Official Redskins Free Agency Thread 2013

[RGIII]

Originally Posted by BigHairedAristocrat

You foolishly believe that resigning those players comes at the expense of signing a "starter." Your "conventional thinking" is nothing more than your own uninformed assumption. The skins can still free up about 14MM in restructures. You criticized the guys we resigned but they're all essentially making the vet minimums. We have to have 53 men on the team, and only 22 of them are starters. so far, were filling the 31 backup positions. When the market settles, we will sign a few good, quality players to reasonable contracts. We won't overspend, like the cards did on Lorenzo Alexander. They gave 3MM a year to a special teamer. That's stupid. The first few days of free agency, almost every team OVERpays for certain players. Right now, the market is literally flooded with comparable quality CBs. Why overspend on one now when we can wait a week or two when the market settles, and get one of comparable talent for half the price?

"The skins can still free up about 14MM in restructures", sounds like an assumption to me. If you're so informed, why didn't you warn the Skins FO of pushing contract money into the uncapped year? They "foolishly believed" they would get away with that and now look at this mess. This appears to be more desperation than strategy. If what you say is true the newly signed backups could've/should've been had when "the market settles,... for half the price". No?

[EARTHQUAKE2689]

Originally Posted by RGIII

"The skins can still free up about 14MM in restructures", sounds like an assumption to me. If you're so informed, why didn't you warn the Skins FO of pushing contract money into the uncapped year? They "foolishly believed" they would get away with that and now look at this mess. This appears to be more desperation than strategy. If what you say is true the newly signed backups could've/should've been had when "the market settles,... for half the price". No?

I think you should relax.

[Lotus]

Originally Posted by BigHairedAristocrat

Chill already. Free agency just started. Given our cap situation, we all knew we wouldn't b active until the market settled. It's highly likely that our 2013 starting rt is not on our roster right now. So far, we've signed 2 tackles to backup money. More moves are coming. Some of you need o Stop being whitney little b****es and exercise some f***ing patience.

Amen.

[artmonkforhallofamein07]

My guess is he (T Jax) will be released when he is reinstated.

I think there is a rule against releasing a player while on suspension. I could be wrong, but considering he wasn't on the team for very long leads me to believe it to be true.

He is a player who cannot be counted on and goes against the character of 99% of the players on the squad.

Also I have a feeling bringing in a guy like Talib is another problem waiting to happen, he is always in trouble. Why spend the coin on a player that is a huge risk when there are others out there who don't bring all the baggage.

[SFREDSKIN]

Could Talib be Shanahan's Washington version of Maurice Clarett in Denver? I hope not.

[Ruhskins]

RT by Adam Caplan:

https://twitter.com/TonyGrossi/statu...08975813537793

Tony Grossi ‏@TonyGrossi
I'm hearing TE Fred Davis not coming to #Browns anytime soon.

[artmonkforhallofamein07]

CLE insider?

[CultBrennan59]

Twitter keeps blowing up w/ skins fans saying we're getting Davis back AND Talib. I'd be very surprised.

But I would honestly prefer that we hadn't signed Pashos, Trueblood, Golston, (Talib) and had just spent that money on Eric Winston so we could end the whole "Who's going to be our RT to protect RG3" talk.

[BigHairedAristocrat]

Originally Posted by RGIII

"The skins can still free up about 14MM in restructures", sounds like an assumption to me. If you're so informed, why didn't you warn the Skins FO of pushing contract money into the uncapped year? They "foolishly believed" they would get away with that and now look at this mess. This appears to be more desperation than strategy. If what you say is true the newly signed backups could've/should've been had when "the market settles,... for half the price". No?

I'm "informed" by looking on th cap figures on this site and what's widely been reported by various media outlets and cap experts here. You should do some research and exercise patience. Tomorrow well possibly have a new starting cb and before the draft well have a starting RT. Chill

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by artmonkforhallofamein07

CLE insider?

Tony Grossi is a Brown's analyst for ESPN

https://twitter.com/TonyGrossi

[EARTHQUAKE2689]

Film Breakdown of Redskins Hopeful Signing, Aqib Talib - Hogs Haven

[The Goat]

The X factor in a Talib signing and on/off field performance is our HC. Love him or hate him players tend to shape up and perform for Mike or they get the axe, similar to what you see with Belichick. My thing is, why doesn't Belichick want Talib anymore? They've got cap room to spare, yes? What's the story there?

[Skinzman]

Originally Posted by The Goat

The X factor in a Talib signing and on/off field performance is our HC. Love him or hate him players tend to shape up and perform for Mike or they get the axe, similar to what you see with Belichick. My thing is, why doesn't Belichick want Talib anymore? They've got cap room to spare, yes? What's the story there?

Who says Belichick doesnt want him? BB has different negotiating tactics than most people. He has Tom Brady, he will pay whatever it takes for that. The rest of them, hes expecting a discount in exchange for a possible SB trip each year.

He said goodbye to Welker and grabbed Amendola on what seemed to be negotiating principle alone. Not only did he offer Amendola more money per year, he already had the deal negotiated prior to his latest contract offer to Welker. I assume Welker/Amendola was a "shot across the bow" to his own players not named Tom Brady to take what he offers or play elsewhere.

I understand the age difference between the two. But there is also the continuity and injury difference between the two. If he was that worried about age, BB could have found another Amendola in the next couple of years. So dropping Welker now when he would accept a two year deal was about something else than Welkers money.

[Skins4L]

Originally Posted by CultBrennan59

Oh don't worry you'll get your wish. Unless your going for reverse psychology here.

no seriously. i dont want Talib hes not a fit here.

[Krusheasy]

@AdamSchefter ... When all is said and done, whenever that is, I believe he (Talib) returns to New England.