Re: The Roster Equation: Depth or Special Teams Demons
Man this is a good one ! When I first read this thread I thought about how for the past couple of years Ade Jimoh has been a guy that you make jokes about because he stunk covering receivers. Besides the every now and then "Who was that ADE ?" play. Now over the years he has improved greatly. He's not a Shut Down Dieon Bailey-Green-Law or anything but he can cover a guy pretty well now. As we all know he is a beast on Special Teams but I think it's good you keep a guy like him as well as Khari Cambell because these are your core Redskins. These are the guys who know they don't have the overall talent as the starters but they bust their asses to stay on the team.
We had a guy named Darneiran McCants ( Sp ? ) who I f'n loved ! That guy was a baller in the making, he was supposed to play the Art Monk role in Joe Gibbs offense but his main setback was that he didn't play Teams. What Gibbs did there was he showed his loyalty for those core guys. The ones that don't make a whole lot of bread but they play like they know they should be. Khari isn't all that bad in spurts on defense. Those two are Redskins, I'm not saying that the higher paid guys are not but you need those team veterans sometimes. To show that the coaches are not lying when they say they are trying to build a team to compete for years to come. Now all we have to do is get them to do that with the stars they bring up through the system. If you're playing Madden and you're killing your homie 35-3 you don't say alright let me give some points back because I think I can win without them. Hopefully someone caught that if not,.... I apologize...believe me I do. But if you got that then you get my point. Once we get that down pact then the Skins will be in great shape.
Think if Pierce, Clark, and Smoot were still here ? How would we be ? One cannot predict the future but seriously. We hold onto Robert Royal and we jave a guy who would drop the flu but he busted his tail for the team, what if he was out there on offense ? He was a good run blocker and could provide a play or two from time to time. We've got a couple of corners that have to stink for Jimoh to play a lot of defensive miniutes anyway. This year you had Springs go down for 1, then you have Carlos Rogers playing like crap, then you have Pierson Preilou out for the year, no Walt Harris, not to mention the guys who were supposed to replace Harris, Preilou, and Springs in Rogers,Wright, Rumph, Archuletta, then the aformentioned Ade Jimoh.
Had we had the quality depth that we did before compared to this one then things may have went but a little bit smoother. I know Walt Harris became all world this year but when he was here he could play a little, at times he could make you want him to start but the familiarity of the defense and the bond with the teammates is something that this team is missing. Resigning Betts was good in my opinion, keeping Dockery will be as well. It's time they do what they said they would do and that's make The Washington Redskins a team again.
HAIL TO THE REDSKINS !!!!!!
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