When told that the 9th pick in last year's draft wasn't always going to be a CB, that it turned into a CB when the Skins lost Smoot, you said...
MrRedskin28 said:
Uh-huh.Yeeeahh
C'mon... get real. You know as well as we do that the Commanders wanted to keep Smoot but you didn't have the caproom to pay him and still be able to get the Center you needed.
Do you know how much better the Commanders defense would've been with Smoot and using the #9 pick on Merriman or Ware, instead of Harris/Rogers and nobody at DE? That would've made a huge difference in your defense. Huge. Instead of a solid CB position, the Skins would've had a solid CB position, plus the edge rusher they so desperately need.
Skins fans want everyone to believe that Gibbs and Snyder said, "
You know, it sure would be nice to have Smoot at CB and use the 9th pick to take Merriman... but that just wouldn't be fair to Springs. I'd rather have a gaping hole at DE and not have Smoot make more than Springs." Uhhh, okay. I'm sure Snyder is so sensitive to the players feelings that he'll make the team worse all day long just to spare them any feelings of low self esteem.
That's BS. They could've made the Commanders defense a heck of a lot better by keeping Pierce and Smoot and using the 9th pick overall to nab Merriman or Ware. Instead they went into the season with a marginal CB in Harris and a rookie in Rogers sharing the CB spot and a hole at MLB where Pierce used to be. To think that they didn't want to make the defense much better because they didn't want to hurt Springs and Washington's feelings is just stupid. They didn't do it because they couldn't afford to, plain and simple.
What were they supposed to say though? That because of stupid salary cap spending and missing on past draft choices they were in a spot where they couldn't afford to keep two guys who Gibbs had recently called "core" Commanders? Yeah, that would've gone over well with their propaganda machine folks. Art and Bubba probably would've had a corinary on the spot. They fed you guys a line of BS which you all took hook, line, and sinker.:laugh2:
And Marshall making 100 tackles? Big whoop. Any player at that MLB position should make 100 or more tackles unless he's dead. Eugene Lockhart had 222 tackles for Jimmy Johnson in his first year coaching. That was such a great feat that Jimmy couldn't get him out of there fast enough. Why? Because he wasn't very good... just every play was funneled right at him. So giving Marshal's total tackles as proof that he adequately replaced Pierce probably isn't the wisest course of action.
