King predicts Haynesworth to Redskins

[BigHairedAristocrat]

Originally Posted by SBXVII

BHA, You wrote:If reports are true, almost 1/7th of the teams entire salary will be devoted to a guy approaching 30 years old, who hasn’t started a full seaason in his 7 year career, who was spotted driving his car over 100mph two day after going on probation for reckless driving, and whose performance is expected to drop dramatically once he signs a big contract. He was nothing special his first 5 years in the league.... even now, he only averages one sack every 2 games.


Then say:If the CBA goes away for good, then sure, sign haynesworth for all i care. its snyders money. Haynesworth is an upgrade to our DL...

He's either an upgrade or not. If he's as bad as you say then chemistry will not be there and the other players will not be able to keep him in line and have him training with them in the offseason. Otherwise he's an upgrade which we desperatly need and hopefully with team support players will help keep him on the straight and narrow, working out in the offseason, and becoming a moster for us.

Also everyone keeps refering to him being 30 something. He's 27. Supposedly a players prime considering some come out of the draft at 25 or 25 y/o. He has probably atleast 3 good yrs left if there is no major injuries and maybe even a total of 6 or 9 if we keep him as long as Griffin and Daniels. Both are 36 and 37 y/o and some of you are saying keep one or both.

I dont get where i say he would not be an upgrade.... we have a pretty horrible d-line. it doesnt take much to upgrade performance. Even if Haynesworth declines, he would still be an upgrade... just not one worth the contract he would get if there is a salary cap...

As to the ages of Griffin and Daniels, Griffin just turned 32 in december and his play has been steadily declining for 3 years. The last time he was a truly reliable and dominant DT, he was 29. Phillip Daniels is 35. He'll be 36 next month. He hasnt been a dominant DE, year in and year out, since 2002... when he was 28

Haynesworth will be 28 when the regular season begins. As a defensivelinemen who has been doubleteamed the majority of the past two years, hes taken a beating. DEs dont take as much of a beating, so their careers can usually last longer, but make no mistake - Haynesworth has either already hit his peak or he will hit it in the next year or two. After that, history suggests his play will steadily decline... but we'll still have to keep him on board because of his huge contract. I'm convinced there WILL be a salary cap at some point in the next few years, even if it goes away in 2010 and 2011.

But even if the salary cap goes away and stays away, and even if Haynesworth repeats his performance from last year in 2009, he isnt worth a 15-16M salary cap figure in 2009. If we can free up 16M or more in cap space this year, the money should be used to address several of our multiple positions of need - CB, LB, DT, DE, RG, LG, OT, WR, RB... you get the idea. If we sign Haynesworth and give him that much money in 2009, we may help our D-line but it will be at the expense of nearly every other position fo need we have. Its simply not worth it.