Redskins resign DeAngelo Hall to 4 Year Deal

[over the mountain]

seems to be a team friendly deal re the guaranteed money so that makes me happy.

i used to hate hall bc of the high completion percentage against him and his taking late/cheap shots every now and then but .....

i love his commitment to the team and fans. really do.

i also love the fact he started sticking in nose in hard direct hits and stopped doing the deion sander's ohhhh-layyyy move.

i would like hall to be our no 2, amerson no 3 and we sign a no 1 corner but ... having 2 no 2 ability corners in hall and amerson on the cheap isnt such a bad situation.

i used to be a hall hater but over the past few years the man has really grown on me in his maturity and play.. i like him.

[Meks]

i'm liking the continuity aspect of our defense so far this off-season, coaches included.. even tho haslett really makes me scratch my head sometimes.. players seem to have his back so.. this move points to more team friendly and 'positive direction' moves going forward IMO.

[GTripp0012]

Hall is getting paid like a no. 2 corner. He was better than that last year, not so much the years before that.

This is a pretty solid deal for the Redskins. I don't think Hall could have gotten more than this on the open market, and I think it would have been prudent to see what was out there. The CB market is flooded, and Hall's agent did great to get $3+ million in SB money from a team that had a lot of cap space.

On the other hand, if you can negotiate a reasonable contract, it's hard to argue with that. The top corners on the market will sign for a lot more than this.

[SirLK26]

Maybe one elite FA is a possibility. Like I've said before, I'm no cap expert. But after we resign Orakpo, Riley, Baker, Jackson, and Moss, to list some of the most expensive, we'll probably have less than 15 million in space left(unless we tag Orakpo; in that case, it will be considerably less). If you add in an elite FA, you're at less than 10 million in space; with draft picks, UDFAs, and lots of FAs still to sign.

Perhaps I'm way off base and/or not explaining myself very well. If that's the case, I trust someone more cap-knowledgeable than myself will weigh in.

[FRPLG]

I was an open advocate for giving dhall the proverbial boot until he put it together this past year. He had good to great efforts versus several top flight WRs. I'm not worried he will relapse. He never struck me as underachieving due to laziness or sloppiness. It was more like he just wasn't very good but tried hard. It seemed he backed off the gambling a bit last season and it made him better overall.

[over the mountain]

there wasnt much to appreciate before 2012 imo.

the dude was burnt toast in 2011.

[Gary84Clark]

People have Darrell Green as their standard, but Darrell Green was a different era and he had a great d-line to work with.

[Schneed10]

Hall gives up a lot but he's a big play guy. Gets INTs and tends to return them well. Those can be difference-making plays in a game.

Problem was the rest of our team stunk so bad that even when he made his big plays it wasn't enough to swing the result in our favor.

I've never seen so many wasted defensive TDs in my life!

Have to take the good with the bad and when you weigh it all out, he's OK as a starting CB. Since they got him for a mediocre financial commitment, it's all OK as long as we can land our impact guys at other positions.

[Monkeydad]

Starters Hall and Amerson combined projections in in 2014:

INTs: 15
TDs: 7

[GTripp0012]

A lot of the polarizing opinions on Hall have moderated as he's gotten older. The salary and cap number has come way down, the performance has gone up each of the last two years, and the frequency of dumb penalties are getting less and less every year. It's a lot harder to find a voice in the industry that thinks Hall sucks. Three years ago, that was consensus opinion.

The Hall truthers (not the Hall fans, the truthers) are still an annoying bunch. You know the guy who thinks Hall wasn't beat even once last season? That's the guy I'm talking about. But that guy is getting harder to find also.

DeAngelo Hall has come back to the Redskins given two separate chances to leave, and that will endear him to the fanbase. As it should.

[skinsguy]

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

A lot of the polarizing opinions on Hall have moderated as he's gotten older. The salary and cap number has come way down, the performance has gone up each of the last two years......

That's really the meat and potatoes of it. I'm glad Hall is back and I'm glad he has stepped it up.

[Chico23231]

"The hall truthers"...lol that's gold

[skinsfaninok]

very happy with this move, Hall was our best DB last yr

[Skins4L]

Hall & Amerson can get it done with help over the top.

Guys like Sherman for instance.. cmon bro you wouldn't look as good as you do if Earl Thomas (a muschamp texas guy man I wish we had) AND Kam Chancellor are zonin out up top ready to jump. Its soooo important he has an elite S to let him play zone. Halls a zone guy. Let him do what he does best it will look like that game vs Manning this past year a lot more often.

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by Skins4L

Hall & Amerson can get it done with help over the top.

Guys like Sherman for instance.. cmon bro you wouldn't look as good as you do if Earl Thomas (a muschamp texas guy man I wish we had) AND Kam Chancellor are zonin out up top ready to jump. Its soooo important he has an elite S to let him play zone. Halls a zone guy. Let him do what he does best it will look like that game vs Manning this past year a lot more often.

Excellent post and excellent football thinking.