Skins give Samuels $15.75M bonus

[sportscurmudgeon]

Ramseyfan:

OK, I'll take a shot at your projected starting line-up on offense:

QB Ramsey: Lots of potential but no track record of success in three years. The clock is ticking. It's about time to say to him win 10 games or take a seat.


WR: Coles Williams/Willaimson: Assuming that Coles is actually here - remember he can hold out until game 10 and then come in and claim his spot on the team and it counts as a year on his contract - and assuming that he plays hard all the time, that could be a very good tandem. If Coles isn't here or isn't motivated to be here, looking at either Williams or Williamson to be the #1 guy on a team that hopes to make the playoffs is a tall order.


RB: Portis: Quality RB; one of the 5 or 6 best in the league.


HB Cooley: Good but certainly not spectacular. He'll do - as long as the WRs are productive. If the offense depends on him to catch a lot of passes and to do a lot of blocking, that's not a ticket to the playoffs.


OL Samuels, Dockery, Rabach, Thomas, Jansen: Should be much improved over last year simply by the return of Jansen. Thomas is solid and dependable. Rabach is an upgrade over Freidman/Raymer but don't get carried away thinking that this is a HoF center who will make NFL fans forget that Jim Ringo and Jim Otto ever played the game. Rabach is good; he is not great. Dockery is like Ramsey. He shows potential but he has not done jack-shit yet. This is the time to do it or to step aside or to be tossed overboard. He seems coachable and willing to work but he hasn't yet shown much actual in-game skills. And Samuels has to avoid the infamous "fat wallet syndrome" or the OL might be as bad as last year if both he and Dockery hit the skids.


TE Kyle Brady: A marginal improvement over what is here already.


If all goes perfectly, this is an offense that will be better than last year's but not one for the ages. If things don't all fall in place, it will be only marginally better than last year's - - meaning they will score 19 points game instead of 18.