New Reason behind LaVar Arrington not playing early season!!

That is far fetch. If you over paid for a sports car would you just leave it parked because you were pissed you paid to much. NO! You would drive it. So why would Dan overpay Lavar then just bench him.


good point

That is far fetch. If you over paid for a sports car would you just leave it parked because you were pissed you paid to much. NO! You would drive it. So why would Dan overpay Lavar then just bench him.

Because...Dan Snyder doesn't like riding Lavar Arrington?

I don't beleive that that is what took place here, I just feel that the reality of Lavar and the fact that he stinks has finally come to roost

Intelligent comment. So by this logic, Gibbs and company realized how much LaVar sucked at the beginning of the season, but it somehow completely slipped their minds around week seven. Correct?

And as far as the Snyder theory, that was my original theory from the start, which I based on Snyders handling of previous situations involving players and money. Even after all of the comments from LaVar and the coaches, I still think there is a 50/50 shot that Snyder was involved.

I don't beleive that that is what took place here, I just feel that the reality of Lavar and the fact that he stinks has finally come to roost.

Kind of like that pass to Gates in overtime which put the chargers in position to beat us, Gates releases over to Lavars side while Lavar stands there watching the QB like the dummy he is, rather than going after and covering Gates, considering he was the last line of defense on that side of the field on that play, it was pretty typical of the types of things Lavar does on an every game basis, that's why he waesn't on the field, those types of mistakes which he makes over, and over, and over again.

I remember that play. Dont know who was to be covering Gates because him and Taylor blitzed on the same side at the same time. So one of the two should have been covering him. I would have imagined it would have been taylor since he has far better cover skills than Lavar.

I remember that play. Dont know who was to be covering Gates because him and Taylor blitzed on the same side at the same time. So one of the two should have been covering him. I would have imagined it would have been taylor since he has far better cover skills than Lavar.


Lavar didn't blitz on that play, and he was the only one in that area, and he stood there while Gates went uncovered.

if the media knew it why didn't they say it all over every media outlet. There was a rumor that we here and people everywhere talked about but i don't believe it for a second. Lavar was hurt and when he got better he was not ready to start

Intelligent comment. So by this logic, Gibbs and company realized how much LaVar sucked at the beginning of the season, but it somehow completely slipped their minds around week seven. Correct?

And as far as the Snyder theory, that was my original theory from the start, which I based on Snyders handling of previous situations involving players and money. Even after all of the comments from LaVar and the coaches, I still think there is a 50/50 shot that Snyder was involved.


Intelligent reply, so by your logic we don't need coaches to teach players to be better player's, by having the coaches work with him from the beggining of the season, and then spoon feed him into the defense to see how he will react, is not something coaches should have been working with him on trying to salvage this guys carreer? It seems they have more confidence in C. Clemons these day's then they do in Arrington.

As far as Snyder is concerned, I guess Gibbs is a liar when he said he has total control over the franchise as far as it concerns on field football matters, and personel, especially when he say's it sitting next to Snyder, and yes Snyder agrees.

The bottom line is Williams was not going to hand Lavar a starting job just because his name is Lavar Arrington, he treated him like anyone else on the defense, and forced him to prove he belongs out there, and guess what when you remove the personality of Lavar, your left with a highly overated football player who was easily replaced by the likes of Lamar Marshall last season, and now C. Clemons.

Give me C. Clemons on passing down's over Lavar any day of the week!

This was very interesting news that I thought should be shared with my fellow Skins fans. We all remember back in the early weeks of the season when LaVar Arrington was riding the bench and all the rumors of why he was not playing were flying around. Well I got some interesting news recently. I was attending my family reunion last weekend and talking Redskins with one of my distant realtives. He is employed by Washington based radio station WTOP. He was telling me that some of the sports guys around the station were talking about the real reason LaVar wasn't playing. If you think back to the offseason the was a big dispute between LaVar and Dan Snyder over like 8 million that LaVar was supposedly owed. This dispute went to arbritation and LaVar ended up being awarded the money. Well suppoedly Dan Snyder was not to pleased with this decision and told Joe Gibbs that he had to bench LaVar for a few weeks. This story seems to fit and would make sense if Snyder was really pissed about the decision. Also the source which this comes from is a reliable one in WTOP. This is one scenario that may never be proven since Snyder would do his best to cover this up. I think this is an interesting topic to discuss so.....Discuss.
I deem this the Retarded Post of the Week. The RPW is awarded in this case for several reasons.
Reason 1: Umm this discussion has been had...and had....and had.....and had again. It is now downrght ridculous to even bring it up at this point since he is playing and we are in the playoff hunt with a big game coming.
Reason 2: The logic behind the theory is idiotic. Why would they sit a guy they were paying a lot? To get nothing out of him? Sounds like a briilliant plan to me!
Reason 3: This is the capper. It was widely reported that the dispute was settled amicably between Lavar and the Skins. On top of that Lavar admitted weeks later that he had overreacted in the situation which would lead you to believe that he thinks the reason he was sitting had nothing to do with money. I don't think he'd have admitted overreacting if he wasn't playing based on the issue you raised.

I have to agre with Offiss this ain't a conspiricity theory of no sort Williams plays the best players dispite his name or if his a first round pick ( Rogers ) all players have to prove they belong in his scheme and LaVar does a lot of free style for Williams liking he might make some great plays but also give away a lot of costly big one being the gates that everyone has called an example anyway his a diference maker and help pump up the defense the D changed 180 after he came back they played with more fierce .

How does benching a key player satisfy Snyder? Even if Snyder wanted it, I don't think Gibbs and/or Williams would have agreed to it. They all want to win games (including Snyder), and having LaVar playing gives us a better chance. I believe LaVar didn't play because he wasn't 100% healthy from his surgery. Williams hinted few times, that he didn't practice full-speed. Later on, even LaVar admitted that when he watched some films on him, he wasn't running full-speed.

Also, Arrington failing to cover Gates.....not too many players can cover Gates on consistent basis. Besides, ability to drop back and cover was never Arrington's strong points.