Cutting Archuleta & The Salary Cap

[Sheriff Gonna Getcha]

Great post from Jason LaCanfora on the WP's blog. Looks like Arch is going to be with us for quite some time.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/redsk...st_3.html#more

[AlvinWalton'sNeckBrace]

well...maybe if the rest of the D didn't suck so bad, and the offense could put up points, he wouldn't be such a glaring weakness...its unfortunate that we have to pay him, but maybe we can start to figure out ways to use him to his strengths...ie, cleaning jerseys, mopping, lifting heavy rocks and such

[That Guy]

no surprise there, i mean, you give a guy 10$mill in guarantees, and he's going to end up with at least 10$mill before he leaves.

[Redskin]

Dont worry me and a group of friends are taking care of him, we are working out the details right now of kidnapping him and sending him to ubekistan, founding and donations would be apreciated thx

[Sheriff Gonna Getcha]

Originally Posted by Redskin

Dont worry me and a group of friends are taking care of him, we are working out the details right now of kidnapping him and sending him to ubekistan, founding and donations would be apreciated thx

The uzbeks are liars and cheats, they not keep him unless you send them 20 gallons fermented horse urine and 40 pounds of pubis.

[hooskins]

Originally Posted by Sheriff Gonna Getcha

The uzbeks are liars and cheats, they not keep him unless you send them 20 gallons fermented horse urine and 40 pounds of pubis.

loll

[mooby]

Can't he like give some of the money back or agree to take a pay cut?

[Daseal]

Can't he like give some of the money back or agree to take a pay cut?

Would you?

[Jason72]

I'm still hoping that our "genius" coaching staff figures out a way to utilize the skills of this player which Lovie Smith wanted really bad for the Bears. He has something to offer, we just have to get it out of him.

[GoSkins!]

Originally Posted by Jason72

I'm still hoping that our "genius" coaching staff figures out a way to utilize the skills of this player which Lovie Smith wanted really bad for the Bears. He has something to offer, we just have to get it out of him.

Yeah. I talked with a Rams fan the other day who doesn't follow the skins. He was saying that we took one of thier best defensive players and thought he would be doing great for us.

We are not using him right.

[hail_2_da_skins]

Originally Posted by GoSkins!

Yeah. I talked with a Rams fan the other day who doesn't follow the skins. He was saying that we took one of thier best defensive players and thought he would be doing great for us.

We are not using him right.

That's bullcrap! I live in St. Louis. I can tell you for a fact, St. Louisans were laughing when the Skins paid Arch the bank. The concensus was that he couldn't cover and since his neck injury, he wasn't tackling aggressively anymore. I've repeatedly posted how this was a bad move. I only wish I had Gibbs and Snyder's phone number because when I first heard the rumor the Skins were going to sign Archuletta, I was screaming NNOOOOOOOOOOO! I wish I was wrong, but Arch is even more washed up than I thought.

[ArtMonkDrillz]

Originally Posted by hail_2_da_skins

That's bullcrap! I live in St. Louis. I can tell you for a fact, St. Louisans were laughing when the Skins paid Arch the bank. The concensus was that he couldn't cover and since his neck injury, he wasn't tackling aggressively anymore. I've repeatedly posted how this was a bad move. I only wish I had Gibbs and Snyder's phone number because when I first heard the rumor the Skins were going to sign Archuletta, I was screaming NNOOOOOOOOOOO! I wish I was wrong, but Arch is even more washed up than I thought.

It's like Bill Simmons says: every team needs a VP of Common Sense. If the Skin's FO had just talked to a group of St Louis fans they probably wouldn't have paid Adam Abercrombie so damn much.

[That Guy]

because of lavar giving money back, the new cba contains rules to prevent that from happening in the future (oh yeah, and they suspended lavar's agent for an entire year for doing that too). so that's a no-go.

If he gets kidnapped or killed, i believe we're still on the books for the guaranteed money, so the uzbeks really can't help us there .

[mooby]

Originally Posted by That Guy

because of lavar giving money back, the new cba contains rules to prevent that from happening in the future (oh yeah, and they suspended lavar's agent for an entire year for doing that too). so that's a no-go.

If he gets kidnapped or killed, i believe we're still on the books for the guaranteed money, so the uzbeks really can't help us there .

Damn. He can always restructure can't he? He might be a team oriented guy.

[That Guy]

Originally Posted by mooby

Damn. He can always restructure can't he? He might be a team oriented guy.

restructure usually means converting current or future base salary into signing bonus, which would only make things worse (cap wise). his base salary for his first three years is basically vet minimum anyways, so there's nothing to move.

and we can't shop him. his contract is horrible except as a 2 year vet min deal with a guarantee to dump him afterwards (instead of paying 4+mill a year) and having him have no real reason to play at all, money-wise. besides, he can't find a spot on the #30 defense and has been embarrassed weekly, so he has ZERO trade value.