Do We Want Shaun Rogers?

I said quite clearly 3 or 4 times, Philosophically I am against this, but was just wondering if there were competing arguments out there.

So just at least do the courtesy of reading beyond the headline before replying with words like “off your rocker” its just plain manners

We should not bring in Rogers to play Defensive End… or Safety. AH was disgruntled partially because we brought him in and flipped the scheme and where he played. I don’t think it compares in this scenario. Rogers will come in and play NT and probably be mediocre to great. The key is getting him at a price for this service.

should have checked.

I’ll check it out now

it’s called Guns N’ Airports.

But this team has so many needs, getting a band-aid solution in for a year or two wouldn’t be a bad idea. Then the Skins could focus their draft resources on… just about every other defensive position.

Still fairly certain I am against it, but there is some logic there

I do agree we definitely need to draft a NT to anchor us down and build around. That is the lesser known focal point of the 3-4 defense. Can’t live in the past and pick up a guy that used to be good 2 seasons ago! We can supplement our roster for less key positions via FA. But imho the key positions that must address through the draft are — NT, QB, OLB (Must get a 2nd or 3rd some how), DB/FS, OL… in roughly that order. I had an idea of how to get something for Santana… Sign em, give him a larger than normal signing bonus and get him on a very cap friendly/cheap contract for 2 years and try to trade him for a 2nd or 3rd

but the problem is double talk.

We are told to be patient with a transistion to a new Defence where none of our best players (other than Landry) