Special Teams

[Redskins8588]

Originally Posted by Skinsfanforlife

He was a great returner for the Jets, he hasn't done anything here..........

Thats true he has not done much here, but he cant be the whole return team also, our special teams have far ben steller as a whole since he has ben here. It takes all 11 guys to get it done if one fails the whole squad(SP) fails...

[SmootSmack]

On Mike and Mike earlier this week Joe Gibbs was on and he specifically said the later picks were to help Danny (Smith) and the special teams

[TheMalcolmConnection]

I'm glad he addressed that. If I remember correctly, we didn't do so well on kick and punt coverage.

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by TheMalcolmConnection

I'm glad he addressed that. If I remember correctly, we didn't do so well on kick and punt coverage.

We were Ranked as follows:
20 punt return
12 kickoff return
26 punt return defense
14 kickoff return defense
Post #2 had a link to an article on this

[Red Robert]

I think our special teams will be much stronger. Singing Pruliou(sp) from Buffalo. Since the off season several quiet moves plus the draft. I am not sure on Morton. How much cap relief will we get if we let him go? Is he worth another season in that reguard if he is under contract. I do not like Jeff Chandler . I hope Hall returns to form in camp this year.

[Redskins8588]

I dont think that Morton will be gone, I think that Morton and Brown will handle all return duties. I may be wrong but doesnt Gibbs like to do reverse's on kickoff return? I remember when we had D. Howard Gibbs did that a couple of time with him and Mitchell...

[Krills]

No way, Morton is history. I bet it'll be Antonio Brown and James Thrash taking over the return duties. You know Gibbs loves Thrash.

[Schneed10]

Cutting Morton now would hurt our 2005 salary cap. He is currently on our 2005 salary cap for $1.04 Million. Cutting him now would make his cap hit $1.5 Million, taking away $0.46 Million of our precious cap room, of which we have about $2 million (and we still need to deal with Santana Moss, Rod Gardner, and sign our rookies). Not gonna happen.

Cutting Morton after June 1 would be pretty smart though. His current '05 cap figure would go from $1.04 million, to $0.5 million, giving us an extra $0.54 million in room to play with. That would come in handy for dealing with the issues that face us. If we did this, we'd carry $1.0 million in dead cap money in 2006. But that is less than his scheduled $2.3 million 2006 figure.

I'd say there's a good chance we'll axe him after June 1.

[Redskins8588]

Originally Posted by Schneed10

Cutting Morton now would hurt our 2005 salary cap. He is currently on our 2005 salary cap for $1.04 Million. Cutting him now would make his cap hit $1.5 Million, taking away $0.46 Million of our precious cap room, of which we have about $2 million (and we still need to deal with Santana Moss, Rod Gardner, and sign our rookies). Not gonna happen.

Cutting Morton after June 1 would be pretty smart though. His current '05 cap figure would go from $1.04 million, to $0.5 million, giving us an extra $0.54 million in room to play with. That would come in handy for dealing with the issues that face us. If we did this, we'd carry $1.0 million in dead cap money in 2006. But that is less than his scheduled $2.3 million 2006 figure.

I'd say there's a good chance we'll axe him after June 1.

Why Rod Gardner? Isnt he in his last year of his contract?

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by Redskins8588

Why Rod Gardner? Isnt he in his last year of his contract?

Yes he is. I just meant that they still have to decide what they're going to do with him. I think they were counting on trading him to get the $1.5 million in cap room it would save, but since they weren't able to, now they have only about $2 million to sign Moss and the rookies. I wouldn't rule out Gardner getting axed outright, because they might need the cap room that bad.

[dirtbag2112]

I would make a good special teams player...people tell me I'm special all the time.

[TheMalcolmConnection]

"Life Goes On" type special?

[TheMalcolmConnection]

Especially if there are some promising rookies that need to get signed.

[firstdown]

Mortons stats: yr #atmps avg
punt ret 2001 30 9.3
2002 4 12.8
2003 4 12.8
2004 13 6.2
kick ret 2001 44 23.4
2002 58 26.0 2tds
2003 58 26.0 2tds
2004 16 22.4

Look at his stats for 2002 and 2003 they are the same in all categories

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by firstdown

Mortons stats: yr #atmps avg
punt ret 2001 30 9.3
2002 4 12.8
2003 4 12.8
2004 13 6.2
kick ret 2001 44 23.4
2002 58 26.0 2tds
2003 58 26.0 2tds
2004 16 22.4

Look at his stats for 2002 and 2003 they are the same in all categories

Dude I don't know where you got your numbers but they're wrong.

Punt Returns
YEAR TEAM # YDS Avg
2002 NYJ 4 51 12.8
2003 WAS 19 188 9.9
2004 WAS 13 80 6.2

Kick Returns
YEAR TEAM # YDS Avg
2002 NYJ 58 1509 26.0
2003 WAS 44 1029 23.4
2004 WAS 16 358 22.4

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/player...s?statsId=5195