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skins052bgr8 · 03-10-2005, 08:19 AM

I hear people saying someone needs to learn to run the front office, have you given it any thought that this might be the right approach finally, with not giving in to these high salary demands and keeping core groups of players together. As much as they say they wanted to be core redskins take the good money and commit to that of what you were offered fair value to be with your team. I don't fault them, but come on the front office can only go so far and they have gone way beyond that in the past spending, put a stop to it and pay only what they deserve, not what the player thinks he deserves.

Smoot and Pierce made statements that the offers would have to be mind blowing for them to leave. The only person I heard that committed themselves to exactly that is a coach by the name of Gregg Williams who would have been in high demand this year, I'm sure. Smoot and Pierce figures were not off by that much, Smoot specifically 1 to 2 mil won't make me go. Right!!!

If we would have signed them to these deals in another year we would be having the same discussion about Springs and Marcus Washington and other players when they outplayed the other players again and playing for a lower salary. It goes on they finally have a plan to try to bring some unity between the players, but you can't sacrifice a team for a player. As much as I would have love to have brought all the players back and build onto that, but that is not how it works every team has to give up big name and key players every year.

Let's finally make up for the mistakes we have made for the last four or five years in our free agency purges. Money is really tight for the skins for the reasons everyone is arguing about. We have made a name for ourselves as big spenders and it will take a year or two to change that and gain key players because we are a winning organization and not a bank for people to come in for big contracts and then go back to other teams for alot less. Eagles/Patriots/Jets. Winning is the reason key players stay with those organizations. Their are money hungry players and indiviulist all through this league, but at leat two of those teams I names above you never hear year after year with a high turnover or off the wall moves. Bring in one or two key players a year to fill in those voids from the previous season.

03-10-2005, 08:19 AM	#13
skins052bgr8 Special Teams Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Richmond, Va. Age: 49 Posts: 288	Re: Can we stop now please? I hear people saying someone needs to learn to run the front office, have you given it any thought that this might be the right approach finally, with not giving in to these high salary demands and keeping core groups of players together. As much as they say they wanted to be core redskins take the good money and commit to that of what you were offered fair value to be with your team. I don't fault them, but come on the front office can only go so far and they have gone way beyond that in the past spending, put a stop to it and pay only what they deserve, not what the player thinks he deserves. Smoot and Pierce made statements that the offers would have to be mind blowing for them to leave. The only person I heard that committed themselves to exactly that is a coach by the name of Gregg Williams who would have been in high demand this year, I'm sure. Smoot and Pierce figures were not off by that much, Smoot specifically 1 to 2 mil won't make me go. Right!!! If we would have signed them to these deals in another year we would be having the same discussion about Springs and Marcus Washington and other players when they outplayed the other players again and playing for a lower salary. It goes on they finally have a plan to try to bring some unity between the players, but you can't sacrifice a team for a player. As much as I would have love to have brought all the players back and build onto that, but that is not how it works every team has to give up big name and key players every year. Let's finally make up for the mistakes we have made for the last four or five years in our free agency purges. Money is really tight for the skins for the reasons everyone is arguing about. We have made a name for ourselves as big spenders and it will take a year or two to change that and gain key players because we are a winning organization and not a bank for people to come in for big contracts and then go back to other teams for alot less. Eagles/Patriots/Jets. Winning is the reason key players stay with those organizations. Their are money hungry players and indiviulist all through this league, but at leat two of those teams I names above you never hear year after year with a high turnover or off the wall moves. Bring in one or two key players a year to fill in those voids from the previous season.