Demarcus Ware extension

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Originally Posted by dirthogs311

Why isn't the media stating what the contract is worth over time? It's well over 100 million dollars yet they have to sugar coat it by saying it's worth 13 million per season - so the Cowboys look like geniuses and we look like "idiots" for signing Haynesworth to a "100 million dollar deal with potential of 117 million". I am convinced the media hates the Washington Redskins.

The reason "they" are not saying it is because it isn't the case. Ware's deal is worth about $80M not $100M and it's 6 years not 7.


Look down the road - - as everyone here is wont to do when projecting player capabilities into the future - - and ask yourself who you would rather have 5 years from now: DeMarcus Ware or Albert Haynesworth?


Candidly, I think Ware will be the more valuable player and Haynesworth will likely be hobbling by then. I'd prefer to be wrong about that one, but I think that's the case.


The media does NOT hate the Redskins. The media LOVES the Redskins because the Redskins organiztion gives the media stories to run with 12 months a year. When it is a "slow week" in NFL News - - say no one shot himself in the leg or no one ran over a pedestrian and killed them - - the media can always count on the Skins' organization to do something that will create a story such as:

Hiring a head coach who had never been a head coach anywhere in football and who had never been a coordinator before.

Hiring a "consultant" who turned into the de facto offensive coordinator despite that "consultant" having been out of football for about 3 years.

Signing a rag-armed QB and then trading up in the draft to take a QB in the first round.

Signing the first player to a nine figure contract.

Suing season ticket holders who don't pay up.

Every sportswriter in the country loves having the Skins around to use as a "go to source" when they need a column on deadline...