2009 Free Agents

[rypper11]

Originally Posted by Paintrain

What's Jordan Gross' incentive for coming to DC? He's a LT who we'd want to move to RT, is going to garner LT money and the position somewhere else. We're better off drafting a LT out of college and converting him with the expectation he'd replace Samuels in a couple of years.

Samuels could get to a few more Pro Bowls if he moved to RT and with Gross in town he could move over.

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by rypper11

Samuels could get to a few more Pro Bowls if he moved to RT and with Gross in town he could move over.

I guess the trick is whether the team has the cap room to make such a big signing. An offensive like consisting of Gross and Samuels at tackles, a stud guard or center picked up at #13th, and two other veterans, would make a decent line.

[KLHJ2]

Originally Posted by rypper11

Samuels could get to a few more Pro Bowls if he moved to RT and with Gross in town he could move over.

FYI, for some reason only LT's get selected to the Pro Bowl. Samuels would likely not see another Pro Bowl if he were moved to RT. With that being said, I am not opposed to the idea of Samuels on the right side. He usually plays the right side when he goes to the Pro Bowl.

For the Skins to move him to the right, we would need to add one hell of a tackle on the left this offseason. In reality I cannot see us moving him for at least another season, but it would be great if we could. I concur that Gross could be the man to move him, but I doubt that we will get him.

[rypper11]

Originally Posted by Angry

FYI, for some reason only LT's get selected to the Pro Bowl. Samuels would likely not see another Pro Bowl if he were moved to RT. With that being said, I am not opposed to the idea of Samuels on the right side. He usually plays the right side when he goes to the Pro Bowl.

I was surprised to see that you are right. Jon Runyon (2002), Lincoln Kennedy (2000, 2001, 2002), Korey Stringer (2000) and Erik Williams (1999) are the few I found in the past decade.
I was thinking of Joe Jacoby when I suggested it but despite how great he was on the right, his only Pro Bowls came when he was at LT (probably due to the exposure of going against Lawrence Taylor).
If (and this is my dream) we can sign Jordan Gross I think the move still makes sense but Samuels probably wouldn't make many if any more Pro Bowls. Of course, IMO his name got him there this year more than his on field production.