Official Redskins Free Agency Thread 2013

To be fair Joe, Archuleta was signed before the 2006 season. But that just illustrates your point even more, it was so long ago that it really shouldn't be factored into current history.

One cut saves two or three players. Like it.

Jason La Canfora ‏@JasonLaCanfora
Adam Carriker restructured his deal with the Skins, providing 2013 cap relief. Santana Moss now close to doing the same

Carriker had a torn quad

Wow, I thought it was his ACL, remembering how he was holding his knee when he went down. Rotoworld confirmed what you said, I just remember being pissed more so that we lost Orakpo a few plays later, with a torn pec (I remember that one better).


But back to AC, what a team guy. He knows he fits here, he knows we're a good team, he knows we just got a BS cap penalty and that since he didn't play last year its in the teams and his best interest to take less money this year and keep the last couple years of his deal the same. Great guy, glad he's back.

Still worried about Davis.

Knowing how the Redskins structured Carriker's deal in the first place, I'm 99% confident he took the shaft to stay in Washington. You see "mutual" options in baseball, but almost never in football. But in Carriker's contract, he had a buyback option for this season (the team of course has an option with every player every season because contracts are non-guaranteed).

In baseball, mutual options are almost ALWAYS contract-enders because one side or the other is going to feel undervalued every year. So someone is going to terminate the contract.

Carriker was always unlikely to be back, so he probably had to accept a significant pay reduction with no guarantee of being a Redskin beyond 2013. I can't help but think he'll probably regret his decision to stay in a year. Then again, the FA market is going to be incredibly soft for Carriker types, so who knows?

Santana Moss on the other hand has some leverage. He's got a date with free agency in a year, a large base salary, and a team that feels like it's losing something on the field by releasing him. The Redskins are going to have to make a couple concessions to keep him in the fold (i.e. guaranteed money, an extension of at least one season). Moss is in a good spot, he won't be getting the shaft. But I doubt he wants to hit free agency at 33. The market won't be kind.

Wow, I thought it was his ACL, remembering how he was holding his knee when he went down. Rotoworld confirmed what you said, I just remember being pissed more so that we lost Orakpo a few plays later, with a torn pec (I remember that one better).


But back to AC, what a team guy. He knows he fits here, he knows we're a good team, he knows we just got a BS cap penalty and that since he didn't play last year its in the teams and his best interest to take less money this year and keep the last couple years of his deal the same. Great guy, glad he's back.

It was his quad right near the knee, probably why he was holding it.

I agree, good move being able to keep him on board.

and now the little tweeters are saying that Moss is restructuring his deal as we speak

yessss... really hope they get this done with moss and he stays.. having rg3 thowing the ball moss has looked better than in previous years

Not sure if this posted: Redskins tender restricted free agent Chris Baker, will let Brandon Banks walk (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/football-insider/wp/2013/03/11/redskins-tender-restricted-free-agent-chris-baker-will-let-brandon-banks-walk/)

As I understand it, of the RFA's only Banks was not resigned. Baker may still walk but I bet he stays. With Cofield, Nield and Baker, I am very comfortable with our NT position.

and BTW - Thank God the Brandon Banks experiment is over. I wish him no ill will but, damn, am I glad he is gone.As recently as the Cowboys game on Thanksgiving, Brandon Banks, Niles Paul, and Tyler Polumbus were major cogs in our offense.

Just saying, there was a reason I didn't entirely buy the playoff push at that point ;)

By the time of RG3's injury, Paul was buried on the depth chart and Banks was a healthy inactive.