Should Dockery Be Re-signed Before Free Agency Starts (next Friday)

There is still time. Perhaps the FO has set a limit on Dock and Dock and his agent are asking for more than the limit. That's what it looks like to me.

Perhaps another guard is on the FO's radar. If they let him walk then so be it. If they want a more mobile guard it would not bother me. Saunders likes to run the sweep plays and that's not what Dock is good at. Versatility is what Saunders is all about.

Washington needs to resign Dock for no other reason than to show the locker room that they are willing to take care of their own. You hear Coach Gibbs talk about core redskins then you watch them throw loads of money at some big name free agent while forgetting about the core redskins, you can't underestimate what this does to a locker room. I hope that they have learned their lesson because if they haven't we could be in for another long long season.

Washington needs to resign Dock for no other reason than to show the locker room that they are willing to take care of their own. You hear Coach Gibbs talk about core redskins then you watch them throw loads of money at some big name free agent while forgetting about the core redskins, you can't underestimate what this does to a locker room. I hope that they have learned their lesson because if they haven't we could be in for another long long season.

Perhaps Dock is asking for too much.

There is still time. Perhaps the FO has set a limit on Dock and Dock and his agent are asking for more than the limit. That's what it looks like to me.

Perhaps another guard is on the FO's radar. If they let him walk then so be it. If they want a more mobile guard it would not bother me. Saunders likes to run the sweep plays and that's not what Dock is good at. Versatility is what Saunders is all about.Finding a starting caliber left guard on the market is not difficult, but it is crucial. If Dockery wanted to sign here, they would have worked something out by now.

I'm sure he'd like to see what his value on the market is before taking the Skins offer, and that's what the NFL combine is for.

Washington needs to resign Dock for no other reason than to show the locker room that they are willing to take care of their own. You hear Coach Gibbs talk about core redskins then you watch them throw loads of money at some big name free agent while forgetting about the core redskins, you can't underestimate what this does to a locker room. I hope that they have learned their lesson because if they haven't we could be in for another long long season.It's not like they don't want him back. If a deal doesn't get done, it's not any more our fault than his. From what I understand, we aren't lowballing him or anything. I just don't think he's going to sign here before talking to some other teams at the combine.

If he can find a very lucrative deal, he's gonna walk. The only thing that would be our fault is if we further compromised our future to prevent him from walking by coming over the top.

Conversely, if he finds that the market has little interest in him, I think he will be locked up through 2011 by this time next week.

I agree that you don't want to overpay for his services but this is the corner washington has painted itself into, if they don't resign him then they have to go out and sign someone else to start (because we haven't developed anyone behind him to step in and start, but thats another thread for another time) then you have to fight the preception that they won't take care of their own free agents. Because we all know that if he leaves the FO will go throw a lot of money at some other FA guard and then in a year from now we will be talking about Dockery just like Ryan clark.

This thread is just like the John Jansen thread and how he might be gone this year. Stop jumping to conclusions on everything that has or has not happened. I keep seeing people getting mad over things they "THINK" the skins might do and they have not done anything as of yet.

I agree that you don't want to overpay for his services but this is the corner washington has painted itself into, if they don't resign him then they have to go out and sign someone else to start (because we haven't developed anyone behind him to step in and start, but thats another thread for another time) then you have to fight the preception that they won't take care of their own free agents. Because we all know that if he leaves the FO will go throw a lot of money at some other FA guard and then in a year from now we will be talking about Dockery just like Ryan clark.I think from this standpoint, we are in the same boat as every other NFL franchise. There's going to be some resentment in every locker room if you let a high character guy walk, but that's just the nature of the game. It's February, guys will get over it. We just have to make sure to make the right business decision, and that's to not get desperate here. If Dockery is going to sign with the first team who gives him a big contract, hopefully that's not going to be us.

This thread is just like the John Jansen thread and how he might be gone this year. Stop jumping to conclusions on everything that has or has not happened. I keep seeing people getting mad over things they "THINK" the skins might do and they have not done anything as of yet.The difference is that Jansen was already under contract for next season. Had we taken the path of least action with JJ, he would have been back anyway. If we do that with Dockery, he's gone.

I wanted to start a dockery thread but i couldn't b/c I was eating pie and pondering Question 3.

I, too, am so glad a dockery thread was started so that I may make a comment in a dockery thread because, since i couldn't start a dockery thread, commenting in a dockery thread would a useful and intelligent way to spend my day. So I will proceed to make a comment in the dockery thread so that the dockery thread can continue to provoke deep and thoughtful discussion in the dockery thread as the dockery thread is an original and unique place to comment on dockery. So here is my comment in the dockery thread:

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