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[Schneed10]

This thread is just asinine. Everest, welcome to the board, and I hope you participate more. But your post just didn't make any sense.

Bailey was the biggest money grubber of them all! You talk about Smoot?! Leading up to his free agency status, Bailey said the team he signed with would be a business decision. In other words, whoever paid the most money. He had no loyalty to the Redskins.

We're much better off without Rod Gardner, even if we just end up cutting him. The guy can't catch consistently, and he's not a deep threat.

Arrington's situation has absolutely no impact on the locker room morale or on his play. It's a totally separate issue, which he knows he's going to lose, so he's now trying to resolve it. It will be swept under the rug very soon.

Taylor will be in camp. Taylor will play this year since his trial will be postponed till after the season. He needs to clean up his act for sure, but you have to wonder if the media is making a bigger deal of this than it really is. The media loves to say, "oh this will affect chemistry, oh that will affect chemistry. This is a locker room distraction, that is a locker room distraction." Is it REALLY? Do the other players care? Cooley himself said in our chat that it hasn't affected the other players. They just continue to go about their business. And there's no reason to believe Taylor will be distracted in practices and crap like that. The media just loves to create a story when there really isn't one there. After all, that's how they sell newspapers and magazines.

If you're going to be worried about the Skins, worry about how they'll replace Antonio Pierce's playcalling abilities on D. Worry about whether or not Ramsey will click with his new receivers. Worry about Walt Harris or Carlos Rogers performing as well as Smoot did. But man, don't get all caught up in these stupid media events like Taylor's trial and Arrington's grievance. The papers have obviously gotten to you because you're focusing on these stories that they've pumped up, when they won't have half the impact on our win/loss record that Ramsey to Moss and Ramsey to Patten and Ramsey to Jacobs will. Focus on what matters, don't let the papers tell you what to think.