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Originally Posted by sportscurmudgeon
MIke Barrow was last year's version of Dave Fiore. Barrow and Fiore had long and solid and productive careers in the NFL and were willing to come play here for not a backbreaking amount of money. The reason they would take less than huge money is that both Barrow and Fiore had mileage [translation: wear and tear] on them. And unfortunately, both of them got hurt here and never gave the Redskins anything that even resembled what they had accomplished prior to coming to Washington.
This is NOT something to beat up the FO about. They made good signings with both of these guys but the "football gods" did not smile on the Skins in those situations. Neither guy is the reason the Skins are having "cap difficultes". The FO took a shot at two productive players who had some injury history; in both cases, they crapped out. Hi Ho!
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on the flip side, springs and harris were also (relatively) cheap gambles that did work... they don't have barrow type mileage though
sh*t happens... but i don't have any problems or regrets with those signings unlike the massive deals to over the hill guys like bruce smith and mark brunell :P