Archuleta traded to Bears for 6th round pick

PP is a nice guy who cant start at safety in the NFL....please dont argue this point because hes spent 9 years in the league and never started plus he tore his acl last year meaning he wont be 100 percent until a year for now, its a two year injury....ARCH is gone and his money with him (we hope). SO NOW WE DRAFT LANDRY WITH 6 OR 8 which ever we have come draft day.

PP is a nice guy who cant start at safety in the NFL....please dont argue this point because hes spent 9 years in the league and never started plus he tore his acl last year meaning he wont be 100 percent until a year for now, its a two year injury....ARCH is gone and his money with him (we hope). SO NOW WE DRAFT LANDRY WITH 6 OR 8 which ever we have come draft day.

I'll argue the point becuase he has started in his career. Plenty of times. You're right about the ACL though. That could be a while.

PP is a nice guy who cant start at safety in the NFL....please dont argue this point because hes spent 9 years in the league and never started plus he tore his acl last year meaning he wont be 100 percent until a year for now, its a two year injury....ARCH is gone and his money with him (we hope). SO NOW WE DRAFT LANDRY WITH 6 OR 8 which ever we have come draft day.

Well I don't need to argue it because he started in Buffalo and he started for us a lot in '05. Your point on the knee is right on though.

edit: I swear smootsmack and I are different people. Even though we made the same post at the same time.

My brother is convinced we are going to pull Laron Landry out of the magic draft hat. It's kind of like building a house from the top down.

I'll argue the point becuase he has started in his career. Plenty of times. You're right about the ACL though. That could be a while.


true and with the re-signing of stoudmire do we go after landry or do we still go after a stud d lineman i am caught between two worlds

No man named Landry should ever wear a Redskins uniform (RIP Tom)

Seriously though, we need help on the line. Landry will not make us a better team

ill make this short and sweet because i know this is going to get ripped but....we'd be crazy not to sign LaRon Landry...guy is in the mold of Sean Taylor but FASTER...i know everyone is clamoring about the D line but think about it...with athletic safeties like that u could potentially bring two line backers in a blitz every down!! I m sure Greg Williams can come up with some real chaotic and exotc blitz packages if he didnt have to worry about downfield coverage.

Good move glad to see he's gone.one less thing to worry about for next year.The Skins relize that we aren't going to us him and he was a bust.So they did what the could to fix it.Sounds like we came our pretty good.i could careless about the pick it was the contract i was worried about.Its sounds like they took care of that pretty good.Lets hope they take some of that money and give it to Cooley for a long term deal.

Kudos to the F.O.

Regarding Archuleta's contract, did you guys notice that his deal with Chicago will include $5 million in guarantees? So says the ESPN article.

$5 million is exactly what we owed him tomorrow when the second half of his guaranteed money was due to him.

I await the numbers from La Canfora, but I'd venture to guess that somehow the Skins managed to transfer that $5 million payment over to the Bears. If true, the 'Skins would be taking a $4 million dead cap hit this year on Archuleta, meaning making the trade only ate up $1.7 million of incremental cap space, meaning we'd be sitting here with about $8 million in 2007 cap space.

Wow! I just saw this now.

Schneed, looks like you were right on. From the Post:

washingtonpost.com (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/20/AR2007032001919.html)

"The Redskins and Archuleta agreed to postpone his original deadline of March 12 to receive his bonus payment in order to facilitate a trade, and the Bears, whose coach, Lovie Smith, has a strong relationship with the safety from their time together in St. Louis, ultimately agreed to pick up that $5 million payment as part of the deal, sources said, beating today's new deadline for the option."

IMO this is UNBELIEVABLE!!! Snyder pulled a real coup here. I don't know how we convinced them to give us a 6th rounder AND take the $5M bonus payment.

Maybe CC knows if such a transfer of guaranteed payments can be done under the new collective bargaining agreement?

I didn't know they could but I'm loving it!

I'm not sure if it's a change in the CBA, or if Snyder's just getting smarter with the signing bonuses, but it's been a trend with our recent signings. Arch, Randle-El, Carter, Lloyd, Samuels, Rabach, Patten, Jansen, Thomas, Moss, Taylor all had their signing bonuses split over the first 2 years of the contract. I figured this was just a way to delay some money past the current year, but now I see how valuable it can be. If you screw up on a guy (Arch), you still have time to recoup some of the signing bonus.

As Frank the Tank once said, "It's genius!"