#26 Landon Collins

A defensive back that is bad at covering receivers.
That is like a lawnmower that sucks at cutting grass.
You get rid of it.


Seriously isn’t rocket science. LC playing safety week after week truly begs the question…….
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS STAFF THINKING?

The move to LB is already underway

Why Washington moved Collins closer to line of scrimmage (https://www.nbcsports.com/washington/football-team/heres-why-washington-moved-landon-collins-closer-line-scrimmage)

But still, even at LB you have to cover sometimes

RR went to Collins in the offseason to get him to switch to LB, Collins said no. Im guessing RR didnt push it bc he didnt want to create locker room striff, alienate his vet ...

Hindsight, I think RR should have been more forceful. Everyone can see and agree what would have been best for the team is him taking LB snaps in TC and PS. Everyone except Collins.

Collins didnt put the team first. Thats a flag.

RR went to Collins in the offseason to get him to switch to LB, Collins said no. Im guessing RR didnt push it bc he didnt want to create locker room striff, alienate his vet ...

Hindsight, I think RR should have been more forceful. Everyone can see and agree what would have been best for the team is him taking LB snaps in TC and PS. Everyone except Collins.

Collins didnt put the team first. Thats a flag.

That is the biggest issue for me.. I was willing to put up with Collins' weaknesses as it can be masked most of time with right defense plays, but once I learned that he refused to switch, I lost the respect for him as a WFT player.

Last season, seventh-round pick Kam Curl not only stepped in for Collins but outplayed him. Curl won fans with his instinctual play and blitzing prowess, and in March, a fan direct-messaged Collins on Instagram to ask if he’d move to linebacker. Collins replied, “Not happening my guy,” though a month later, Coach Ron Rivera said Collins had spoken for himself, not the team. Two weeks later, defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio told the team’s website he expected Collins to remain at strong safety.

“I was just laughing at it,” Collins said of the linebacker speculation. “I was drafted as a safety, and that's where I was going to be. If somebody was to come talk to me about it, we would talk about it. That's about it. If we have packages to put me into play [at linebacker], I'm always open to it. I'd rather have us all DBs on the field anyway. The more DBs, the more merrier.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/05/25/landon-collins-washington-recovery-linebacker/

This is from May 2021, only thing I can find re him saying he wont move.

I heard RR in PS interview say the team approached him about moving to LB and Collins said no so they didnt push it.

Just play him near the LOS, get whatever you can out of this bad situation, move on in the offseason.

Grid Iron -- yeah I think Ive lost respect for him as well. We will see if he stays a quiet team player like Josh Norman when he got phased out in his last season here. Keep him on the active roster so he accrues his NFL pension in return for him being quiet and not a distraction.

Tell him where he's playing or sit him if he refuses. If Curl can play better, what do you lose over 11 remaining games where the situation is salvageable rather than keeping LC in purely because of how much he's paid? Assuming you can't trade LC ($) how much damage can you do by benching him the rest of the year? We're 2-4 with a tough stretch coming up, not 4-2. If they don't try new stuff soon, to turn this around, it will be too late to make it worth bothering.

Blackmon in Indy is out all year with torn Achilles. Wonder if they can ship Collins and do a cap deal that helps Indy out? I doubt it, but no harm in wishful thinking...

The move to LB is already underway

Why Washington moved Collins closer to line of scrimmage (https://www.nbcsports.com/washington/football-team/heres-why-washington-moved-landon-collins-closer-line-scrimmage)

But still, even at LB you have to cover sometimes

Just bumping my original post since it seems nobody is seeing it

As of now, Collins is still listed as the team's starting strong safety. Yet, in Washington's Week 6 loss to the Chiefs, Collins played in an almost exclusively hybrid linebacker role -- one where he lined up near the line of scrimmage -- with Curl and McCain playing the two traditional safety positions.

Landon Presser: https://www.hogshaven.com/2021/10/21/22738800/landon-collins-presser-do-i-like-playing-linebacker-no-not-at-all-but-if-i-need-to-ya-im-good-at-it

I asked Landon why he cares so much about being labeled a safety as opposed to a defender/linebacker/whatever other term.

Landon: "Because I was drafted as a what?"
Me: "Safety"
Landon: "I went to high school and I went to college as a... safety right? OK"

Pete Hailey