Moss to sign "multiyear contract befitting a No. 1 wideout"
 

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According to sources, wide receiver Santana Moss, who was traded for wideout Laveranues Coles, will sign a rich, multiyear contract befitting a No. 1 wideout. Sources said after the March 5 trade, the Redskins and Moss's agent, Drew Rosenhaus, agreed on the parameters of an extension, and Washington is waiting to announce the deal after creating cap space.

According to one source, who requested anonymity because the new deal hasn't been announced, Moss will average more than the annual salary in Coles's original contract in Washington -- a seven-year deal worth $35 million that included a $13 million bonus. Rosenhaus, whose client was scheduled to earn about $450,000 in 2005, declined to comment last week. . . .

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Say what? I hope this isn't true.

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:frusty: :smashfrea

You have GOT to be kidding me.....

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OMG Snyder has far too much money to play around with.......

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so we got a worse wideout and we're going to pay him more money???

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It will be interesting to see how the contract actually breaks down year by year, how heavily backloaded it is

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That's friggin crazy. Once again, we won't pay guys like Pierce and Smoot, but we'll overpay outsiders. If this is true, I'm going to say Gibbs should resign as team President.

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im really not upset at all about this, if we are actually paying more for moss than coles. plus it only says the annual salary will be more, and nothing about the SB. lets just wait to see how it plays out, what it does to our cap space, etc. before we chase gibbs away from being team president

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Ugh - he hasn't done anything. Sign him to a deal based on past performance for 3 years. Then see how he does as a skin and work from there.

BAD NEWS!

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What, does Drew Rosenhaus have dirty pictures of Danny and the monkey boy? Jeeze. I expected him to re-sign, and that always comes with a bonus, but that sounds like a lot! I hope it's very much tied to injury incentives. If this guy gets hurt a lot, we need to cover our asses. When he's healthy, he's a good receiver and can fly. But wow. So much for cap space!

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coles managed to screw us again

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[QUOTE=aehs77]coles managed to screw us again[/QUOTE]


How is this Coles fault?


No way should we resign Moss to a richer contract than what Coles was on. I would make him play on his old contract and then resign him after the season. If he has a breakout year and we can't afford him, then let him go, but at least make him earn a deal.

WR is the most overrated position in the NFL. A good WR is easy to find.

I think this shows that we desperatley need a GM. Someone like Ron Wolf would be ideal, not sure what he is doing now.

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Also if this does happen i think it is a clear indication that we will not take a WR with our 1st rounder.


It makes no sense to have Moss on a huge deal and then draft a WR No9 who will also command a big deal.

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I had heard earlier that the deal would take place either after June 1st or after the season had begun. Which ever way it affected our cap status this year.

Moss is a pretty good reciever and rember he was playing in Paul Hacketts system which is a vertical offense a la Norv Turner. Recievers do not flourish in this schyme anymore as Safties and corners are smarter and faster. Defensive schemes have changed to so vertical just does not work. So in actuallity Moss might fit our system better then Coles. Both are good recievers so please do not claim we got a bad deal.

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So we can't pay Smoot too much because we didn't pay Springs too much.
But since we already paid Coles too much it's OK to pay Moss too much.

I don't get it.

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Have the Skins, since Snyder, ever gone into a season with just a little bit of cap space? This is just unbelievable to me. Moss is NOT a First Tier receiver.....he's just not. As a free agent he'd have gotten as much interest as Burress is getting right now.

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They must really see something in Moss that no one else does.

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Or maybe they're trying a preemptive strike, hoping to sign him now before he has his "break out" year next year and asks for even MORE money.

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[QUOTE=Big C]im really not upset at all about this, if we are actually paying more for moss than coles. plus it only says the annual salary will be more, and nothing about the SB. lets just wait to see how it plays out, what it does to our cap space, etc. before we chase gibbs away from being team president[/QUOTE]

Seriously, let's wait and see how it plays out.

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Also, by the way the off-season has gone so far. I'm impressed with how Gibbs has handled it.

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[QUOTE=AndySkinUK]WR is the most overrated position in the NFL. A good WR is easy to find.[/QUOTE]

Tell that to the pre-TO Eagles, the Ravens, Falcons, post-TO 49ers, etc.

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[QUOTE=rickmmrr]So we can't pay Smoot too much because we didn't pay Springs too much.
But since we already paid Coles too much it's OK to pay Moss too much.

I don't get it.[/QUOTE]

It's seems like they're also saying that the top corner on the team is not as valuable as the top receiver. I know I'm biased toward Springs, but I think we need him more than Moss right now.

Either way, I agree with waiting to see how it all plays out though

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Impressed Malcolm? On our unwillingness to up our ante just a bit to sign a team veteran and great player? Or maybe it the 9M cap hit we took to get a mediocre WR. I'm just not impressed with a lot of the talent we brought in. I would have been happy just retaining most of our team. The comments about "well we can't pay Smoot more than Springs." Marcus Washington had a much better year than LaVar, should we swap their contracts? Doubt that's going to happen.

Also, AndyskinUK. Do you want to risk him fitting into the system well and having a great year and have gone through all this mess just to get nothing in return and not be able to keep him when he leaves? I'm all for giving him an extention, but lets give him one he deserves.

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Someone was worried about Drew Rosenhaus having pictures of Danny and Monkey Boy as his leverage for such contractual considerations. You'd best hope that is not the case because Rosenhaus is the agent for Sean Taylor - who is not happy with his contract that still has four years to run - and for Clinton Portis who had some issues with the playcalling of the coach last year. (Didn't some WR have a similar complaint and he was traded away after being threatened with suspensions and no playing time?)