Lavar Gone

[Sammy Baugh Fan]

Well, I always liked Levar and wish the best for him. I just pray he does not land in the NFC East. ack!

I agree with CRT3.
Mild Cancer is like Partial Amputation


peace to all
Hail Skins and hang on for this week's wacky ride!

[12thMan]

Originally Posted by dmek25

as much as i love lavar,this works for the skins.the last year and a half lavar has done a whole lot of complaining with only alittle bit of playing.he also makes a ton of money.any ideas on who is going to pay him what he thinks he is worth?

I think he could end up with a west cost team either Niners or Raiders.

[#56fanatic]

Originally Posted by TAFKAS

Using an old computer at my parents house right now. Just have dial-up on this one

anyhow, a sad day for #56fan, 56fanatic, railcon56@comcast.net and of course, Offiss56

this really makes my Monday morning suck ass. I think he left with class and by paying 4+million back, giving us additional cap space will save face for him. I hope to god he goes to the AFC. My guess would be pittsburg since that is where he is from. If there is an agreement signed, there is a possiblity of him resigning, but by the way the coaching staff has acted(not necesarily bad) just by thinking they can do w/ someone cheaper, I doubt he would resign.

[Schneed10]

I differ from you guys. I'm happy as a pig in sh*t that he is gone. He plays like a chicken with his head cut off. When his knee is healthy and he has speed, he can play like a chicken with his head cut off and still make plays. His speed made up for his tendencies to be out of position.

But if you have balky knees, or if you're starting to age, your speed declines. And all of a sudden playing like the chicken with no head starts to become a liability.

This move should have cleared quite a bit of cap room for us. I will do my best to figure out how much. We're much better off without him. Bravo Gibbs.

[#56fanatic]

Originally Posted by Big C

if lavar goes to the eagles, giants or cowfvcks, then we will know he has been lying this whole time about loving the redskins

You know, I was going to go right past this, but I had to stop and respond. Dude, that is rediculous. These guys love playing football. LaVar loved the area, the fans and the redskins. If he went to one of the NFC east teams that spells doom for us twice a year. It doesn't mean that he hates the redskins, or lied. are you serious. Are we back at highschool here. This is a business and thats how todays NFL is. Emmit smith, to me, was never a Cardinal he will be a cowboy for life. same w/ Jerry Rice always a 49er, Jonny U always a colt. LAVAR will always be a REDSKINS!!

[skins052bgr8]

Could this be a loop hole in getting under the cap for them to release him and sign him back to a contract that benefits him as well as the team? Not sure the #'s or the legality of that. This was done extremely quiet and if it was on bad terms someone would have spouted off and made this into a Laverneus Coles deal where Snyder told him to watch it on his plasma or restructure. Maybe for once though it is as simple as it sounds and the best for both sides.

[Schneed10]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2355921

Not sure if this was posted in here or not:

Per ESPN, the moves saves us $4.2 million in cap room this year, as he forfeited $4.2 million in guarantees. That means the bonuses that were accelerated to the 2006 season were reduced by $4.2 million.

Smart move for the Skins. That means before any restructures, we're $16 million over the cap. After Brunell, Portis, Thomas, Jansen, Wynn, and Springs restructured, we should be able to get under the cap just by releasing our bums (Bowen, Harris, Noble, etc).

[Paintrain]

Good luck Lavar.. Hope to see you do well (preferably in the AFC) wherever you land..

[freddyg12]

This sucks for several different reasons; a face of the franchise is gone, a guy who might be on the verge of maturing as a person & player, and the whole thing has just been bad karma. WE still don't know who's right or wrong in this, though all of us probably hate the postons.
But if things couldn't be mended w/Lavar here, I commend Gibbs for brokering the deal this past year to restructure his contract & mgmt. now for not letting this thing fester like the 6.5 bonus dispute did.
This looks like another poor biz move by Lavar, kinda like him not giving the nfl permission to sell his jerseys a few years back. If he thinks he's gonna get big $ this year, he may be surprised. My early pick is Arizona, they have the $ and would probably love to have someone w/his star appeal. He wants to play in Pitt, & probably would for less $. Sadly, philly is in position to sign him to & he's a Pa. native.

