of the way. Even if there is no cap, we'll part ways with these old players and rejuvenate the team.

Funny that you mention this, because I was thinking the same thing. Someone here once said that the Redskins FO only thinks about the upcoming season and doesn't think about the future. Well I think you are right, I think they are thinking about the 2010 season and getting all of these big contracts out of the way. Even if there is no cap, we'll part ways with these old players and rejuvenate the team.

if that's the case, they better start working on this OL and getting some more draft picks.

Funny that you mention this, because I was thinking the same thing. Someone here once said that the Redskins FO only thinks about the upcoming season and doesn't think about the future. Well I think you are right, I think they are thinking about the 2010 season and getting all of these big contracts out of the way. Even if there is no cap, we'll part ways with these old players and rejuvenate the team.

your theory makes sense... until the skins start signing other teams aging vets to deals equal or greater than what it would have cost to keep Evans. We have to remember who we are dealing with here. Nothing Danny or Vinny have done since Danny bought the team has shown signs that they were ever really thinking beyond the upcoming season.

your theory makes sense... until the skins start signing other teams aging vets to deals equal or greater than what it would have cost to keep Evans. We have to remember who we are dealing with here. Nothing Danny or Vinny have done since Danny bought the team has shown signs that they were ever really thinking beyond the upcoming season.

Not that I am really for the Haynesworth signing (for the record, I am against it) but we can't put Haynesworth and Evans in the same sentence. The only things they have in common are they play in the NFL and they are in their late 20's but other than that we're comparing grapes and grapefruits.

If we sign Big Al and don't bring back Evans it's not that we chose one equal player over the other for a ton more money, it's that one is on a completely different plane than the other.