Demetric Evans Wants To Be A Starter
That's weird...oh wait, his agent is Drew Rosenhaus. Awesome. Talk about a thriving agent business. It's a wonder Drew doesn't relocate his headquarters to Washington. All he has to do is sign Redskins' backups to represent and he will always have a payday on the horizon.
Listen, I like Demetric Evans. I think his value to our team is pretty high. In the Washington Times article today, the Drew Rosenhaus effect begins. I love these through-the-media negotiations that Rosenhaus clients are famous for...scratch that...replace 'love' with 'would rather slam my nuts in the door than listen to'.
It's contract time and he 'wants to be a starter'. Yet, even he, at the end of the article, admits that HE WAS A STARTER LAST YEAR. Thank you Jebus! Obviously it is a money grab. (Spoiler alert: Rosenhaus client makes a play for a lucrative contract.)
He is going to be 30 years old next season. He has been a heck of a contributor to our defense in his role as a fill-in at end and tackle. We can not only use him, we probably need him. After all, he is pretty solid against the run, and I think it was Dallas that finally figured out if you attack our undersized ends every single play (Carter and Taylor), you can run all day against us.
But can we devote resources to this guy--starter salary-type resources? Iffy. Our defensive line is exactly where we need to be putting our resources. A guy that fits into our system at multiple spots with proven results is a good place to start. Yet age continues to be a problem on the line of scrimmage for us (both sides of the ball). Getting younger should be a primary goal. With a decision on Philip Daniels and Jason Taylor on the way, we could probably stall on the Evans' matter. For the purpose of this discussion, I am going to operate under the assumption we draft a DE at #13 (let's say Orakpo). If Daniels and Taylor are gone, I propose we re-sign Evans, start him and the rookie at the end spots, and move Carter back to LB. If Taylor comes back and Daniels is gone, we should lowball Evans, start the rookie and Taylor at the ends and move Carter to LB. We still have Chris Wilson and Rob Jackson to throw to the wolves out there at the end spots as backups right?
We also have to spend some dough to keep Golston and Montgomery, which to me are higher priorities than Evans, even though the two young tackles are restricted free agents.
Bottom line, I want Evans back, but not under a stupid contract that wraps up cap space we should be using on younger guys in the next couple of years. Unfortunately, Vinny's desk drawer has only one kind of contract template, which comes standard with an extra 2 years of length that make no sense, an extra $7 million to spread out over those extra 2 years, and requires a mandatory restructuring at the end of every year during the contract.
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It should not come to this but...
I would rather pay Demetric Evans a few extra bones to come back and let Pete Kendall walk. If we re-sign Kendall, he will start for us, because Bugel’s depth chart is based on age. Kendall is no slouch, but we need to go in a new direction there. If giving Evans few extra dollars removes the ability to re-sign Kendall, we win.
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Pay Evans, but not starter money. He’s proven that he can play, but if the team plans on going with DE in the draft, it’d be kind of dumb to have to pay 2 guys starters money to play the same position. If he can find a starting spot elsewhere, let him walk, but I feel like he might be this year’s Rock Cartwright, where he’s worth more to the skins than to any other team in the NFL.
Moving carter back to OLB isn’t a bad idea, but I think with some help at DT, he’ll be a nice pass rusher, but since he’s been here, he’s had to pick up the slack left from the interior deficencies.
this is a tough call
But I think you make him a decent offer and let him test the waters. If the baseball offseason was any indication, then teams won’t be falling all over themselves to sign middle of the road players. Maybe he comes back for what he’s actually worth.
Being smart with our signings needs to begin somewhere, even if it ends up hurting the team in the short term. This is as good a place as any to begin.
Also, sugar is right: Kendall should not be back. We have young guys there, and they need to play.
ehhhhh
I could almost see Cater at Sam, but what of Mr. Washington? He had a decent season, but his injury concerns will only increase over time. I am no evans fan, but having a stronger presence in the run defense will assist us as our DB corps is solid, and te linebackers only slightly less so. I wouldnt pay him anymore than a simple 4 year, 20 million dollar deal at the extreme end, and that’s with a fairly small amount of guaranteed cash. Its good to be back…finally. Hey guys!
Hmm....
Andre Carter is NOT going to like having to play LB again…
We are truly in the presense of greatness here…-- unnamedDBacksfan
Demetric
was one of the MVP’s of the defense last year. He plays every DL position and is a solid run stopper. I say cut Daniels and use that money to keep Evans. “Starting” on the DL is an interesting thing, because we shuffle so much. I could see him playing first and second downs most of the time at DE opposite Carter (I still think Taylor walks) and then spelling at Griff at DT when we want to have Carter and Wilson on the edges.
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The more I thought about it, I started to remember the whole thing with Andre Carter, that he was disgruntled when he left the 49er’s because they were making him play OLB, when he wanted to be a DE. I think we should leave him there, and get him some help.
Let Washington go, as much as I love the guy and his energy, like springs, he’s barely on the field. We need guys who will play full seasons, or damn near close to it. An interesting proposition would be to go after Bart Scott in free agency. I believe he was drafted as a MLB, but has proven over the years that he can play an OLB spot. This would be my ideal off season plan:
Throw big money at Haynseworth, because if you can get him, the whole complexion of the defense changes. Go after Bart Scott. I’m still not sure what kind of market there is for him, but after watching him play the last few years, I can honestly say that he’s one of the better linebackers in the league who doesnt’ get enough credit. I just don’t know what the cap situation will be, so it’s hard to imagine that we’d be able to do these deals.
So, you’re front seven would be: Carter, haynseworth, golston/montgomery, Evans, bart scott, london fletcher, rocky. On pass rushing downs, I could see them throwing Wilson in there to come off the edge.
if you did that, and didn’t touch the rest of the defense, I could see HUGE changes happening. It would also free you up to use your top pick to go O-line.
Getting Haynesworth, even minus Scott,
would make a huge change — the guy is possibly the most dominant defensive player in the league.
We are truly in the presense of greatness here…-- unnamedDBacksfan
Well...
Dana Stubblefield’s #‘s the year he went to FA were pretty close to Haynesworth’s numbers …. and look how that turned out for the Skins! Ha. http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/players/stats?playerId=405
I love Haynesworth a lot, I’m not ready to back-up the dumptruck of cash.
by Kevin Ewoldt on Feb 23, 2009 4:44 PM EST up reply actions

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