Our Current status at the WR position

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Originally Posted by 30gut

Imo our team has too many holes and we have limited resources draft picks and FA to try and upgrade a player/position where we got top 10 production.

Add a returning Malcolm Kelly and a developing Austin i think our WRs corps is one area that we can leave alone while we fix other areas.

Letting Tana walk is digging an hole to fill a hole.

Imo the struggles in our passing game are less b/c of Tana then of misuse of personnel, QB play and coaching/gameplanning/playcalling.


o Joey Galloway slowed/stunted the development of several players
Joey Galloway and Tana often ran in breaking routes that require physicality like slants and digs and square ins

o Fred Davis imo was woefully underused he was the most efficient pass catcher on the team yet was barely on the field more then our ineffective 3rd WRs and also received fewer targets then our 3rd WRs and our most of RBs and FB.

o our QB and OC couldn't get on the same page which limited the passing offense

o very limited use of the screen game

o lack of creativity (we couldn't get Tana/Banks the ball in space?)

I think our passing game has enough talent to be competitive especially if Kelly, Austin and Banks can be worked into the offense.
(imagine what the Pats would do w/ a player like Banks?)

I don't disagree with any of your reasons for the passing game struggles, I'm just talking about the struggles of the offense isolated to plays when Moss gets the ball, i.e. about 1/4 of our entire passing offense. Moving Moss isn't going to affect the other 3/4 of our passes, and we have plenty of work to do in those aspects.

I think Moss was a nice system fit this year, I just happen to feel that he did about as well as he could have given his skill set. Letting Moss walk isn't really creating a new hole because an upgrade is already a need, but more directly, he's not under contract for next season. Put in perspective, we could let Moss walk and sign James Jones (GB) and place him in the same role, and we'd more or less have the same strengths and weaknesses with a younger player. Not advocating Jones here or that you'd throw a guy like Jones 145 balls in a season...but of course we shouldn't do the same with Moss again.

I think Moss will get picked up fairly quickly when he hits the market because he's still a very good route runner and he's good around the goal line and he's tough to tackle in space and that's all very valuable receiver stuff. I just don't think it makes much sense for the Redskins to bring him back. I don't see a contract extension to be filling any sort of hole in our offense, instead it just holds the status quo.

I would not scramble frantically to replace Santana Moss' role in the offense, I think it opens up more natural looks for guys like Davis.