Redskins trade for Jason Taylor (updated)

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Originally Posted by Slingin Sammy 33

If we stay with an aggressive Cover 1 as our base D with the SS close to the LOS, this scheme should be fine against the run and will cover Taylor. We have needs to replace Griffen and with Rocky's knees, but the injury to Daniels did nothing to increase or decrease those needs.

We did? When?

Campbell - dislocated kneecap
Carlos Rogers - torn ACL & MCL
Thomas - torn tricep
Jansen - broken ankle
Washington - dislocated elbow
Daniels - foot
Moss - groin, heel
Thrash - ankle

The training staff couldn't do anything to prevent the above injuries. Moss has had injury issues with his hammy in the past. There were some guys with hammy issues, but none missed any significant time or more than one game. I'm sure we had no more of a problem with this than any other team. Since the training staff is not restricted by $$$ or cap, you can be sure the Skins have one of the best staffs in the NFL. Not a fair attack on the training staff IMO.

Good points about the defense. I'm sure Greg Blache will find a scheme to stop the run, much in the way GW had to find a scheme to generate a pass rushin years past. That Cover 1 should do the trick.

Very good point about the training staff. Snyder made the hamstring issues a point of emphasis and hired someone to take care of that. You did a great job of showing the various bad breaks we had last year, but ligaments and tendons can't be "trained" to prevent injury, beyond the stretching regimens they already do. As a victim of two achilles tears (basketball) I can tell you that there is no rhyme nor reason to these things, much like you can't prevent ACL tears. You can limit players exposure to injury, but at the end of the day these guys are doing things the human body just wasn't really designed to do, so these types of injuries will occur.