Redskins trade for Free Safety Dashon Goldson

I wouldn't say meaningless because he's better than last years' old Ryan Clark, and better than having pretty much nothing (which is what we had before we got him).

Clearly age matters at safety and we can't expect too much.. Ryan Clark retired at 35, Polamalu at age 33, Reed at 35 (obviously the last two were among the best all time and that helps longevitiy). Seems to be the proverbial "wall" happens for safeties around 30-32, so the very best we could hope is Goldson would be good for 1 or maybe two years. Not expecting much but hoping for developing a young replacement.

How is he any better than Clark? Where's the evidence?

How is he any better than Clark? Where's the evidence?

5 years younger to start, faster. We will find out soon enough.

If Dallas or Philly signed the guy would people here feel the same way? Nope. The Redskins and the new GM signed him, so it's a good signing. Right? Lol. Cause SM's not capable of making a bad one.

The guy was released by a two win team. Scheme or no scheme they obviously saw that he wasn't capable of making plays and didn't make enough during his time there. I'll stand by my vote on this one, it's a bad signing.

I don't think this is a great signing, but given how low risk and low cost it is I have a hard time calling it a bad one.

If we had given Goldson the deal Tampa Bay gave him when they signed him, then yes it is a bad signing. I believe the Bucs are paying all the guaranteed money; if he doesn't work out then we can part ways with him without losing much (you can never have a risk free signing).

I also don't care much about the fact that Tampa Bay released him; they also released DE Micheal Johnson, who they signed last year to a ton of money and didn't work out. Apparently teams still don't learn from our mistake during the Vinny years of blindly throwing a ton of money at prized free.

For once, I'm glad to be on being the team that scoops up the lucrative free agent acquisition that didn't work out in other team, rather than be the team that makes the lucrative free agent acquisition.

The only think I don't like about this signing is that we didn't get a coverage safety (Goldson is more of a SS IMO).

I think we can reserve some judgement until we see the guy in a Skins uniform and how he fits with this D. It's hard to imagine anyone being as bad as Clark was last year.

I think we can reserve some judgement until we see the guy in a Skins uniform and how he fits with this D. It's hard to imagine anyone being as bad as Clark was last year.
What would be the point of that?
Cannot we lynch him now and those that.......brung him?

I'm not thrilled by the Goldson trade but I also don't see how it could possibly hurt us.

Here's the part that puzzles me: If he was so bad at Tampa, how did he manage to make 81 tackles last season? Did anyone else on their defense tackle anybody?

are we still talking about this? we're on the hook for ZERO dollars. if he stinks it up that much in camp, he can be let go, but we needed somebody in case the draft didn't pan out there and no one else steps up.

no one here is deluded into thinking this guy is the next sean taylor or ronnie lott. hopefully he's at least replacement level. if so, that'd be a huge upgrade for us.