Per Mark Maske:

Such a move would not square with what Vinny Cerrato told Mark Maske (per Redskins Insider): The rumor was also picked up by guy with serious last name at Fanhouse who pointed out, what feels like the eleventy millionth time, the dreaded Hall=overrated claim. Incomplete list of people who feel the same way: Roy Williams, a reader at Falcoholic who would know more than me, Aaron Schatz kind of sort of, and every single message board user ever, apparently. For serious just go search DeAngelo Hall Overrated on yahoo or google and you'll have no trouble finding every single team's internet warrior partisans criticizing him as an overrated cornerback.

I don't have any idea if he's overrated. Honesty demands I admit no special knowledge on NFL defensive backs. Even equipped with that knowledge, I haven't the film or memory available to recall how Hall played. Maybe he's overrated, but I wouldn't know anything about that. I do know, howeva!, that a first round pick is a valuable thing in the National Football League, and if that's what the Falcons are seeking I imagine that's what they feel entitled to. As to what DeAngelo Hall feels entitled to, he's a 24 year old multiple pro bowl cornerback existing in an ever increasing financial arena that pays handsomely to allegedly good defensive backs. He will demand and receive a new contract to be a Redskin. My criticism with such a move needs not have anything to do with how accurately rated Hall is, but rather with the amount of money and draft picks he'll cost. Also at Big Blue View.

In a semi-related piece, Ryan Wilson at Fanhouse ain't buying the Cerrato claim that this will be a quiet offseason. He quotes the Denver Post claiming the Redskins are interested in Javon Walker and reminds:

Didn't we give up two draft picks for TJ Duckett to Atlanta? You think they're also eager beavers to pick up a phone call from Washington?

Doesn't it trouble anyone else that Your Washington Redskins are apparently the easy mark in the NFL? Mr. Snyder, you have the Falcons on line one, they say you've won the EURO MILLION SPAINSH LOTTERY INTERNATIONAL and all you have to do... [That's from an actual email I received and, I must say, that this con-artist's intuition is better than that of actual language. If Spanish is spoken in Spain, shouldn't they be Spainish speakers as they were in Middle English, apparently? Or even Spainsh speakers?]