Official Washington Redskins Forum Thread

[x0xHumblex0x]

Jenkins is promising and can fill Carriker's shoes as long as Jenkins can stay healthy too. remember we lost him preseason last year for the whole year.
Orakpo......gonna be tough to find a solid replacement. Wilson or Jackson....mmmmm; not so sure there. but you never know


MFer

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Jenkins is promising and can fill Carriker's shoes as long as Jenkins can stay healthy too. remember we lost him preseason last year for the whole year.
Orakpo......gonna be tough to find a solid replacement. Wilson or Jackson....mmmmm; not so sure there. but you never know


MFer

I think Jenkins will do just fine, the problem is now in the rotation and having Bowen play in situations that aren't to his strengths. Still, he's getting paid some coin and we should expect him to step up.

OLB is much more difficult. Now teams can roll to stop Kerrigan, and the Redskins don't have an answer for it.

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Also, as I suspected would happen, the Redskins signed Markus White off the practice squad of the Bucs to help at OLB. Will be interesting to see how playing time falls for the three guys competing (four if Alexander is given a shot.)

[x0xHumblex0x]

then i would say go with Jackson.....he fits into the transition much easier.

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MFer

[f16harm]

Hopefully this means no more Geico commercials. People didn't know who he was before, he'll surely be irrelevant after missing part of last season and all of this season.

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Injury updates: Fred Davis and Josh Wilson cleared after suffering concussions. Garcon still questionable for the Bengals.

Josh Morgan received death threats following the game. That's going too far, but it's still an inexcusable play.

It also seems that both Jim Haslett and Danny Smith had their contracts extended. I wonder if that's the dreaded vote of confidence for them. Both are puzzling, especially considering performance from last week. I would have let them go through more of the season before making that call.

Defensive coordinator Jim Haslett is among Washington Redskins assistant coaches who received contract extensions during the offseason, coach Mike Shanahan said Wednesday.

Shanahan declined to reveal details of the assistants’ contracts, but people familiar with the situation said the coaches, including special teams coordinator Danny Smith, are signed through at least the 2013 season.

Haslett, who was believed to be in the last year of his deal, came under scrutiny after the Redskins struggled during a Week 2 loss to the St. Louis Rams. Some media have speculated that first-year Redskins secondary coach Raheem Morris, formerly head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, would replace Haslett as the Redskins’ defensive coordinator at the end of the season.

Smith, who has directed Washington’s special teams under three coaching regimes, has been criticized by fans after the Redskins had punts blocked in their first two games. Last season, the team had five field-goal attempts blocked.

Haslett, Smith and the other assistants are performing well, Shanahan said.

“If I didn’t feel very good about Jim and I didn’t feel very good about Danny, I wouldn’t have extended them,” Shanahan said after practice at Redskins Park. “I feel very good about those coaches. They’re excellent football coaches.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...t-danny-smith/

[Maynard]

brink posted this in the cb

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/8402278/washington-redskins-robert-griffin-iii-says-took-cheap-shots-st-louis-rams

“I don't want to tip-toe the lines of anything that's happened with bounties or anything like that, but they were definitely going after me. They made it a point, obviously, all week to hit me. Some of the shots were cheap of that nature.
”-- Robert Griffin III, on the hits he took vs. Rams

[Warner2BruceTD]

I don't recall any specific cheap shots on Griffin, but there is no question that the Rams are dirty and/or "chippy". This is par for the course for a Jeff Fisher team.

There is a fine line between aggressive, hard hitting football and chippy, dirty football. Fisher's teams always walk that line. Guys like Cortland Finnegan and Jo Lon Dunbar are trash talking cheap shot artists. Finnegan successfully trolled Josh Morgan into that penalty at the end. You can't let dirty players get in your head, and clearly the Rams got into the Skins heads last week.

[Maynard]

i thought the story was funny. RG3 comes across like a whiner. I didnt see any of that game other than the highlights. But to call a team dirty for going after him is pretty bitch like imo. what does he expect?

[Slateman]

Welcome to the NFL Robert.

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i thought the story was funny. RG3 comes across like a whiner. I didnt see any of that game other than the highlights. But to call a team dirty for going after him is pretty bitch like imo. what does he expect?

RGIII should have just kept that to himself. As a QB in just his second NFL game, of course it is going to come across as whining. As W2B said, the Rams under Fisher are a chippy bunch, and even without that, the Rams and Redskins always play tough against each other.

