Rogers Ready to Move On

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Originally Posted by jdlea

Yeah, you're right, Hall did give up what could have been the game winner. However, I believe that play came after a Carlos Rogers dropped pick. An EASY pick that would have ended the game. Instead, him not catching it gave the Cowboys more shots at the end zone...but you're right, scoring the Skins' only touchdown totally didn't do anything for them in that one...Hall SUCKS!

I'm not going to sit here and act like Hall is a great player, but your blind hatred of him is really turning you into a broken record. Let me get this straight: you want to ditch the guy who won the team two games last year by scoring touchdowns/getting picks, says "this is my defense" and at least talks like he likes it in Washington and keep the guy who takes every chance he can to take shots at the team he plays for...that makes sense.

At the end of the day, they both have their deficiencies and neither one are all that good. Carlos can cover and Hall can change games when he's actually close enough to a receiver, or the football, to get a pick. Really, if they somehow melded into one player with Rogers' coverage skills and Hall's ability to catch and score once he has the ball they'd make a great corner. Instead, we have one who gambles too much and another who does a good job of coverage and breaking on the ball, he just can't catch it...unfortunately the latter never keeps his mouth shut and likes to lambaste his employer; I say let him walk.

I would point out that as we've trended away from good play to play pass defense and towards more big play based defense, the overall results have not improved any. It was Blache at first that wanted to build the defense around Hall. Hall wasn't any good in 2009, and in a lot of ways, he was worse in 2010, and we've never managed to sustain as a high turnover defense in part because none of the defensive backs, Hall, Landry, Rogers, or even linebackers (Fletcher/McIntosh) are consistent big play performers.

Rogers, I think, often gets lambasted for something that the Redskins as a group simply don't execute well enough at. DeAngelo Hall isn't a consistent big play performer. LaRon Landry hasn't been, although I hold out hope. Rocky McIntosh has just as many epic fails per opportunity as anyone in the league. People love Fletcher for his consistency, but he is as bad as anyone at screwing up the easy big play. Reed Doughty has the same issue.

I think it's unfortunate that Rogers gets a rap for not making enough easy plays. I don't think it's completely misguided to say that. He has a nice, long fail reel. And even at his peak, quarterbacks still threw fairly often at Rogers.

Problem is, letting Rogers walk isn't going to make this a big-play defense. You have to start tearing down the infrastructure: McIntosh, Hall, Doughty, Kareem Moore, and the like, and then I would hope that Landry develops into more than just a devastating hitter, and that Kevin Barnes can become more of a turnover guy than Hall ever was, and then that we can draft some guys to put around them. Because right now, we have a lot of defensive backs that just can't make a play when the team needs it.