I can't believe what I'm hearing in Redskins land
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18484-2005Mar8.html
You have got to be kidding me.
12 months ago Antonio Pierce was a back up OLB on the Redskins. And now he's supposed to be this irreplacable player that the Skins couldn't afford to lose?
This reminds me more of the Redskins signing Jeremiah Trotter away from the Eagles. And we all know how that one worked out.
12 months ago we also had people saying that the Redskins defense was doomed because they were replacing Champ Bailey with "injury prone" Shawn Springs at CB.
That seemed to work out, OK.
The bottom line is that I don't see Pierce or Smoot or Coles as irreplacable.
I also don't see the newly found fiscal responsibility as a bad thing.
Just look at the two teams that played for the Vince Lombardi Trophy this past season. Both the New England Patriots and the Philadelphia Eagles built their teams based on being fiscally responsible. Sure, the Eagles went outside that gameplan a bit last offseason with the additions of TO and Jevon Kearse. But, they were able to make those impact moves because of how they ran things leading up to last offseason.
And while I've said before that I think Joe Gibbs needs a real GM to help him out, those comments were based on what happened last offseason and not what has happened this offseason.
About the only move that I can criticize so far this offseason is trading Coles for Santana Moss over taking Coles up on the offer to forgo the $5 million deferred signing bonus payment and saving themselves a healthy chunk of cap space this offseason.
I'm not sure that Moss will be worth that much to this team given his injury history and the fact that he's not the toughest WR in the NFL.
But, the decisions to not pay Pierce more than Pro Bowl OLB Marcus Washington and to not pay Fred Smoot more than #1 CB Shawn Springs were solid moves, IMO.
Reebok signs up hockey's Next One
http://en.rbkhockey.com/news/read.php?pr_id=205
Hockey's biggest phenom, Sidney Crosby, has signed a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract to endorse Reebok hockey equipment.
This is easily the biggest move that the sporting goods giant has made since acquiring The Hockey Company. Crosby has been touted as the LeBron James of hockey and has been compared to players like Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux.
At a minimum, the kid has a ton of talent and has the charm and charisma to be a media darling in the future.
It will be interesting to see how far Reebok goes to push Crosby into the mainstream in North America.
You have got to be kidding me.
12 months ago Antonio Pierce was a back up OLB on the Redskins. And now he's supposed to be this irreplacable player that the Skins couldn't afford to lose?
This reminds me more of the Redskins signing Jeremiah Trotter away from the Eagles. And we all know how that one worked out.
12 months ago we also had people saying that the Redskins defense was doomed because they were replacing Champ Bailey with "injury prone" Shawn Springs at CB.
That seemed to work out, OK.
The bottom line is that I don't see Pierce or Smoot or Coles as irreplacable.
I also don't see the newly found fiscal responsibility as a bad thing.
Just look at the two teams that played for the Vince Lombardi Trophy this past season. Both the New England Patriots and the Philadelphia Eagles built their teams based on being fiscally responsible. Sure, the Eagles went outside that gameplan a bit last offseason with the additions of TO and Jevon Kearse. But, they were able to make those impact moves because of how they ran things leading up to last offseason.
And while I've said before that I think Joe Gibbs needs a real GM to help him out, those comments were based on what happened last offseason and not what has happened this offseason.
About the only move that I can criticize so far this offseason is trading Coles for Santana Moss over taking Coles up on the offer to forgo the $5 million deferred signing bonus payment and saving themselves a healthy chunk of cap space this offseason.
I'm not sure that Moss will be worth that much to this team given his injury history and the fact that he's not the toughest WR in the NFL.
But, the decisions to not pay Pierce more than Pro Bowl OLB Marcus Washington and to not pay Fred Smoot more than #1 CB Shawn Springs were solid moves, IMO.
Reebok signs up hockey's Next One
http://en.rbkhockey.com/news/read.php?pr_id=205
Hockey's biggest phenom, Sidney Crosby, has signed a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract to endorse Reebok hockey equipment.
This is easily the biggest move that the sporting goods giant has made since acquiring The Hockey Company. Crosby has been touted as the LeBron James of hockey and has been compared to players like Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux.
At a minimum, the kid has a ton of talent and has the charm and charisma to be a media darling in the future.
It will be interesting to see how far Reebok goes to push Crosby into the mainstream in North America.
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