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Old 03-15-2018, 01:09 PM   #11
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Re: Redskins free agent signings 2018

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Hello All,

I've been reading the forums for a while, and decided to join today, so I could chat/share with the other members.

I'm sure it's not lost on anyone that the Redskins stand to lose in a single offseason: Cousins, Grant, Murphy, Galette, Breeland, Fuller, Hall, and Brown. We will also finally feel the total affect of Scott M being gone as well. Didn't we learn a lesson last season letting half the offense walk?

I thought the method of building a winner was continuity and drafting, cultivating, and KEEPING your own talent? Instead, we let Murphy, Breeland, and Fuller (young talent we drafted) go to perform in their prime for some other team. It's beyond me why we haven't made more of an effort to nail down Brown and/or Galette. We're also hearing that Cravens is being shopped.

I know we cannot see what's happening behind the scenes, but from where I'm standing other teams are aggressively working to get better this offseason while the Redskins sit on the sidelines watching talent walk away. You'd figure a team that had a 7-9 season last year, and their division rivals winning a SUPERBOWL would be moving a little harder.

Instead of getting younger, we're getting older. Smith is 5 years older than Cousins, and (if we sign DRC) he's pushing 32 years old....no thanks.
Welcome. You need to ground yourself in the realities of the salary cap.

The Redskins currently have $21M in cap space. Murphy signed for $7M per year, Breeland signed for $8M, Grant for $7M, Niles Paul for $2.5M, and Spencer Long I'm not clear on what he's getting from the Jets. But point being, with our cap space, you could have kept Murphy and Breeland, and then had just enough to sign your draft picks. But that's it. Like completely it.

Reality is every one of those guys got more money than they deserved. We can replace them very well by patiently waiting and spending a fraction of what it would have cost to keep them.

The team was wise not to pay those prices. The Ravens will find themselves cutting Ryan Grant in two years. You can take that to the bank.
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