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Dan Snyder Is Having the Best Day Ever

Two big things to report today. The NFL announced that the salary cap will raise $12 million this year to $123 million. More free agents!!! *sigh*

The cap was due to increase $7 million to $123 million this season, but additional adjustments stipulated in the current CBA will increase the total amount that teams can spend on player compensation to about $128 million. The $12 million increase is the largest in three years.

The current top free agents are Edge, Derrick Brooks, Jon Runyan, Marvin Harrison, and Chris McAlister.

In other news, Dan Snyder (and Redskins Nation) dodged a bullet and won a lawsuit in the Federal courts allowing them to keep "Redskins" as their mascot name.

The decision issued Friday by the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington doesn't address the main question of racism at the center of the case. Instead, it upholds the lower court's decision in favor of the football team on a legal technicality. The court agreed that the seven Native Americans waited too long to challenge the trademark first issued in 1967. 

 

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we go ahead and ink Rogers and McIntosh (and Sellers) to an extension now.

"The character of a person is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence." -Vince Lombardi.

by VA_Skin on May 15, 2009 8:22 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

+1 +1 and maybe

Rogers and Mcintosh should get new deals, core young Redskins on the defense.
Sellers is already being paid through 2011, contract signed in 2007, and should not be given a new deal unless it can be done to free up additional cap space, IMO

by dr WNC on May 16, 2009 7:42 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Funny!

Hahaha that picture made me laugh so much!

by Abstract Capital on May 16, 2009 10:50 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Definitely Rogers

But I’m not sold on McIntosh’s health. Why not go after another OL. Aren’t there some steals out there right now? I assume that one or two will pop up before the season starts.

by monk81 on May 16, 2009 12:02 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Edge wants to start...

I would sign Rogers and Rocky too (assuming Rocky would not be too expensive). But as long as we’re passing out money, why not a moderate extension to our boy JC?

by Ken Meringolo on May 16, 2009 3:00 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

with all that money

if we sign Rocky for an extension we’d need to get bionic knees for him, too. Hopefully we get a true #1 WR emerge this year that we could lock up for a few years, but otherwise we should focus on OL depth… and no Edge, we need to start grooming a young RB who can help spell CP26

by Helm on May 16, 2009 7:45 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Edge

is that guy he is one of the best blocking backs EVER and 3rd down is not a running down for the most part and we need to protect Jason on 3rd down.

by RedskinCali63 on May 16, 2009 10:21 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Yea

but he won’t start anywhere and he is so good at what he does. We will be so much better on 3rd down with him in the game.

by RedskinCali63 on May 16, 2009 4:52 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Edge

is only a year older than Betts (who is largely ineffective in the red zone). I believe Betts has 2 more years on his contract. If we signed Edge to a 2-year deal, that would definitely be an upgrade over Betts. With CP dropping 10+ lbs off his playing weight, Edge (6’0", 220 lbs.) would be a bigger compliment to CP. We’ve already brought in the smaller speedsters in Aldridge and Dorsey to develop.

I’m not certain how Edge would handle running in the Beast, but he is probably the 2nd best RB blocker in the NFL, behind CP (JC needs all of the blockers he can get with our patchwork OL). He would have to accept that CP is the starter, but Edge would probably be the backup on any NFL team right now anyway.

"The character of a person is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence." -Vince Lombardi.

by VA_Skin on May 17, 2009 12:59 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I need to find my bong!

What the skins need is a field goal kicker and a punter.By God how hard is it.Year after year.Please spend the money on special teams.Its all about the kicking game.

by Robertdogsworld on May 17, 2009 9:45 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Punter

The Skins signed Hunter Smith so they are half way there.

by KevinE on May 17, 2009 10:55 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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