Fixing the Secondary

Skins need to utilize the talent that they have:
cut/release: Merriweather
sign: FS
resign: Hall
Build with: Crawford, Amerson, Minnefield. Biggers, Thomas, Rambo

Improve the players that are here, give them an opportunity to get better, and put them in position to be good

Biggers has got to go. He is little more than a speed bump. I'm tired of DB's who can't tackle.

Nahhh Doughty people?? Lol let him walk. Its time. Do we wanna fix this or not??

Resign Hall, Meriweather.
Add Verner & Byrd... omg... we could rely on Kerrakpo to force qb mistakes and were dominant. Big Barry still fills our gap up the middle still. Let Riley do his thing. Ends would be our concern but theres some cheap options we could look at.

Nahhh Doughty people?? Lol let him walk. Its time. Do we wanna fix this or not??

Resign Hall, Meriweather.


Reed is a back up. Why do you guys keep referring to him as if we're talking about a starting position. I seriously doubt you'll find a better backup safety than RD.


Anybody who advocates re-signing BM should be laughed at.

I would like to keep Doughty for special teams and as a serviceable back up. We need a hard hitting strong safety and a knowledgeable ball hawking free safety.
I would not be opposed to signing a player like Ryan Clark to teach Phillip Thomas and Rambo the nuances of playing in the Steelers 3-4. That is the defense that our D is based on.

I would go all out to sign Jairus Byrd. He is easily the best FS (and one of the best players) available in FA. Signing him would provide a huge upgrade to our secondary.

Reed is a back up. Why do you guys keep referring to him as if we're talking about a starting position. I seriously doubt you'll find a better backup safety than RD.


Anybody who advocates re-signing BM should be laughed at.

Exactly.....why would you want to release one of our best backups?
Hes also a class act, if his jersey ever goes on sale I'm grabbing one.

There is speculation that Byrd will be franchised again by the Bills. I do think he is one of the Redskins top 5 targets Free Agents not already on the team.

I would go all out to sign Jairus Byrd. He is easily the best FS (and one of the best players) available in FA. Signing him would provide a huge upgrade to our secondary.

There's a few problems with signing a big name FA like Bryd or Verner. If you sign one of those guys, plus resign Orakpo and Riley, that's a huge chunk of cap space gone. I'm no cap expert, but that would be well over half the available space. And you still have a lot of players to resign, and a lot of other units to upgrade. Now, I'm in favor of pursuing Verner, but I don't know how wise it would be.

The other thing is that in a few years we're going to need some cap space available to resign Griffin. We might not want to have multiple other huge contracts.

There's a few problems with signing a big name FA like Bryd or Verner. If you sign one of those guys, plus resign Orakpo and Riley, that's a huge chunk of cap space gone. I'm no cap expert, but that would be well over half the available space. And you still have a lot of players to resign, and a lot of other units to upgrade. Now, I'm in favor of pursuing Verner, but I don't know how wise it would be.

The other thing is that in a few years we're going to need some cap space available to resign Griffin. We might not want to have multiple other huge contracts.

I agree, while the secondary is a huge concern the primary focus has to be the o line. If we don't give RG3 some time we are only going to get worse.

There's a few problems with signing a big name FA like Bryd or Verner. If you sign one of those guys, plus resign Orakpo and Riley, that's a huge chunk of cap space gone. I'm no cap expert, but that would be well over half the available space. And you still have a lot of players to resign, and a lot of other units to upgrade. Now, I'm in favor of pursuing Verner, but I don't know how wise it would be.

The other thing is that in a few years we're going to need some cap space available to resign Griffin. We might not want to have multiple other huge contracts.

I agree, while the secondary is a huge concern the primary focus has to be the o line. If we don't give RG3 some time we are only going to get worse.