Smoot's Status with the Redskins

This defensive system we need great CBs. If we lose Smoot that's our #1 pick in the draft. ........

You are exactly right, our defense is built around our CB's being able to play one on one with the top WR's in this league.
Champ Bailey was the top DB in his draft.
Smoot was a Jim Thorpe Award finalist (given to the top defensive back in the country) and the top CB in his draft. So is Springs, but he is getting old and injury prone. If Smoot leaves we would be forced to pay big to replace him.

You guys all have very idealistic views about what the Washington Redskins are. This is NOT a winning team. This is NOT a loyal franchise. This is NOT a team, IMO, a team most players should want to play for. We hand out big contracts and within a few years we demand that that money get handed back or we'll cut the player. See: Stephen Davis or Chris Samuels or Bruce Smith. Somehow a lot of the fans seem to think that the loyal players will give the money back. The ones who are interested in being Redskins. However, if the FO were interested in them being Redskins throughout their contract, they wouldn't have made the damn thing suffocate them late in the cap.

All of you were pissed at Champ when he left, why? He didn't want to be here and, frankly, I don't blame him. The Skins wanted to make him one of the highest paid corners in the leage? No. They were backloading that contract just like they always do and they would have made him restructure or cut him towards the end of it. Champ went out and got a front loaded contract from the Broncos for about the same terms, why? So he can play the contract out. The Redskins disgust me with the way they do business and if I were a player, I wouldn't stay here either. So while all of you villify Smoot you need to take a look at the Front Office and the way they plan to structure the contract. The reason the Skins can sign so many people in the offseason with something like $10 mil in cap space is because most of the money in a contract comes at the end of the deal which is why players get cut. It's not just the Redskins by any means, but I think the Skins could be the worst offenders.

You guys all have very idealistic views about what the Washington Redskins are. This is NOT a winning team. This is NOT a loyal franchise. This is NOT a team, IMO, a team most players should want to play for. We hand out big contracts and within a few years we demand that that money get handed back or we'll cut the player. See: Stephen Davis or Chris Samuels or Bruce Smith. Somehow a lot of the fans seem to think that the loyal players will give the money back. The ones who are interested in being Redskins. However, if the FO were interested in them being Redskins throughout their contract, they wouldn't have made the damn thing suffocate them late in the cap.

All of you were pissed at Champ when he left, why? He didn't want to be here and, frankly, I don't blame him. The Skins wanted to make him one of the highest paid corners in the leage? No. They were backloading that contract just like they always do and they would have made him restructure or cut him towards the end of it. Champ went out and got a front loaded contract from the Broncos for about the same terms, why? So he can play the contract out. The Redskins disgust me with the way they do business and if I were a player, I wouldn't stay here either. So while all of you villify Smoot you need to take a look at the Front Office and the way they plan to structure the contract. The reason the Skins can sign so many people in the offseason with something like $10 mil in cap space is because most of the money in a contract comes at the end of the deal which is why players get cut. It's not just the Redskins by any means, but I think the Skins could be the worst offenders.


I agree that the Dan Snyder has not been Jack Kent Cooke. However the league also shares in creating this problem. The NFL created the F-ing Salary Cap in response to the free spending Jack Kent Cooke and the SB winning Redskins teams of the 80's and 90's. I think it was the 87 or 92 Redskins that had salaries adding up to nearly $80-$90 million, unheard of for those times. The other less wealthy team owners conspired to end Mr. Cooke's big spending and winning ways. Especially with unrestricted free agency coming, they were scared of JKC and his big money.
The first year of the salary cap the Skins started out something like $10 million over the cap and had to dismantle a veteran team.

Unproven rookies are coming into the league with huge conteracts while older proven veterans (fan favorites) are getting cut. The league created this shitty system not Snyder. Although, Snyder has played the ugliest under the new rules.
I think if there was no salary cap Snyder would act more like JKC.

I think Smoot is a good CB against opponent's #2 WR, but just an above-average CB against opponent's #1 receiver. (Remember what Torry Holt did to him during the pre-season game? And just last week "Meshawn" Johnson caught all passes thrown his way when Smoot was defending him). I would hate to see him go, but if he demands to be paid like a top-tier cornerbacks such as Bailey, McAllister, R Barber, I say let him walk.


End of story.

I agree that the Dan Snyder has not been Jack Kent Cooke. However the league also shares in creating this problem. The NFL created the F-ing Salary Cap in response to the free spending Jack Kent Cooke and the SB winning Redskins teams of the 80's and 90's. I think it was the 87 or 92 Redskins that had salaries adding up to nearly $80-$90 million, unheard of for those times. The other less wealthy team owners conspired to end Mr. Cooke's big spending and winning ways. Especially with unrestricted free agency coming, they were scared of JKC and his big money.
The first year of the salary cap the Skins started out something like $10 million over the cap and had to dismantle a veteran team.

Unproven rookies are coming into the league with huge conteracts while older proven veterans (fan favorites) are getting cut. The league created this shitty system not Snyder. Although, Snyder has played the ugliest under the new rules.
I think if there was no salary cap Snyder would act more like JKC.

Well said man. Agreed.