Skins vs. Cards Positives + Negatives

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Originally Posted by over the mountain

the problem on D is pretty straight forward imo. we are idiots.

we heavily invested in pass rush at the expense of the secondary. we went all in on the pass rush banking on the fact that it would cover up our secondary deficiencies.

sans the jags game, every QB has posted a QBR above 100 on us and I dont think offensive coordinators are having much trouble dissecting haslett's schemes and tendencies.

$21.6 mil = avg NFL team salary for DL
$26.5 = redskins salary

$15 mil = avg NFL team salary for LB
$23 = redskins salary

$12.3 mil = nfl avg for corners
$7.8 = redskins corners (highest cap hit is tracy porter at 2.8)

$8.2 mil = nfl avg for safeties
$3.7 = redskins (highest merriweather at 1)

Redskins salary-cap breakdown: Defense - Washington Redskins Blog - ESPN

Safety is the only secondary position I really care about. Corners, especially with the current rules, get paid way too much for a position in which they are counted on for maybe 10 out of 60 plays.

Virtually every top Super Bowl level defense the past decade or so has had a strong pass rush, some with average at best talent at corner (Giants and Steelers). In fact the only corner that I would say was really worthy of the praise they got this past decade was Charles Woodson during Green Bay's Super Bowl run. The Seahawks secondary gets a lot of attention but in truth the pass rush is likely making a lot of those guys look better than they are.

I can't totally blame them for the lack of safety as safety talent these past couple of years has been difficult to find for all 32 teams.