RI: Allen: 'We're going 100 mph getting ready for free agency'

I've been saying all along that Cooley will be shopped around.. If someone offers us a 2nd round pick for him, he is gone.

gotta love the offseason as a skins fan, i think they are talking up portis to see if anyone shows any intrest which i doubt will happen, it's gonna be real interesting come april

sounds like haslett is going run a 3-4.

I'm sure BA will be very creative and management will have Danny Boy's full support to turn this thing around for the better.

I've been saying all along that Cooley will be shopped around.. If someone offers us a 2nd round pick for him, he is gone.

No way we trade him for just a second.

No way we trade him for just a second.

Agree worth more, maybe a 2nd & a 3rd next year. I don't want to see him go thou, but it is a business.

Agree worth more, maybe a 2nd & a 3rd next year. I don't want to see him go thou, but it is a business.

A couple of good games from Fred Davis and suddenly the best player on our team becomes expendable. It annoys me. We'd have to get a REALLY sweet offer to part with Cooley. I like Fred Davis a lot, but I'd also love to see some two TE sets with both of them on the field together. Hell, they may be our two best pass catchers right now.

Cooley is a gamer and has been a great Skin. Wish we could keep guys around for awhile like the pre cap days, but if there is a trade to be made, he is the only guy that will garner the most bang. Portis' time for being traded was after '07 or '08. Rogers might not be the best trade bait. ARE might be worth a low round pick, but that is it.

Bruce Allen is a good interview.

I am such a sucker when it comes to the Skins. A simple comment like these and I get amp'ed. I want to get past this snow, this month and get to free agency. The discussion on Cooley is old, but I will say again the Skins would be FOOLISH to trade away a content top 5 TE in the PRIME of his career for any amount short of ft knox type picks. We need to keep our core hard nosed talent(what little we have) and let others make the stupid trades and deals. The thing Allen said that I liked:
The pieces we pick up will be the beginning. not one player away mentality but building a long term championship team

Personally I can't believe they're giving Portis another shot. I'd rather try and find the next great nobody in Shanahan's offense then give a bunch of carries to Portis.

I think they realize they can't automatically plug in any RB into the Shanny offense to succeed before they have the line to accomplish that.
Having Portis buys them time until the new line can develop