Jansen's Future in Doubt?

Wade was pretty solid from what we saw last year, we would have to re-sign him if Jansen is let go. There's gotta be more to Jansen's situation to bring this on. Definitely something to keep an eye on.

Yep. Anyone looking for insight into Jansen's future should just focus on how the skins deal with Wade.

Here is when you start to worry about Jansen leaving or Dockery going elsewhere:

Stories start to appear in the Post and the Times and on Triple XXX Radio about how Jansen and/or Dockery is stubborn and/or not amenable to coaching and/or annoying to his teammates and/or has bad body odor.

That's what the Skins do when they are about to cut ties with players that have been around for a while; they trash them in the press to "soften the blow" for the fans. None of that has happened yet.

If it does, then you can look for the named player to be moving on...

Here is when you start to worry about Jansen leaving or Dockery going elsewhere:

Stories start to appear in the Post and the Times and on Triple XXX Radio about how Jansen and/or Dockery is stubborn and/or not amenable to coaching and/or annoying to his teammates and/or has bad body odor.

That's what the Skins do when they are about to cut ties with players that have been around for a while; they trash them in the press to "soften the blow" for the fans. None of that has happened yet.

If it does, then you can look for the named player to be moving on...

That is funny, sad, and unfortunately true.

Buges would never trash his guys, but I can see an "unnamed source" starting to drop nuggets to the press about how certain guys aren't "character" guys, or how they aren't getting along with coaches. Nothing like some rumors about a guy being a bad "locker room presence" to soften their FA value.

Jansen needs to restructure. His play has really declined the last couple of years. I think the skins may look to upgrade at RT.

Yeah, Jansen is such a cool guy and interesting radio/tv personality that you can't help but root for him, but his play has suffered.

Still, the o-line was killing people the second half of the season. Bad year for the team, but they were dominant.

Maybe I missed somthing, but I saw nothing in that article other than they were going to approach Jansen for a restructure, did I miss somthing?

I'm with you Gmanc

I think they would cut Brunell before they let Jansen go. I'm not too worried about them letting, what, the longest tenured Skin go.

He'll be around, count on that.

Tenure means nothing around here. I would like to see Jansen stay but how many guys coming off of bad seasons will get to stick around with huge cap numbers? Also, isn't it three years in a row that he has been injured? Even though he was able to play through it, that can't be a good sign. I don't think that it is unreasonable at all to ask him to restructure. He is able to help the team and the team helps him.

Looking at the Redskins Cap, this may sound silly but they are in great shape. They are currently 2.9 over (not counting Thrash's savings). If they didn't restructure one contract (which they will) they could cut Wynn and John Hall and be about 1.4 under. Not to mention, if you look at Canuck's sheet, there are 63 players on there. So the rumor that they will be scrambling to field a team just isn't true. Now, the depth isn't anything to write home about but at least they have some flexibility.

I forget which article it was but the one that said (paraphrasing) "the only reason a big name would go is if they choose to let them go" is spot on. The cap won't be driving that decision.

I love seeing a low dead cap number. It prevents your hands from being tied. I almost hope that if they release Brunell, they do it before March 1st then that 3.1 won't be hanging over them next year (which looks to be a much more challenging year from a cap perspective. I see Portis gone after '07).

Even though Jansen is not "the player he was a few years ago" * , I think they should hold on to him as a utility backup lineman as they did with Jacoby in the late eighties and early nineties. There is no reason that Jansen couldn't back up at both Tackle and Guard.

*Former Dallas Coach Bill Parcells to the New York Times which is his favorite newspaper which is how we know he's gay.