Redskins Release Torrence

Not surprised.
Torrence at his best is an OK 3rd or 4th corner. Tryon has a solid future, He just needs time. There is no way we can go with 6 corners, one of them had to get cut.


i gotta agree with you. the plan is prolly for hall and rogers to be the starting cbs next season with smoot being the #3 cb. springs will be let go.

of course this is dependant on hall playing at a high level.

I liked Leigh, he seemed like a hard worker and he really seemed to be stepping up this year. That said, he was a bit of a liability in coverage, and based on talent alone Hall is certainly an upgrade. Hopefully Hall will approach this as his last chance. It's a one year deal, and if he F's around here who's gonna give him the kind of contract he wants.

Talk about alienating the team, this was a dumb move. Torrence was a favorite of Gibbs and obviously the players, a pretty solid special teamer and getting better as a corner. Why cut this guy to sign a punk like Hall? Tryon should have been cut.

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I'm just a little surprised at this move. Because Torrence certainly isn't very much, ok teamer/bottom barrel corner. But he was serviceable now.

With that said. That is more than I can say for Tyron (Which I don't ever think will be any good) or Kelly standing on the sidelines with street cloths on.

I have never been a fan of Torrence for the record.

I don't think this Torrence move has any effect on anything, in the locker room or on the field, we need the next in line to step up and be a gunner.

Hall was brought here to play solid football and be a good teammate nothing more or less, it's a seven game trial.

Now we need a WR to replace Kelly and/or knows how to play football better than Thomas, for the stretch run. Both these kids might be ok down the road but we are getting no production out of Kelly and little to none out of Thomas.

Redskins Sign Hall, Release Torrence (http://www.redskins.com/gen/articles/Redskins_Sign_Hall__Release_Torrence_26837.jsp)

I'm certainly not crazy about this move, and from a purely on the field standpoint, the only thing this move does is shave two years off our CB situation. Hall is certainly no better (but likely not any worse) than Torrence at this point in their careers. So, yeah, Hall makes sense from a standpoint of needing to get deeper in the secondary, but this move just nullifies that.

And can we stop hating on Tryon for no reason now? The guy is under contract through 2010 and he's played about 5 downs in the NFL, and didn't blow a single coverage. So what's the deal?

wonder if dallas will pick up torrence?

Good question Tripp.

As fans we don't understand stuff like this but behind the scenes the NFL is still a business. The coaching staff had to have their reasons maybe a little backlash by the fans will get a solid answer....who knows. Torrence did allow Avery to catch that prayer from Bulger but i wouldn't pin the loss on him though considering the offense had 3 turnovers in that game. The big ? is who replaces him as the gunner on punts. I'm sure its not Hall.

The big ? is who replaces him as the gunner on punts. I'm sure its not Hall.

Kareem Moore?

If Hall can hold on to the ball, he should actually be returning punts.