Lemar Marshall released for Randall Godfrey??

[JWsleep]

From JLac:

Posted at 11:23 AM ET, 08/21/2007
Lemar Marshall Released

This just in on the phone from Jason:

The Redskins have released linebacker Lemar Marshall, whose production last season was affected by injuries and, consequently, had fallen somewhat out of favor with the team.
Still, he was a solid special teams guy and knew how to play every linebacker position in this defense. Privately, he had worried about his role and was uncertain about his future here, but said this morning he had not asked for a trade.
"I'm totally surprised," he said.
We'll add more as we get it.

Surprised, but GW and co very much blamed the LBs for last season--fired the coach, new MLB, start Rocky, cut Lamar, draft some new blood. We'll see!

[sandman89]

Originally Posted by JWsleep

From JLac:

Posted at 11:23 AM ET, 08/21/2007
Lemar Marshall Released

This just in on the phone from Jason:

The Redskins have released linebacker Lemar Marshall, whose production last season was affected by injuries and, consequently, had fallen somewhat out of favor with the team.
Still, he was a solid special teams guy and knew how to play every linebacker position in this defense. Privately, he had worried about his role and was uncertain about his future here, but said this morning he had not asked for a trade.
"I'm totally surprised," he said.
We'll add more as we get it.

Surprised, but GW and co very much blamed the LBs for last season--fired the coach, new MLB, start Rocky, cut Lamar, draft some new blood. We'll see!

McIntosh Showed already hes better than Marshall.Hes Speed/Awareness and Agility is better also and being a good play making Coverer and a pressure is what we needed and in 2006 draft hes was the 2nd best choice at LB.

Just Like goldston the skins know how to draft besides Taylor Jacobs ehhhhh.

[freddyg12]

Kelli Johnson on comcast made a good point that's been made before, the core skin talk doesn't seem to mean much at times. LM did a lot for the team, filled in where asked to & played hurt.

The more I think about this it sounds like it was GW's move. I hope Gibbs isn't letting his assistants decide who gets cut, but it really looks like it here. Godfrey played for GW in Tenn. I would hope that Gibbs valued LM a lot & gave this a lot of thought.

[GMScud]

I don't have time to read all 150 posts in this thread, but I wonder if the $1M we were to pay Marshall had anything to do with it.

It is curious that we would hang on to other lesser players like Khary Campbell and Sartz and let Lemar go. He wasn't much of a MLB, but OLB pretty well. Godfrey is a solid player. I'm hoping that bringing him in isn't an indication the Marcus' injury is worse than reported.

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by GMScud

I don't have time to read all 150 posts in this thread, but I wonder if the $1M we were to pay Marshall had anything to do with it.

It is curious that we would hang on to other lesser players like Khary Campbell and Sartz and let Lemar go. He wasn't much of a MLB, but OLB pretty well. Godfrey is a solid player. I'm hoping that bringing him in isn't an indication the Marcus' injury is worse than reported.

I'm sure money definitely played a role. As for Campbell and Sartz, not only are they cheaper depth alternatives they are younger. Marshall is no spring chicken.

More than money and age though, the Redskins must have seen or not seen something lately with Marshall that made them think they need someone right now.

(on a side note, I kind of like this WR they signed Jerel Myers. He could be a good #5 receiver)

[70Chip]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

I'm sure money definitely played a role. As for Campbell and Sartz, not only are they cheaper depth alternatives they are younger. Marshall is no spring chicken.

More than money and age though, the Redskins must have seen or not seen something lately with Marshall that made them think they need someone right now.

(on a side note, I kind of like this WR they signed Jerel Myers. He could be a good #5 receiver)

What do you know about Myers, oh Connected One? Sincerely curious.

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by 70Chip

What do you know about Myers, oh Connected One? Sincerely curious.

Played at LSU, most recently tearing up the AFL (not hard to do I suppose). About 5'11" 190ish. Big play type of receiver, good deep threat. His biggest strength is probably his speed after the catch. Dante Hall-esque with better size

[70Chip]

Let's see what Williams says about it. This was his call. He may give us some clue. My position at this point is the simplest explanation is the best: he got outplayed. This would make more sense if they had not brought in Godfrey which makes it seem like they are not completely satisfied with the play of the others.


As for the timing, I think they wanted to avoid putting him to the curb with the rest of the first cut garbage. It's a small concession to his service for the team that will be better for him. No, it's not the necessarly the savviest or most cutthroat thing they could have done. But it's not likely they would have gotten that much, if anything, for him. If you are willing to trade a guy at this point, chances are you are going to cut him at some point anyway and other teams know this.

[jgalecpa]

Lets be honest, we won't really be able to tell whether this was good or bad until the end of the year when we compare:

(1) How he did on whatever team he will have signed on with, and

(2) How we did without him, especially at his position.

Remember how we fumed at Lavar Leaving???