How bad is our secondary?

yep, the same guy who got pissed when Danny Boy and Vinny gave D Hall a 50 million dollar contract after several games who is now a pro bowler and an integral part of the top defense in the league. Same guy we low balled.

He left of his own accord and no one knew he'd play that way in SF. Sh*t like this happens and people need to get over it. I'm sure people here would have been pissed if BA gave Rogers top CB money (which he wanted) after the pedestrian season he had here.

You mean the Carlos ROGERS that left for San Francisco for pretty much the same amount of money that we offered him?

Yeah, can we stop bemoaning the loss of poor Carlos Rogers? He was given a few opportunities to stay and let's not forget he was benched for poor play and poor attitude 3 times while he was here. What's next, people saying 'well Champ Bailey is still playing at a high level and we just gave him away!'?

Our secondary is probably below average talent wise but our scheme and playcalling seemingly are built towards highlighting their weaknesses rather than called to their strengths. We don't have strong lock down man corners, so why do we zero blitz so much? We don't have particularly big or athletic safeties so why do we lock them up on slot WR so much?

I'm fine with an aggressive 3-4 but we have to be smart-aggressive. We can send 6 rather than 8. We can play coverage and try to get off the field on 3rd and 7 rather than bring the house, give up a 4 yard dump off, miss a tackle and give up a first down. We can blitz our MLB but drop someone else off the line into coverage to try to cover up a vacant area.

John Keim from the Examiner consistently says two things about our team and coaching staff.. 1) They call plays and run schemes for who they want us to be rather than for who we are. Meaning we don't have the players to be effective with the plays called. 2) Many coaches he has spoken to have indicated that the coverage schemes behind our blitzes are unsound-which leads to plays like what happened vs. Dallas last year, the Wilson play yesterday and the Hawkins long TD. If you are going to send the house you have to either get a jam on the WR or play enough of a shell that whatever happens in front of you can be quickly rallied to.

The other beef I have is specific to Dejon Gomes.. Is he healthy? On the Green TD he seemed to be limping and on every blitz he looked like he was going 3/4 speed rather than all out. I know we are banged up and short at that position but I'd rather see Doughty on that blitz than a jogging Gomes.

He left of his own accord and no one knew he'd play that way in SF. Sh*t like this happens and people need to get over it. I'm sure people here would have been pissed if BA gave Rogers top CB money (which he wanted) after the pedestrian season he had here.

BA would not have given Rogers top money, but he should at least attempted to lock him up to something decent. From the way everything went down, we let him walk. Rogers was not a bad or average corner here, he got the bad press for dropping balls he should have caught, which is true. But he played good man to man and was an above average to good coverage CB. He complimented the risk taking, big play corner on the other side well.

Well everyone bitched about Rodgers missing those ints and my comment was "he is breaking up the play". Well we ran him out of town.

Didnt he want out of town though?

BA would not have given Rogers top money, but he should at least attempted to lock him up to something decent. From the way everything went down, we let him walk. Rogers was not a bad or average corner here, he got the bad press for dropping balls he should have caught, which is true. But he played good man to man and was an above average to good coverage CB. He complimented the risk taking, big play corner on the other side well.

I think those are fair points and I think the Redskins probably were more than willing to part with him. However, it is not like San Fran gave him more money than what we offered him, and I think that's the part that people don't understand.

yep, the same guy who got pissed when Danny Boy and Vinny gave D Hall a 50 million dollar contract after several games who is now a pro bowler and an integral part of the top defense in the league. Same guy we low balled.

We didn't low ball him. You apparently haven't listened to a single thing Smoot has said. Otherwise, you wouldn't be saying this crap.

We will have to wait until the off-season for this to change obviously but an idea of Where to start Could be sign aqib talib and draft tyrann mathieu to be our ss if he declares which I suspect he will.

Yes yes please my god and yes. I know longer care about what the hell issues they have(for the most part). Id rather problematic pro bowler than an angelic bum after what i witnessed yesterday. Get them here and keep them out of trouble at least there is hope of a good dback there. Our guys now have zero hope i believe even with haslett gone. Give me talent i can mold and educate and try and teach to be a model citizen because you cant teach the talent part.

We didn't low ball him. You apparently haven't listened to a single thing Smoot has said. Otherwise, you wouldn't be saying this crap.

if the FO wanted Carlos to be here, he would still be here. So we let a probowler walk, its no big deal.

if the FO wanted Carlos to be here, he would still be here. So we let a probowler walk, its no big deal.

To an extent but carlos DID NOT want to be here. We may have been slightly stubborn in our discussions with him but it was a two way street to say the least.

if the FO wanted Carlos to be here, he would still be here. So we let a probowler walk, its no big deal.

Carlos became a pro bowler after he left the team. He was a good corner when he was here with us and had a pedestrian season during his contract year. Your argument would only be correct if:

A. Rogers had play at a Pro Bowl level the last season he was with the Skins (which he didn't)

B. Rogers had left for SF for more money (which he didn't)

C. Rogers had wanted to stay here with the Redskins (which he didn't either)