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Originally Posted by GiantsSuck703

Reports are that Clements wants to be paid more than Champ Bailey, what was his deal, like 6 years for 63 million, we just dont have the money for that. Dont forget the best redskins defense in the past 5 years had a squad full of nobodys. Thats basically the D that created Fred Smoot, Antonio Pierce, Lemar Marshall, Ryan Clark, Walt Harris, and a few others. Its always funny to me how quickly Redskins fans forget things, Fred Smoot was great when he was here and then we lowballed him, the same way we low balled Pierce and Ryan Clark. We need to start saving money, eventually we will have to re-sign Taylor and Cooley and if we go after Clements that could prevent us from doing so, just my opinion though.

We didn't low ball Pierce and Smoot. The contract structures were different because of our cap situation and the deals they took gave them more money early in the contract. Clark was simply not retained. I don't even know if we offered him did we?