I am Impressed Am Excitied With All The Young Guys Stepping Up This Year

^you guys think Carlos is gone for sure?

Yes. He's 30, NOT improving yearly, can cover but can't catch and has the ego to demand more money than he's worth.

Hopefully WE won't bet he team to overpay him. If somehow he wants to stay around for a low price, sure...keep him, he's good at coverage. But, I don't see that happening, now is his only chance to test the FA market and get paid for the last time in his career.

Redskins in-house replacements -- defense (http://www.csnwashington.com/02/17/11/Redskins-in-house-replacements--defense/landing.html?blockID=412378&feedID=6355)

NT Anthony Bryant—Is 165 snaps (out of 1,088 defensive snaps in 2010 (http://www.csnwashington.com/02/17/11/pages/landing?blockID=386023), 16.2 percent) at nose tackle enough for the Redskins to figure out if Bryant is starter material? That is a huge question this offseason and a lot of what the organization does will pivot on the answer. If Bryant, 29, can start and play as well as he did the last couple of games of the season, the focus will be on getting a backup nose tackle. Should Jim Haslett and Mike Shanahan be uncomfortable with the notion of relying on Bryant, who had all of nine games with three starts under his belt in four NFL seasons coming into 2010, as the starter, major resources will have to go to finding a reliable first-string nose tackle.

DE Jeremy Jarmon—The 2010 season essentially was lost for Jarmon. While recovering from major knee surgery he converted from defensive end to linebacker and then back to end. He ended up playing just 69 snaps, about one game’s worth. At 283, he’s light for a 3-4 defensive end, who usually run 300 pounds and up. But he has good athletic ability and the coaches are likely to give him every chance to be a key reserve, and perhaps a starter.

LB Perry Riley—This is another reserve who saw very limited playing time last year, just 10 snaps on defense. Still, there is likely to be a need at inside linebacker as starter Rocky McIntosh is expected to head to greener pastures on a team that will let him play outside backer in a 4-3 scheme. He made a few plays when he was in the lineup but, again, that’s an extremely small sample size. The Redskins drafted him hoping that he could fill a hole created by the possible departure of McIntosh and Riley will be a candidate for more playing time, if not as a starter.

LB Rob Jackson—Stop me if you’ve heard this before—Jackson is a young defensive player who will be evaluated based on very little playing time. He has just 10 games of playing time under his belt in since being a seventh-round pick in what has been a mostly disappointing 2008 draft class and he didn’t have a regular role on defense until late last year. Three tackles and one sack in two games make for a pretty thin stat line. The team needs another pass rusher opposite Brian Orakpo and while it would be nice if Jackson could fill that spot it is unlikely that they will count on him to be a starter. Still, he could have some good value in certain situational packages.

CB Kevin Barnes—He showed some versatility last year when injuries forced him into the starting lineup as a safety. Barnes made some plays there, including an overtime interception in Jacksonville that set up the game-winning score. Still, his future is at cornerback and his opportunity may come this year as two of the top three corners, Carlos Rogers and Phillip Buchanon, are free agents. Barnes played 306 snaps last year, most of them in the last half of the season, and he played better as he got more experience.

CB Byron Westbrook—After two years on the practice squad and two years of contributing on special teams, is Westbrook ready to take the next step? He certainly has paid his dues and he has good speed, an element that largely is lacking on the Redskins’ defense. How the Redskins handle the cornerback spot will be an indication of how they plan to proceed going forward. If they trust Westbrook and Barnes to team with DeAngelo Hall as the top cornerbacks (or if they expend a high draft pick on a corner), they are on a youth movement. If they either re-sign Buchanon and/or Rogers or go the veteran free agent route, the signs will point towards being in a “win now” mode.

S Macho Harris—He played 15 games for the Eagles in 2009, starting eight at free safety. But nobody was in a great hurry to pick him up after the Eagles cut him before last season. Could one team’s trash end up being another team’s treasure? While he did not play much on defense for the Redskins, 69 snaps, the coaches certainly can use the video from his games with the Eagles to evaluate him and decide if he can be part of the mix in 2011.

Thanks for the reality check Buster. The title of this thread might as well read, 'I'm unimpressed and disugusted with the lack of talent on this team'. Yes, this year the team has many draft picks but, most of them are in the later rounds where you'll find more Eric Cooks, Selvish Capers, and Kareem Moores. Let's face it. There aren't a lot of late round picks who become perennial pro-bowlers.