Barrow To Be Axed?

Why cut him. If we can afford him hes not extremely expensive. Hes been a great linebacker, and I would attribute a lot of pierces success to barrows helping teach him. Hes a valuable leader that if he is better would be a great backup, or change of pace player, and a great mentor to our defense. Extra leadership will help out team.
I'm not sure how much of Pierce's success we should give to Barrow. This was a new system for both of them - it's not like Barrow has years of Gregg Williams's schemes and playcalls in his head. Pierce proved himself to be what he has been advertised as - a very intelligent football player. He ran our defense last year, and he did so without a dominant d-line or his expected linebackers around him.

I also question the value of leaders on the bench. I think that, even if Barrow has a full recovery (which he is not expected to have), the starter going into the preseason has to be Pierce, he did too much last year to be considered anything but. What value does the leader on the bench serve? Better to seek leadership from someone in the lineup, I say.

Other than that, I love you, SkinsNCanes. ;)

I think we should see if there is any trade value for him and atleast give him a chance to show what he's got before we let him go. We could ask him to restructure to stay
we didn't do it for Trotter and he became the runner up for the comeback player of the year behind Brees. I tired of seeing our free agents going to the superbowl.

I've always thought that if Barrow could play at all we should keep him, since we don't really save anything by cutting him.

If he can't play then I have nothing against cutting him. But I wonder why they would choose to eat the deadcap in 2006 instead of 2005.

Assuming Barrow is cut we'll have $2.1M deadcap on our books. Instead of pushing $1.7M to 2006 (our trouble year), why not just eat the entire $2.1M in 2005 and get it over with?

i agree Canuck plus if he gets any better he'll be an added weapon to the # 1 NFC defense

lets not forget JEREMIAH TROTTER who we axed then pickup by the eagles
and made it to PRO BOWL

We just don't ax players just because he has injury problems

Hopefully Barrow realizes that he will have a difficult time signing with other teams if Redskins decide to cut him. If he does, maybe he's willing to take a paycut and stay with us. I think his experience will help our relatively young LB's. I remember LaVar Arrington saying watching how fast Barrow was in practice made him wanted to practice harder. Oh....Trotter making it to the Pro Bowl is garbage. He didn't deserve it (in my opinion)

I've always thought that if Barrow could play at all we should keep him, since we don't really save anything by cutting him.

If he can't play then I have nothing against cutting him. But I wonder why they would choose to eat the deadcap in 2006 instead of 2005.

Assuming Barrow is cut we'll have $2.1M deadcap on our books. Instead of pushing $1.7M to 2006 (our trouble year), why not just eat the entire $2.1M in 2005 and get it over with?

Good points. I don't think he'll displace Pierce as a starter. But I could see some downs where Barrow comes in, Pierce moves to his natural OLB position and either Washington or LaVar line up as a DE

i agree Canuck plus if he gets any better he'll be an added weapon to the # 1 NFC defense

Which LB are you yanking out for him? =p