Should Dockery Be Re-signed Before Free Agency Starts (next Friday)

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by Skinz4life

Washington needs to resign Dock for no other reason than to show the locker room that they are willing to take care of their own. You hear Coach Gibbs talk about core redskins then you watch them throw loads of money at some big name free agent while forgetting about the core redskins, you can't underestimate what this does to a locker room. I hope that they have learned their lesson because if they haven't we could be in for another long long season.

It's not like they don't want him back. If a deal doesn't get done, it's not any more our fault than his. From what I understand, we aren't lowballing him or anything. I just don't think he's going to sign here before talking to some other teams at the combine.

If he can find a very lucrative deal, he's gonna walk. The only thing that would be our fault is if we further compromised our future to prevent him from walking by coming over the top.

Conversely, if he finds that the market has little interest in him, I think he will be locked up through 2011 by this time next week.

[Skinz4life]

I agree that you don't want to overpay for his services but this is the corner washington has painted itself into, if they don't resign him then they have to go out and sign someone else to start (because we haven't developed anyone behind him to step in and start, but thats another thread for another time) then you have to fight the preception that they won't take care of their own free agents. Because we all know that if he leaves the FO will go throw a lot of money at some other FA guard and then in a year from now we will be talking about Dockery just like Ryan clark.

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by Skinz4life

I agree that you don't want to overpay for his services but this is the corner washington has painted itself into, if they don't resign him then they have to go out and sign someone else to start (because we haven't developed anyone behind him to step in and start, but thats another thread for another time) then you have to fight the preception that they won't take care of their own free agents. Because we all know that if he leaves the FO will go throw a lot of money at some other FA guard and then in a year from now we will be talking about Dockery just like Ryan clark.

I think from this standpoint, we are in the same boat as every other NFL franchise. There's going to be some resentment in every locker room if you let a high character guy walk, but that's just the nature of the game. It's February, guys will get over it. We just have to make sure to make the right business decision, and that's to not get desperate here. If Dockery is going to sign with the first team who gives him a big contract, hopefully that's not going to be us.

[Skinz4life]

This is the perfect example of why the draft is so important, if we can't resign him and some other team is willing to throw a huge contract at him we will be in a tough spot because we don't have a 2nd, 3rd, or even a 4th rd pick to fill that need so then we'll end up being force to over pay for some vet. I hope he comes to his sense and signs with the Skins.

[firstdown]

This thread is just like the John Jansen thread and how he might be gone this year. Stop jumping to conclusions on everything that has or has not happened. I keep seeing people getting mad over things they "THINK" the skins might do and they have not done anything as of yet.

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by firstdown

This thread is just like the John Jansen thread and how he might be gone this year. Stop jumping to conclusions on everything that has or has not happened. I keep seeing people getting mad over things they "THINK" the skins might do and they have not done anything as of yet.

The difference is that Jansen was already under contract for next season. Had we taken the path of least action with JJ, he would have been back anyway. If we do that with Dockery, he's gone.

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

The difference is that Jansen was already under contract for next season. Had we taken the path of least action with JJ, he would have been back anyway. If we do that with Dockery, he's gone.

I was refering to this thread where people where jumping up and down about Jansen and his future as a Skin.http://www.thewarpath.net/redskins-l...ht=john+jansen

[That Guy]

the time to get another OG to replace dockery was last year when we had 2nd and 3rd round picks, the draft was deep there, and there'd be a year to get the new guy ready. this isn't the year to try and find someone else with little cap room and no draft picks.

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by That Guy

the time to get another OG to replace dockery was last year when we had 2nd and 3rd round picks, the draft was deep there, and there'd be a year to get the new guy ready. this isn't the year to try and find someone else with little cap room and no draft picks.

I agree with you, but thats irrelivant now.

[JDALY27]

Q: Is it important for this team to maintain stability on the roster as much as possible?
A: "It all boils down to the [personnel officials] knowing what they have. You can't listen to outsiders who say, 'This [player] hasn't done anything for this team.' Some guys may not have had a fair chance to show what they can do. With that in mind, the only thing you can do is try to bring everybody back and hopefully things go a little bit better. You have a new offense, new quarterback, new running back, and as far as getting something out of it, you can see promise for next season."

This was Santana Moss in a Redskins.com interview.

If The Skins don't sign Dock longterm they are on Mars. Seeing him develope under Bugel has been awesome. He came in a fat mush and now he's got Pro Bowl potential (maybe I'm bias a bit).

Keep ALL (96%) the players and upgrade through the draft for Defense. Maybe one or two free agents and that's it.........

[MTK]

I'm all in favor of keeping Dock at a fair price... we can't let him name his price just for the sake of trying to correct the wrongs of the past.

He's not the top guard available, I think we'll wait and see how high the bar is set by the signings of guys like Steinbach and move to re-sign Dockery accordingly.

[PWNED]

as far as im concerned, dockery has proven he can be an integral part of one of the top o-lines in the league. id give him a similar contract to steinbach because we need to learn to establish that once you come here, perform well, and show improvement that we'll overpay for our OWN.

[ArtMonkDrillz]

How much would it cost to put the franchise tag on him? Is it already too late for that anyway?

[That Guy]

Originally Posted by ArtMonkDrillz

How much would it cost to put the franchise tag on him? Is it already too late for that anyway?

not too late, but all OLinemen are clumped together:
Franchise tag - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

franchising him would cost 9.6mill for this year. that's just not happening.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by That Guy

not too late, but all OLinemen are clumped together:
Franchise tag - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

franchising him would cost 9.6mill for this year. that's just not happening.

Definitely not gonna happen.