New Reason behind LaVar Arrington not playing early season!!

[wolfeskins]

[QUOTE=offiss]No I don't know that, the fact is your not basing your conclusion on Lavar being the best LB on our team by production, it's being based on his name, your to caught up in the Lavar hype, and not the Lavar substance, Lavar is not a better LB than Washington, he may be a better athlete, but that's where it ends, and I would personally rather see Clemons in there more.[QUOTE]



i am not basing my conclusion on lavars name, i'm basing it on his production. go ahead compare lavar's numbers to all the other current redskins lbs minus last year. when was lavar drafted, 2000 ? compare his stats from 2000,01,02,03 and 05 to the stats of any lb that has played for the skins during that time period. lets see who has been the skins most productive lb the last 5 years.

[#56fanatic]

Originally Posted by offiss

No I don't know that, the fact is your not basing your conclusion on Lavar being the best LB on our team by production, it's being based on his name, your to caught up in the Lavar hype, and not the Lavar substance, Lavar is not a better LB than Washington, he may be a better athlete, but that's where it ends, and I would personally rather see Clemons in there more.

As for the play involving Gates, I recorded it so I was able to watch the replay a few times, Arrington stood in the D-backfield on the strong side and followed Brees's movement as if he had a chance to make a play on the QB from the secondary, while Gates ran right out into the flat into Arringtons area while Arrington ignored the fact that someone could slip out into the flat, he then only reacted after the ball was thrown and it was to late to catch up, he was the only one out there, and realisticly the only one who should have been responsible for anyone releasing into the flat, and that is why Williams is reluctant to play him, he really is in his own world out there, it just takes one play like that to cost us a game [especially the way our offense keeps teams in the game] and Williams is not willing to risk that.

Kind of funny that Lavar had been coming out on definate passing downs, it seems Clemons gets the call when we need a real pass rusher and he's been far better at it than Lavar.

you talk as though you are in the huddle, or sideline and know what he was suppose to do. Nobody but GW,Joe and players on the defense knew what he was suppose to do. Maybe he was to cover him, maybe he was blitzing the QB. Until somebody comes out,which is n't going to happen now, and says LaVar was to cover gates, or this person was to cover gates, stop assuming that Gates was his guy. When somebody is blitzing that is their job to get into the back field, which he did. If he was suppose to cover gates, I doubt that his initial movement would have been towards the QB.

[Hog1]

So many conspiracies, so little time!

[mheisig]

I STILL say there was a second shooter on the grassy knoll.

[mredskins]

That is far fetch. If you over paid for a sports car would you just leave it parked because you were pissed you paid to much. NO! You would drive it. So why would Dan overpay Lavar then just bench him.

[Skinsfanforlife]

Originally Posted by mredskins

That is far fetch. If you over paid for a sports car would you just leave it parked because you were pissed you paid to much. NO! You would drive it. So why would Dan overpay Lavar then just bench him.

good point

[mheisig]

Originally Posted by mredskins

That is far fetch. If you over paid for a sports car would you just leave it parked because you were pissed you paid to much. NO! You would drive it. So why would Dan overpay Lavar then just bench him.

Because...Dan Snyder doesn't like riding Lavar Arrington?

[Schneed10]

This is downright retarded. First off, Snyder settled the dispute with Arrington.

Secondly, there's no way Gibbs would allow this. No way in hell. He'd be out the door in a heartbeat if Dan Snyder started asking him to treat players like that.

[Skinsfanforlife]

Originally Posted by SkinsLove24/7

This was very interesting news that I thought should be shared with my fellow Skins fans. We all remember back in the early weeks of the season when LaVar Arrington was riding the bench and all the rumors of why he was not playing were flying around. Well I got some interesting news recently. I was attending my family reunion last weekend and talking Redskins with one of my distant realtives. He is employed by Washington based radio station WTOP. He was telling me that some of the sports guys around the station were talking about the real reason LaVar wasn't playing. If you think back to the offseason the was a big dispute between LaVar and Dan Snyder over like 8 million that LaVar was supposedly owed. This dispute went to arbritation and LaVar ended up being awarded the money. Well suppoedly Dan Snyder was not to pleased with this decision and told Joe Gibbs that he had to bench LaVar for a few weeks. This story seems to fit and would make sense if Snyder was really pissed about the decision. Also the source which this comes from is a reliable one in WTOP. This is one scenario that may never be proven since Snyder would do his best to cover this up. I think this is an interesting topic to discuss so.....Discuss.

Like I said there is only one guy who made the call to not play L.A. and that is Gregg Williams........ right or wrong he is the reason......

[giacomo2]

that was my reason all along for LA not playing.

[PhxRedSkin]

Originally Posted by Skinsfanforlife

Like I said there is only one guy who made the call to not play L.A. and that is Gregg Williams........ right or wrong he is the reason......

Exactly, ever noticed which way Gibbs is facing when the D is on the field? He brought GW in and gave him full control on that side of the ball. No way Lavar was benched because of the arbitration, simply like the coaches said. They did not like what they saw of him in practice.

[BigSKINBauer]

Originally Posted by PhxRedSkin

Exactly, ever noticed which way Gibbs is facing when the D is on the field? He brought GW in and gave him full control on that side of the ball. No way Lavar was benched because of the arbitration, simply like the coaches said. They did not like what they saw of him in practice.

:cheeky-sm :headbange :headbange :cheeky-sm :headbange :cheeky-sm

[tjmorgan]

Nonsense, Joe is too old to play these stupid owner games. He will do what it takes to win, short of playing criminals and immoral idiots. No way does he sacrafice wins over $$$$ for the owner.

[BigSKINBauer]

if the media knew it why didn't they say it all over every media outlet. There was a rumor that we here and people everywhere talked about but i don't believe it for a second. Lavar was hurt and when he got better he was not ready to start

[FRPLG]

Originally Posted by SkinsLove24/7

This was very interesting news that I thought should be shared with my fellow Skins fans. We all remember back in the early weeks of the season when LaVar Arrington was riding the bench and all the rumors of why he was not playing were flying around. Well I got some interesting news recently. I was attending my family reunion last weekend and talking Redskins with one of my distant realtives. He is employed by Washington based radio station WTOP. He was telling me that some of the sports guys around the station were talking about the real reason LaVar wasn't playing. If you think back to the offseason the was a big dispute between LaVar and Dan Snyder over like 8 million that LaVar was supposedly owed. This dispute went to arbritation and LaVar ended up being awarded the money. Well suppoedly Dan Snyder was not to pleased with this decision and told Joe Gibbs that he had to bench LaVar for a few weeks. This story seems to fit and would make sense if Snyder was really pissed about the decision. Also the source which this comes from is a reliable one in WTOP. This is one scenario that may never be proven since Snyder would do his best to cover this up. I think this is an interesting topic to discuss so.....Discuss.

I deem this the Retarded Post of the Week. The RPW is awarded in this case for several reasons.
Reason 1: Umm this discussion has been had...and had....and had.....and had again. It is now downrght ridculous to even bring it up at this point since he is playing and we are in the playoff hunt with a big game coming.
Reason 2: The logic behind the theory is idiotic. Why would they sit a guy they were paying a lot? To get nothing out of him? Sounds like a briilliant plan to me!
Reason 3: This is the capper. It was widely reported that the dispute was settled amicably between Lavar and the Skins. On top of that Lavar admitted weeks later that he had overreacted in the situation which would lead you to believe that he thinks the reason he was sitting had nothing to do with money. I don't think he'd have admitted overreacting if he wasn't playing based on the issue you raised.