Linebacker and Kicker

[MTK]

Teams typically go to camp with multiple kickers. It helps keep them fresh and avoids injury, but more than anything I think it's just to give them some company in camp while everyone else is working their tails off. LOL

[diehardskin2982]

most kickers may be unofficially with the team while the season progresses. he then gets signed in the mist of injury.

[TheMalcolmConnection]

I wouldn't say cut him. We have to have SOME kind of backup. We saw how Kimrin did last year.

[bigm29]

well he can be unofficial like diehardskin2982 said. Just like Ola was last year

[TheMalcolmConnection]

And then he can leave the country like Ola. That a way to lose your job there buddy.

[Daseal]

Malcolm - are you going to hang around in Sweeden for the chance that the kicker for the exhaulted Sweedish Spooners gets hurt? Doubt it. You'd probably come home and you know, make some money.

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by WRedskins04

Since we just signed Brain Allen should we still get a linebacker in the draft and Redskins resigned Jeff Chandler so do we keep John Hall or what?

What he lacks in athletic ability he makes up for in smarts

[jrocx69]

actually allen is a hustle guy, and with williams as our DC, anything can happen. he went to FSU and is a 5th year guy out of FSU and was named 2nd team all acc his senior year. he has also made several starts with the panthers as a OLB and last was the leading tackler for the panthers last year on SP that was ranked 5th overall last season.

[jrocx69]

oh yeah, he was drafted in '01 by the rams in the third rd

[sportscurmudgeon]

jrocx69:

Thanks for the info on Brian Allen. I would not have guessed FSU as his school for a long time.

I have no recollection of him with the Rams; did he ever play there? Was he there for their Super Bowl team? I don't remember any of that...

I have no doubt that he can help the special teams here - partially because the special teams here were not very good last year. My comment had to do with him starting and playing lots of snaps as linebacker. For that to happen, Arrington and/or Washington and/or Marshall and/or Clemons will have to be out of action. That would be a disaster for the team and the season would be hugely disappointing if it were to happen.

[Daseal]

Didn't he also go to the Texans in the expansion draft? I think he went to either the Texans or the Ravens at some point. Could be wrong.

[Schneed10]

Curmudgeon, what kind of career run-down would you have given on Antonio Pierce before last season began? Might you have said that if Mike Barrow got hurt and Antonio Pierce was playing in his stead, the season would have gone down the drain? Or did you see Pierce's big season coming?

Sure, the Skins were bad last year, but not because of the defense. TAFKAS is right, you never know.

That doesn't mean we should expect anything more than good special teams play from him. But I've never met someone who could accurately predict the way an NFL season is going to go. You just never know.

[MTK]

Allen was signed to help shore up the special teams unit and that's about the extent of this signing.

There's plenty of depth ahead of him, I highly doubt we'll see him on the field much unless we're decimated by injuries.

[SantanaMan]

I see Allen coming in to help shore up our Special Teams tackling - its 1/3 of the game of football, but so oftentimes overlooked, a missed tackle can lead to REAL bad things. If he ends up playing a lot then I'd say we are looking at another bad season, but he COULD in theory have a Antonio Pierce type year!

On another note I remember seeing somewhere that Todd Franz might not make it with the Packers, would you guys bring him back for ST work?

[Daseal]

I would. I think Franz is decent, and we're in need of DBs -- he knows the system.