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Malcom:

Samuels restructured twice and set himself up in a siutation where he was due for a huge payday AND it would not have been a huge cap benefit for the Skins to just release him. Then, he took the rather obvious situation that there was no replacement for him on the squad and looked at the "market value: for OTs and basically told the Skins to pay up or he'd just take the money that was owed to him for one year and then become a free agent.

This was not a reward for being a team player. This was paying what they had to pay in order to prevent going into 2005 with a gaping hole on the left side of the OL. Remember, that's where Dockery is too so let's not delude ourselves that there is an abundance of talent in the LG position.

Samuels proves that the noble goals and intentions of the Redskins not to pay players at a position more than they do "better players" at the same position are "fluid". Jansen is the better tackle on the line and has been for several years now. Samuels is making a ton more than Jansen made when Jansen signed and will be for a while to come. Now cpmpare that situation to the explanations about why Pierce and Smoot were let go...