Walt Harris to the Pro Bowl

[Sheriff Gonna Getcha]

Originally Posted by Grim21Reaper

Chalk up another one to the worst front office in football. Another scapegoat goes on to glory while we win a handfull of games.

Nice one Vinny or Danny or Joe or whoever the hell makes all of the idiotic moves on a regular basis....

I don't think anyone saw Harris' 2006 campaign. I was watching him and thought he was a dime back at best. I can't blame the front office for that one.

[Rexi]

Originally Posted by Sheriff Gonna Getcha

I don't think anyone saw Harris' 2006 campaign. I was watching him and thought he was a dime back at best. I can't blame the front office for that one.

Were you paying attention when you were watching him?

[Sheriff Gonna Getcha]

Originally Posted by Rexi

Were you paying attention when you were watching him?

Yup and he looked awful. He missed a ton of tackles, got burnt on double moves and on go routes by anyone faster than an offensive lineman. He looked absolutely silly in a game against the Eagles at FedEx (anyone remember that?). You, however, probably were not watching him last year, that is unless you are a closet Redskins fan.

[Rexi]

Originally Posted by Sheriff Gonna Getcha

Yup and he looked awful. He missed a ton of tackles, got burnt on double moves and on go routes by anyone faster than an offensive lineman. He looked absolutely silly in a game against the Eagles at FedEx (anyone remember that?). You, however, probably were not watching him last year, that is unless you are a closet Redskins fan.

You're right I didn't watch him last year. Maybe he was terrible I don't know, but you typed 2006 campaign (that would be THIS year) and this year he was fantastic.

[Sheriff Gonna Getcha]

Originally Posted by Rexi

You're right I didn't watch him last year. Maybe he was terrible I don't know, but you typed 2006 campaign (that would be THIS year) and this year he was fantastic.

Ooops, my bad man. I meant the 2005 campaign. He looked awful in 2005 and, I suppose, did a heck of a job this year. Hey, you guys I guess were smart enough to see talent where we didn't. Gotta give your office credit for being smart and/or lucky.

[Pocket$ $traight]

Originally Posted by Sheriff Gonna Getcha

I don't think anyone saw Harris' 2006 campaign. I was watching him and thought he was a dime back at best. I can't blame the front office for that one.

Except his '05 campaign was better than Wright's '06. They need to stop with the churn and burn mentality. Change for the sake of change does not work. I would like to know who decided that it would improve the team to drop Harris for an unknown entity.

Hell forget the question of switching Wright for Harris, what makes Rogers better than Harris? At least Harris can catch a ball that hits him in the hands.

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by Grim21Reaper

Except his '05 campaign was better than Wright's '06. They need to stop with the churn and burn mentality. Change for the sake of change does not work. I would like to know who decided that it would improve the team to drop Harris for an unknown entity.

Hell forget the question of switching Wright for Harris, what makes Rogers better than Harris? At least Harris can catch a ball that hits him in the hands.

We needed the cap room. Bad.

Harris could have started here after Springs went down...Oh well. He wasn't better than Wright in 05, and he is awful against double moves, but with all the pass rush we got this year that wouldn't have hurt us, right?

[Pocket$ $traight]

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

We needed the cap room. Bad.

Harris could have started here after Springs went down...Oh well. He wasn't better than Wright in 05, and he is awful against double moves, but with all the pass rush we got this year that wouldn't have hurt us, right?

Did we really need it at the time? I thought we had about 3 million in space the whole year.

Anyway, it is too late to do anything about it now. Harris may make the Pro-bowl because he made plays this year but no one is afraid to throw at him and San Fran's D isn't exactly intimidating.

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by Grim21Reaper

Except his '05 campaign was better than Wright's '06. They need to stop with the churn and burn mentality. Change for the sake of change does not work. I would like to know who decided that it would improve the team to drop Harris for an unknown entity.

Hell forget the question of switching Wright for Harris, what makes Rogers better than Harris? At least Harris can catch a ball that hits him in the hands.

But it's not like Wright was a nobody. Plus, if I remember right, Harris (who, as mentioned, had a less than impressive 2005 season) left before we signed Wright and for the double the money we signed Wright to. So it's possible maybe, just maybe, that Wright just wanted to go. And it wasn't worth it to fight to keep him.

I don't know. I mean like I've said the move made perfect sense at the time but sometimes things just backfire. It's not a bad decision, just unfortunate results

[marius]

Originally Posted by Sheriff Gonna Getcha

I don't think anyone saw Harris' 2006 campaign. I was watching him and thought he was a dime back at best. I can't blame the front office for that one.

The problem is that the Redskins FO does get the benefit of the doubt because they almost always make the wrong decision. The track record of the FO in the Snyder years is pretty dreadful. It has been like a perfect storm of bad decisions - get rid of solid players who know the system (they then go on to be pro bowlers elsewhere) and bring in overpriced players who underperform.