Media Hypocricy

[Paintrain]

Anyone else find it funny that the national media, who have taken pleasure every year in taking potshots at Snyder for free spending, is now turning on the Redskins for being frugal? The same comments always showed up, cap jail, can't keep spending like that, team without a salary cap until this year. Fact is the Redskins are well ($5+ Million I beleive) below the cap and could have matched Pierce's contract, can pay Smoot what he's asking for and can still absorb the hit for dealing Coles but they are making the choice not to throw max dollars around.. It's like damned if you do damned if you don't.. It will just make it sweeter when the Skins are playing in late January one of these years!

[Skinsfanforlife]

Yea I agree with, The hypocrisy of the press is laughable. Even the local radio shows (sportstalk 980) take there shots at the Skins. Smoking AL Cocan is famous for this. he wines that they spend to much on players every year. Now that they are trying to not spend a lot of money on players he is wining about that. Like you said damned if you do damned if you don't..

You know Snyder may have brought this on himself, But you would think Joe Gibbs would get the benefit of the doubt by these press fools. The guy is a hall of fame coach, has 4 super bowl appearances, 3 super bowl victories, 2 successful NASCAR teams. The guy has been successful in everything he as done. The good thing is I know he hears these things and it has got to be motivating him.

[MTK]

I've been thinking the same thing these last few days, but some fans are just as guilty as the media is of this. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

[monk81]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

I've been thinking the same thing these last few days, but some fans are just as guilty as the media is of this. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Can't argue with that Matty.......we fans are a difficult bunch aren't we

I have been impressed with Snyder this year, he's really stepped back into the shadows and let Gibbs and Vince run things.....

[MTK]

Originally Posted by monk81

Can't argue with that Matty.......we fans are a difficult bunch aren't we

I have been impressed with Snyder this year, he's really stepped back into the shadows and let Gibbs and Vince run things.....

I'm sure the media is very disappointed about this, they were just waiting to see if Danny would step on Gibbs' toes and whip out the checkbook and start signing every FA in sight.

Instead we addressed a couple needs at center and WR, and seem to be done for now.

Usually the Skins are known for making waves in free agency, this year it's barely been a ripple.

[sportscurmudgeon]

Snyder is target for criticism because he seems to find ways to do things wrong. Let's see how you can explain all of this - and I'm not going back into history to talk about Mark Carrier and Jeff George and Cousin Brucie here...

In January, the report was that Samuels and his agent proposed a restructuring deal that called for Samuels to get a $13M signing bonus over a five year deal with a sixth year option. The report was that the Redskins rejected that offer categorically. Remember, Danny Boy does the "big time negotiations" as witnessed by the breathless threads here about reports that Danny Boy and Samuel's agent were having dinner and that Danny Boy would surely make things OK. Well Danny Boy showed yet again that he may be a marketing whiz but doesn't know his ass from a goalpost in football. The market for offensive tackles went way beyond Samuel's proposal and the agent would not even begin to talk about the offer he had proposed only a couple of weeks prior. So the Skins had to cough up almost $16M to get Samuels and the deal is six full years - no option to get out after five. Who put the team in that bind? The person who categorically rejected the offer in January. I don't think that was the equipment manager...

Let's talk about the brilliant moves surrounding the Coles' situation. First of all, the cap hit would have been less if Danny Boy had not given Coles a $13M signing bonus when Coles was asking for a $10M signing bonus three years ago. You can't hang that one on Gibbs or Spurrier or Schottenheimer or anyone else; that was Danny Boy. Now fast forward to this year when Coles says he wants out of Washington. The instant the team decided to honor that request, it became absolutely imperative for the team to enlist Coles' help in making his departure as cap friendly as possible. Somehow, everything went the other way. Coles was going to go before the March deadline making the 2005 hit a bit less burdensome but then he felt as if the Skins "reneged" on whatever understanding there was. "Reneged" is a tough word and that is exactly the word used by Coles' agent. "Reneged" translates into "you didn't hold up your end of the deal so now I'm going to be an even bigger pain in your ass". Who did that? Who gave the impression of reneging - even if no real reneging actually happened? And remember, we don't know if Coles is a weasel or Danny boy is a weasel here - or if they both are... But just remember that LaVar Arrington also thinks the team "reneged" on an understanding he had with them and that is now in arbitration. Interesting...

Now negotiations with Santana Moss and his agent will begin and Danny Boy is not in a position of strength here. Moss is dirt cheap this year but he is a free agent at the end of the year. So, if they want to lock him up it will take a nice signing bonus and a multi-year deal to make that happen. They can structure the deal so it is cap friendly for this year but they are going to have to commit to Santana Moss for a long time even without seeing him perform here. Or they run the risk of him being a free agent next year and walking - meaning they get one-year of a replacement for Coles as part of their trade. That's not a lot more than you would have gotten by releasing Coles in February so look for the Skins not to take that chance. Moss will get a fat deal here and it will probably be announced pretty soon.

[mooby]

yeah all the media wants is a story. i think joe gibbs is doing the right thing this year. we'll just have to wait until september to see if his plan works.

[RedskinRat]

Until this franchise wins and wins consistently it'll be a soft target.

When it turns around (And it will, soon) we'll then be subjected to a grovel-fest the likes of which has never been seen before.

[Defensewins]

Originally Posted by Paintrain

Anyone else find it funny that the national media, who have taken pleasure every year in taking potshots at Snyder for free spending, is now turning on the Redskins for being frugal? The same comments always showed up, cap jail, can't keep spending like that, team without a salary cap until this year. Fact is the Redskins are well ($5+ Million I beleive) below the cap and could have matched Pierce's contract, can pay Smoot what he's asking for and can still absorb the hit for dealing Coles but they are making the choice not to throw max dollars around.. It's like damned if you do damned if you don't.. It will just make it sweeter when the Skins are playing in late January one of these years!

I agree with you, Snyder is the new George Steinbrenner/ Jerry Jones of the recent NFL, they love to hate him.
However, correct me if I am wrong Crazycanuck, but the Redskins do not have enough cap room to have signed both Pierce and Smoot and traded Coles. I thought Coles will be an immeadiate $5M (or something crazy like that) if we trade him or cut him.

[MTK]

Coles is more than that if he was cut, he'd hit the cap for over $9M

[offiss]

Personally I like the direction we are heading to, and that is build through the draft, free agency is good to add a player here or there but if you try and build a team through free agency most of the time you will fail miserably, it just cost's to much to build a team that way. I have a strong feeling that we will be dealing and aquiring pick's in this upcoming draft, I could also see us sold on a reciever that is under the radar of the top 4 that isn't being considered by most of us right now should be interesting as alway's.

[mooby]

yeah but they already paid him that 5 million signing bonus on last tuesday. im confused. what will happen if they trade him now?

[MTK]

Originally Posted by mooby

yeah but they already paid him that 5 million signing bonus on last tuesday. im confused. what will happen if they trade him now?

big cap hit, but that room was cleared by Samuels' restructuring his deal.

[jdlea]

I'm glad they're not going crazy this offseason.

[backrow]

Originally Posted by jdlea

I'm glad they're not going crazy this offseason.

The Redskins FO may not be going crazy this offseason, but we are!

The one move I had hoped that they wouldn't make this year, is the offer to Ray Brown! Last year, I wished they would have dropped Ade Jimoh! I'm going to be 0fer2!

Everything else seems to be a supreme effort to balance the books toward next year. Biting the bullet seems to be the FO and Locker Room motto this year!