But, you never know, since teams can rescind the cuts they've made during the cba negotiations, maybe just maybe, Lavar will realize this was a mistake & Danny et al will welcome him back like the prodigal son, at a discounted rate of course. This is highly, highly unlikely, but its not unlikely that Lavar will realize this is not the best business move for him.

[Schneed10]

It's a good bet SD picks him up if they can afford it. He loved playing for Marty, and Marty loved him.

[#56fanatic]

Originally Posted by Schneed10

I differ from you guys. I'm happy as a pig in sh*t that he is gone. He plays like a chicken with his head cut off. When his knee is healthy and he has speed, he can play like a chicken with his head cut off and still make plays. His speed made up for his tendencies to be out of position.

But if you have balky knees, or if you're starting to age, your speed declines. And all of a sudden playing like the chicken with no head starts to become a liability.

This move should have cleared quite a bit of cap room for us. I will do my best to figure out how much. We're much better off without him. Bravo Gibbs.

You act like he is 35 years old. He is 27!!! not even is his prime. He bulked up because of the knee troubles, he played his ass off the last 5 games, had 12 tackles in two playoff games, int. Its going to be a mistake.

[firstdown]

I think Lavar and Williams have had issues the whole time that Williams has been with Washington. Williams will probably be here for a while and our next head coach. The team and Lavar know this and may have just thought it was time to part ways.

[freddyg12]

Originally Posted by #56fanatic

You act like he is 35 years old. He is 27!!! not even is his prime. He bulked up because of the knee troubles, he played his ass off the last 5 games, had 12 tackles in two playoff games, int. Its going to be a mistake.

yeah, his game was coming back to him & he was just starting to show some discipline in the system. HIs problem has always been his individuality, on & off the field. He's been a bit self-absorbed & that comes through in his rebellion on the field, freelancing & biting like a gator for every junior varsity play fake that comes his way.
I was thinking at the end of the season & playoffs that he was finally willing to play team ball. Now, he might mature somewhere else at a much lower price.
Oh well, maybe we should consider this the last tie to the era of big Danny signings.

[TheMalcolmConnection]

I know people are upset over the fact that we lost "the face of the team", but I truly believe all of this CBA stuff was a blessing in disguise (provided it gets extended). It allowed us to put some pressure on people to make some moves saturating the free agency market, driving prices down. If the CBA gets extended we will actually have plenty of cap room to make some big acquisitions.

[irish]

Originally Posted by freddyg12

This sucks for several different reasons; a face of the franchise is gone, a guy who might be on the verge of maturing as a person & player, and the whole thing has just been bad karma. WE still don't know who's right or wrong in this, though all of us probably hate the postons.
But if things couldn't be mended w/Lavar here, I commend Gibbs for brokering the deal this past year to restructure his contract & mgmt. now for not letting this thing fester like the 6.5 bonus dispute did.
This looks like another poor biz move by Lavar, kinda like him not giving the nfl permission to sell his jerseys a few years back. If he thinks he's gonna get big $ this year, he may be surprised. My early pick is Arizona, they have the $ and would probably love to have someone w/his star appeal. He wants to play in Pitt, & probably would for less $. Sadly, philly is in position to sign him to & he's a Pa. native.

But, you never know, since teams can rescind the cuts they've made during the cba negotiations, maybe just maybe, Lavar will realize this was a mistake & Danny et al will welcome him back like the prodigal son, at a discounted rate of course. This is highly, highly unlikely, but its not unlikely that Lavar will realize this is not the best business move for him.

LA is gone and he's not coming back no matter what. This is a great move for the team as LA was highly overpaid and highly over-rated. LA was a good LB but never materialized into the great player most of us expected he would become.