Larry Gude
Strung Out
...free agent time again.
London Fletcher is likely to be a Redskin soon.
Why? He's supposed to be durable and a good run stopper and he is a 'Greg Williams' guy. That's why.
Antonio Piece wasn't a Greg Williams guy.
London has played nine years, hasn't missed a game. In the NFL, that means he is a ticking time bomb way, way over due. 9 years.
All I remember of his Ram years was he was a smaller, quicker type guy who got pushed back when you had to have that one yard. Quick doesn't get better with age.
FWIW, Fletcher was an undrafted free agent.
We may not re-sign Dockery because he might be worth $12 mil, guaranteed, on the market. So what? We give away $10 mil to pretty much anybody for being average somewhere else. Why not 2 more for a guy who has actually proven himself, here? If he were someone else's free agent, we'd give up $12 mil to get him. We'd give him more than that.
Smoot might be coming back. It made no sense letting him go. It makes less getting him back.
Shaw Springs is like Dockery; apparently not worth keeping. He's our best cover guy, by far, and made the entire D better when he played. He's coming off a season slowed by that surgery which, by the way he finished the season, is just fine. It's just as reasonable to expect him to play a full season as it is Fletcher, or anyone else, at his age. Maybe more so. Why is your #1 corner worth planning on paying $7 mil when he reaches this point in the contract when you sign him, but no now, especially when he is still, by a good bit, your #1 corner? We'd pay $10 to get him if he wasn't ours. Hell, the paper says a possible replacement, Nat Clements, might get $20 mil somewhere.
Why the hell not just play Rocky, a first round pick, btw, and pick up another young guy or two to develop?
We gotta sign Doc.
Getting Smoot back is as absurd as remarrying your ex. You already know what she/he is and didn't want it. Now they have more miles on them you do want them???
It seems to me the policy of getting rid of people who have been here in favor of getting the new, more expensive shiny things is still alive and well.
London Fletcher is likely to be a Redskin soon.
Why? He's supposed to be durable and a good run stopper and he is a 'Greg Williams' guy. That's why.
Antonio Piece wasn't a Greg Williams guy.
London has played nine years, hasn't missed a game. In the NFL, that means he is a ticking time bomb way, way over due. 9 years.
All I remember of his Ram years was he was a smaller, quicker type guy who got pushed back when you had to have that one yard. Quick doesn't get better with age.
FWIW, Fletcher was an undrafted free agent.
We may not re-sign Dockery because he might be worth $12 mil, guaranteed, on the market. So what? We give away $10 mil to pretty much anybody for being average somewhere else. Why not 2 more for a guy who has actually proven himself, here? If he were someone else's free agent, we'd give up $12 mil to get him. We'd give him more than that.
Smoot might be coming back. It made no sense letting him go. It makes less getting him back.
Shaw Springs is like Dockery; apparently not worth keeping. He's our best cover guy, by far, and made the entire D better when he played. He's coming off a season slowed by that surgery which, by the way he finished the season, is just fine. It's just as reasonable to expect him to play a full season as it is Fletcher, or anyone else, at his age. Maybe more so. Why is your #1 corner worth planning on paying $7 mil when he reaches this point in the contract when you sign him, but no now, especially when he is still, by a good bit, your #1 corner? We'd pay $10 to get him if he wasn't ours. Hell, the paper says a possible replacement, Nat Clements, might get $20 mil somewhere.
Why the hell not just play Rocky, a first round pick, btw, and pick up another young guy or two to develop?
We gotta sign Doc.
Getting Smoot back is as absurd as remarrying your ex. You already know what she/he is and didn't want it. Now they have more miles on them you do want them???
It seems to me the policy of getting rid of people who have been here in favor of getting the new, more expensive shiny things is still alive and well.
Thought you might like this. Here is the song.. So get down with your bad self.. 
It sucks to be a diehard Redskins fan. 