Chris Chester Signs

[skins89moss]

I like the signing of Chester, and the releasing of Rabach. Rabach was a true pro and always lined up to play on Sundays. God Bless Casey and thanks for representing the Redskins Nation with class. Anyone know if Big Mike Williams is coming to camp after last year blood clots kept him out?

[skinsfan69]

Not sure this is an upgrade over Rabach. Are we just signing guys just for the sake of signing them????

[Terpfan76]

Originally Posted by skinsfan69

Not sure this is an upgrade over Rabach. Are we just signing guys just for the sake of signing them????

I liked Rabach, but just about anyone at this point is an upgrade over Rabach. He just got pushed around constantly. I think they are paying to much for Chester, but he might end up playing guard while Montgomery plays center. T. Williams, Chester, Montgomery, Heyer, Brown wouldn't look to bad. Would love to see Capers and Hurt push some of these guys.

[Monkeydad]

Confirmed, Chester is going to play at RG.

Twitter

[DCtoAZ]

can I say any louder that I LOVE THIS NEW REGIME .... little moves like this are what builds winners ... once you become the Patriots you can do the haynesworth, ochocinco moves but until then you have to have solid core players and build from that .. i love it .. we will be competitive ... i really think our offense is going to be smoother than we've seen in a LONG time and the Defense is getting younger, faster, and stronger .. WTF is going on, I feel like a real NFL team !! Let's celebrate in February not in July this is awesome !

[Jontrem]

Originally Posted by DCtoAZ

can I say any louder that I LOVE THIS NEW REGIME .... little moves like this are what builds winners ... once you become the Patriots you can do the haynesworth, ochocinco moves but until then you have to have solid core players and build from that .. i love it .. we will be competitive ... i really think our offense is going to be smoother than we've seen in a LONG time and the Defense is getting younger, faster, and stronger .. WTF is going on, I feel like a real NFL team !! Let's celebrate in February not in July this is awesome !

I like the enthusiasm!!!

[htownskinfan]

Originally Posted by DCtoAZ

can I say any louder that I LOVE THIS NEW REGIME .... little moves like this are what builds winners ... once you become the Patriots you can do the haynesworth, ochocinco moves but until then you have to have solid core players and build from that .. i love it .. we will be competitive ... i really think our offense is going to be smoother than we've seen in a LONG time and the Defense is getting younger, faster, and stronger .. WTF is going on, I feel like a real NFL team !! Let's celebrate in February not in July this is awesome !

I wish I had your enthusiam and optimism but its still too early with this regime.Im still pissed at them for the Mcnabb trade,{total bust}and the Haynesworth situation,which is as much on Shanahan as it is Big Al.What kind of fing moron takes a top 5 defense and switches it when you have 100 million tied up in a guy that plays the 4-3? Nobody or nothing will ever be able to justify that switch to me.
On the other hand,am i happy with the moves theyve made the past few days,yes
But were still going into the season with John {WHO?}Beck and Kellen Clemons,not happy with that situation

[Monkeydad]

"Regime" sounds communist but I agree...we're on the right track and have some great leaders finally! Now our blind optimism can be real optimism.

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by Monkeydad

"Regime" sounds communist but I agree...we're on the right track and have some great leaders finally! Now our blind optimism can be real optimism.

Mine is more like nearsighted optimism. LOL.

[SirClintonPortis]

Originally Posted by Monkeydad

"Regime" sounds communist but I agree...we're on the right track and have some great leaders finally! Now our blind optimism can be real optimism.

It's from French.

[Monkeydad]

Originally Posted by SirClintonPortis

It's from French.

Even worse than I thought then.

[Monkeydad]

I come in here every season as one of the few optimists here...always hoping for the best. In the past I had to try to love the Vinny moves...and they always backfired.

Now, I can see some REAL progress and actually believe what I say when I think the team will be better.

We're really lucky to have hired both Allen and Shanahan. We really need to appreciate them after a decade of Snyder and Ceratto trying to do whatever they were trying to do.

Spurrier seemed like such a great idea at the time. Heath Shuler was so exciting...until he stepped on the field.

[GTripp0012]

I think Bruce Allen is a good executive (he's won exec of the year before in the NFL), and I think there's plenty of evidence from this offseason if you want to see he's a good executive.

But overpaying Bowen and Chester is overpaying Bowen and Chester. Allen's thing is good contracts, and he's lived up to the hype so far, but his last two signings are not good, team-friendly contracts.

It's still way too early to limit the parallels between Vinny Cerrato's show and Mike Shanahan's show. If Shanahan is different, he'll win more games. Two years under Cerrato, we averaged six wins per year. One year under Shanahan, we won six games. If our current executives are better than our prior ones, it will show in the results. I promise.

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

I think Bruce Allen is a good executive (he's won exec of the year before in the NFL), and I think there's plenty of evidence from this offseason if you want to see he's a good executive.

But overpaying Bowen and Chester is overpaying Bowen and Chester. Allen's thing is good contracts, and he's lived up to the hype so far, but his last two signings are not good, team-friendly contracts.

It's still way too early to limit the parallels between Vinny Cerrato's show and Mike Shanahan's show. If Shanahan is different, he'll win more games. Two years under Cerrato, we averaged six wins per year. One year under Shanahan, we won six games. If our current executives are better than our prior ones, it will show in the results. I promise.

GTripp, I heard somewhere that with this new floor, salary contracts this offseason would be a bit inflated and that teams would overpay for players. Do you think this is true?

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by Ruhskins

GTripp, I heard somewhere that with this new floor, salary contracts this offseason would be a bit inflated and that teams would overpay for players. Do you think this is true?

There is no legislative incentive in 2011 for GMs to overpay players.

In the Redskins case, they enter 6 PM tonight with practically no player salary, so no one was saying they shouldn't spend money that they have. If I wanted to root for a penny pinching franchise, there's always the Bengals. But the cap freedom should just mean the freedom to make a bunch of good contracts that are team friendly and don't have to be structured with a limit in mind. The Redskins took on what appears to be two bad contracts in Bowen and Chester (I say appears because I haven't seen details on the Chester deal).

They are still no where near the 2011 salary cap for the record.