Lavar says he was misquoted - he wants to remain a redskin for his entire career

distraction that is so ****in overated....oh damn we can't study film cause of what that reporter said about lavar..... grow the hell up if ur a professional it comes with the territory....DUH these are public figures... do u really think some reporter asking gibbs during a press conference about lavar is a distraction???? if it does his ass needs to retire.... this isnt TO its a damn news article and these people are professionals..... and its so easy to sit back in your comfy little chair and say just keep your mouth shut....... when u dont know the curcumstances.. or its not your life and career.....

If it isnt a distraction, why is everyone talking about this rather than the philly game?

You have to look at his demeanor while giving the interview. If he really did not say anything like what was reported, he would have denounced the whole issue completely, which he didn't do.
well when he said
"I'm unsure about it-Just like i said in the article- I'm unsure about it" i think he clarified that he did say that in the article. It was just cbs saying arrrrgggg how do we get these people to watch this show arrrrgggg. Ok heres an idea after we tell them that wearing socks is dangerous enough to make you sterile we can tell them that lavar is denying everything, yah that will keep them watching.

If it isnt a distraction, why is everyone talking about this rather than the philly game?

they get paid to play football how does this interfer with preparation in anyway.... the only ones distracted our us fans and the media..... and we dont play the game!!! oh but maybe greg williams is gonna lecture for an hour on the contract and not prepare the team.....its a joke....

by the way i hear every channel had this interview and they all chopped it up the way they wanted. Lavar on someother channel said that the writer put his own spin on it

i don't care if they locked lavar up in a cage, made him preform dances for the Big Dan, serve the players and feed him raw meat this was not the time to say this shit. It is a distraction and i don't care about the circumstances or that it isn't my life. He is a millioniare, hell the interview was given in his 20,000 sq ft. mansion. This isn't the time. Gibbs said that he wishes everyone in the town was focused on philly. Well with this shit i know that isn't gonna happen and it is not easy. Ofcourse it is a distraction. Lavar going into this game and thinking it might be his last game of his career(that is where he acts like a pre madonna)is a distraction.

Gibbs said ifanyone would say somehting like that now it is rediculous. So i will go by what gibbs said. It -being lavar- is rediculous. I road his band wagon to the ground. The thing is he does love the fans and we do love him. i don't know what the **** he is talking about. The fact is we can't cut him. Maybe he learned that the cap situation favors the redskins by a lot like the reporter said-6.5 million- and now is scared this might be his last game as a skin. If the cap is the way i think it is then lavar will be here next year and now NOW he has a problem with management. I think that he still is GREAT not good great and i don't need to saythat he is my favorite player anymore because he is LAVAR ARRINGTON the face of the redkins.

I just want him here next year playing for us with him mouth shut.
LOL Gibbs wants everyone in town to focus on the eagle's .... now gibbs controls all the media ....all this does is make this worse.... hell bush cant control the media and u think gibbs can????? they arent babies ... this is the media getting ratings ..... controversy always sells.... and really who are u or I to tell anyone to keep his mouth shut and play football ....players are human too...it seems its up to him and the team ...this is america last time i looked.... poeple are so quick to bring the hammer down and judge.this man has his livelyhood and is dream in jeopardy ...hmmm if u were in his situation i wonder what u might say or do????????

by the way i hear every channel had this interview and they all chopped it up the way they wanted. Lavar on someother channel said that the writer put his own spin on it
Now your getting the idea ..this is what they i do....and to a certain extent ...that is exactly what happened with the TO thing... it gets spliced and cut up and u never get the truth of what it was really about .... thats how things get taken out of context...

Now your getting the idea ..this is what they i do....and to a certain extent ...that is exactly what happened with the TO thing... it gets spliced and cut up and u never get the truth of what it was really about .... thats how things get taken out of context...

So far what i know is

-- lavar thinks he might be gone next year due to cap situations- well that is a given most of us think the same thing

-- Lavar still loves the fans

-- Lavar wants to play here next year more than anywhere else

-- Lavar feels unwanted. Might be true but a couple weeks ago he said that he should have handled things differently.

--The timing is horrible. I guess we will disagree, i think the defense will be distracted. I have pictures from the chargers game in which i took a picture of the players entering and i didn't notice while i was taking the pictures that lavar was standing in the middle and everyone that ran by him on his left and on this right slapped his hand. He waited till the end. He is still a leader on this team and him being upset takes away focus from this game. Thinking this is his last professional game is a distraction to those on defense. Gibbs says its a distraction so its a distraction

--Lavar is still my boy

Well the media is trying to make more of this i just saw lavar on tv saying it was alot of his own opinions... and he i worried about philly now..... but bauer i wont fight with you i have been very entertained by your posts on the eagles board ... you have my respect...... and i am clouded alot by the fact that Lavar maybe my all time favorite football player....

Well the media is trying to make more of this i just saw lavar on tv saying it was alot of his own opinions... and he i worried about philly now..... but bauer i wont fight with you i have been very entertained by your posts on the eagles board ... you have my respect...... and i am clouded alot by the fact that Lavar maybe my all time favorite football player....
yeah, its all fine we all have our opinions.

Now after further thinking

I just don't think lavar did anything wrong. He is saying he might not be here next year. The thing is everyone from the guys at ESPN to your average joe has thought this. I think it is impossible due to the cap hit we will take. According to http://redskins.scout.com/3/2006_Salary_Cap.html the skins hit from my man lavar is about 500,000 more than if we kept him. No way will we pay to take him away. Our very own CrazyCunuck does a great job and his cap also shows a difference in about 700,000.

Now if the writer of the times is right that means we save 6.5 million by cutting him and if that is true lavar should be scared of because he WILL be gone. BUt if everyone else is right lavar in my opinion will be lighting people up for years to come as a redskin.

I am not mad at lavar but it does seem that there is something wrong with big boy dan. Everyone leaves on such bad terms. Smoot and pierce shouldn't be upset but like lavar said it happened to davis, coles and bailey. All fan favorites, all taken down by dan. Lavar didn't have to bad talk the organization this week but the thing is if he did this 5weeks ago i would call him crazy or 4 weeks ago or 3 or 2 or last week or next week. If he wants to get this off his chest this was the best week to do it but the quote that hurt me was.

"Causing a fumble to win a game or getting an interception to change a season, that's not the extent of my life," he says. "It never has been. I always see myself as a person first. Maybe coaches get upset that I don't take myself or this game too seriously and they do. Maybe they get upset because I see it as a game and nothing more than a game."

Lavar was Lavar because he fought hard and if he is saying that he doesn't take the game as seriously as the coaches do then i feel like i was wrong about him. I think this is not what he meant but he did say it.

I love Lavar, but I love the Redskins more. I still think he can come back and be a great player for us and just wish we do not have to keep going through this ordeal. I agree that the damn media is really doing a number on us all and making us think one thing when the truth maybe the exact opposite. I'm just ticked that all of this is coming a few days before our last (and most important) regular season game. Let's just forget about all this and take things as they come. If we have him, great. If not, its no question that he would be missed but what can you do?