Is paying Jason Taylor $8.5M the best use of salary cap dollars?

You don't know what Willis is going to sign for but what is wrong with using a draft pick. Every other (good) team fills positions in the draft.

Personally, I think that the tackles in the draft (especially Oher and Smith) will be better than Willis.

Nothing is wrong with using a draft pick. I'd rather get a 25 year old RT with NFL starting experience and draft a position of long term need (DE to replace Taylor or LB to replace Fletcher) than draft a tackle now and still have both of those needs next offseason.

I think JT will be cut for an instant savings of 8.5M, but I reserve the right to be wrong. I also think that we are hellbent on trading down, which makes some sense. Who would trade up? Lots of teams have extra picks in the second round, and DET has 1, 20, 33 which is a lot of ammunition.

at #13 there will be someone still on the board that a team out there craves, whether it's Stafford, Sanchez, or Andre (Awol) Smith.

All of the 1st rounders have been "no-brainers", meaning you can't give him credit for anything. ;)

I wonder if we would have signed Haynesworth had we taken Okoye instead of Landry. Of course the freedom thing among defensive lineman seems to be an issue so I doubt he would have been as succesful here but you have to wonder.

Glad to see people still talking about Ray Willis but it seems less and less likely that we'll bring him in hear. Which is kind of exciting as it means the front office is probably thinking hard of getting one of the big 4 or worst case scenario one of the elite 8.

Glad to see people still talking about Ray Willis but it seems less and less likely that we'll bring him in hear. Which is kind of exciting as it means the front office is probably thinking hard of getting one of the big 4 or worst case scenario one of the elite 8.

or it could also mean we give Heyer a full year of starting at RT before replacing him.

or it could also mean we give Heyer a full year of starting at RT before replacing him.

Personally I really doubt that they are willing to take that chance.

No, it's a terrible use of cap space. They could have added 2 or 3 free agents with that cap space. It's like they are determined to get a good season out of him so that they can feel better about the 2nd round pick they traded. It seems almost more about saving face then an actual smart football decision.

I have no link but just saw on espn that the Redskins have released Jason Taylor. Crazy!

Bye Jason Taylor, you were a complete waste of time/life as a Washington Redskin

ESPN redskins release JT

No, it's a terrible use of cap space. They could have added 2 or 3 free agents with that cap space. It's like they are determined to get a good season out of him so that they can feel better about the 2nd round pick they traded. It seems almost more about saving face then an actual smart football decision.

we need a poll of how many people really believe this. I know I can't understand the concept, but I hear it repeated over and over on this board. Can't it simply be that in their assessment, a player still has a shot at being worth the value? JT came on at the end of the year (amazingly weeks AFTER his injury had time to heal - imagine that) and maybe they expect, based on tape and workouts, that JT will be an impact player. I seriously doubt that DS sits in his office thinking, if I do x move, then the media/fans/whoever will think I have lost face. He would never make another decision again. I think it a lot more likely that they think, I am going to do x move and if people cry/media spins/etc then so be it. If they were in face saving mode, would they, knowing the media frenzy, go out and get Haynesworth. I doubt it. If anything they probably thought:

(rubbing hands together Dan says to Vinny) Man the media is going to go NUTS over this - hey can we find a way to ratchet it up to 110Mill without us having to pay it hehe that'll really get them good.
(Vinny grinning to Danny) Hehe Eric just got it up to 115Mill man its gonna be fun!

(inspired by, though not as good as, Skinny Tee;) )