Contract Renegotiations have begun

[Bill B]

Originally Posted by #56fanatic

do you watch the games?? the guy has had two injuries in his career with the redskins. those two injuries happen to be a torn achilies and a broken leg. So, with your logic, if randy thomas gets hurt one more time, then I guess he should go too?? For the life of me I can not understand where Jansen is all of the sudden labled as a "history" of injuries. the guy is a rock on the right side of the line. He has played with some injuries most guys wouldn't even dress for. Broken thumbs, twisted knees, torn calf, come on, you have to pay closer attention to stuff like this.

Plus cutting Jansen does not make sense from a CAP perspective. I believe Schneed pointed it in other posts correctly in that dealing with the cap will probably mean cutting one guy here or redoing a contract for another guy there every year - a complete gutting of the team is impossible from a cap perspective and would hurt the product on the field.

Now I think most everyone would agree that if anyone is getting cut this season with a expensive contract it is Brandon Llyod and not Jon Jansen.

Here is a breakdown of Llyod vs. Jansen

Llyod - 2 years on team, 25 catches for a whopping total of 379 yards, 0 (yes a big donut there) touchdowns. In his 5 year career he has 130 catches averaging 26 catches a year and 13 touchdowns averaging 2.6 a year. In addition his off field behavior is nothing to write home about.

Jansen - has been with Skins his entire career and started 112 games for the team over 8 years (averaging 14 games a year). He is a locker room leader and well liked by his teammates. He had 2 of his 8 seasons cut short by injury which as an offensive lineman that constantly gets tangled up is not bad in my opinion.

Now I know that it is impossible to compare an offensive lineman to a reciever, but if I am Vinny Cerrato and had to choose between the two I think it is not even close especially with our current depth on the O-Line as thin as it is.