[x0xHumblex0x]

problem is the media and NFL players want a piece of RGIII......
plus; the Rams know they traded their 2nd round pick for all those Redskins picks.
so; naturally the Rams were going in with something to "prove".
this is how it is for any high profile player.........never mind being a Rookie, a Heisman Trophy Winner, a High Profile player who already proved he can compete.
throw in the Week 1 record that he set..........and now you have a bunch of MFers that envy him as well.

who cares what the media makes him out to be......its mostly out of context anyway.


MFer

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Former Washington Redskins tight end Chris Cooley said Thursday he thinks the team will re-sign him this season only if there is a significant development to alter its current roster, such as an injury to current starting tight end Fred Davis.

Cooley said he isn’t interested in any of the offers that he has received from other NFL teams to serve as a backup on a minimum-salary contract.

He is coming to grips, he said, with the possibility that he could end up retiring if he doesn’t receive an offer to his liking this season or next offseason. And he has begun to give thought to his post-playing career options, he said, including a possible future role in the Redskins organization, perhaps as a team-affiliated broadcaster.

“I don’t know what’s going to happen,” Cooley said in a telephone interview. “I want to play here, but I don’t know if anything will happen with that.”

The Redskins released Cooley, their career leader in catches by a tight end, last month after eight seasons with the team. Redskins officials said they were leaving open the possibility of re-signing Cooley. Coach Mike Shanahan said last Friday that General Manager Bruce Allen had met with Cooley the previous day.

Cooley said Thursday his impression is that only an injury to Davis, backup tight end Niles Paul or another significant roster-changing development would open a job for him.

“Bruce and I are friends,” Cooley said. “We sat down and had a beer and we talked about golf, mostly. The way it looks to me is if something happens here, they would love to have me. If Fred gets hurt or something like that, I think I’d be the guy they sign. I think that.”

Asked what else, if anything, might lead the Redskins to want to re-sign him, Cooley said: “I’m not exactly sure what that situation would be. I don’t know if it would be Fred getting hurt or Niles Paul getting hurt or whatever. If they call me at some point this season, that’s great. If they don’t, that’s fine too. I’m not going to worry about it too much. I’m happy with what I’ve done here. If satisfied with my career. If I don’t play again, that’s how it is. I’ll go through the season and see what the offers are. I’ll go through free agency and see if there’s interest. If I’m not playing at that point, I’ll see about whether to retire or not.”

Cooley said he could envision himself, after he retires as a player, filling a position like the ones occupied by long-time Redskins radio broadcasters Sam Huff and Sonny Jurgensen. Huff’s schedule has been reduced this season to calling all of the team’s home games, plus two road games.

“I would love to do something like Sam and Sonny,” Cooley said. “I’m not interested in doing media. But if it’s something through the team like that, I would love to do that. That’s not a real conversation yet. I’m not retired and I can’t have that conversation before I’m retired. But it’s definitely an idea that’s been tossed out there.”

Shanahan has said that Cooley, 30, wants to find a starting job with another team. Cooley said no starting job elsewhere has presented itself.

“I’ve had offers,” he said. “I said to my agent, ‘You know what I want. And you don’t need to call me if it’s not something I want.’ I don’t have that much interest in the interest there is in me so far. If I could go somewhere and start, I’d probably do that. That’d be fun.”

The New England Patriots expressed interest, Cooley said, before signing Kellen Winslow this week.

“The Patriots called, then they signed Kellen Winslow,” Cooley said. “I played long enough and made enough money that I’m not going to play for the minimum salary. If that’s the best offer I’m going to get, then so be it…Most teams have a tight end they like.

“You look at it and you say, ‘I could play here,’ or, ‘I could play there,’ and it’s not necessarily the case,” Cooley said. “Then you have guys available on the market like Winslow, like [Jeremy] Shockey. It’s not a good market for tight ends.”

Cooley said he doesn’t feel an overwhelming need to play if an offer he considers suitable doesn’t come his way.

“Unless someone really needs me, I would just sit here,” he said. “I live here. Leesburg is home. I want to be here. I’m not just sitting around doing nothing. I’m doing a charity thing with my gallery where we’re making 100 dog bowls. That was pretty fun. I’m doing stuff I like to do. I’d like to keep doing charity stuff around here.”

Shanahan said last Friday: “Chris is such a big part of this organization. He’s been a big part of his organization. He’s looked at his options. We talked about things that could possibly happen throughout the year. But if he did go to another team, it’d have to be as a starter.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...o-re-sign-him/

[SuperKevin]

Anyone else going to the game on Sunday?

[Rudi]

Good luck Skins fans. I think we can both agree this is a big test for both our young teams early on. Our secondary better show up or RG3 gunna have a field day. Hopin the Law Firm can have a big game though.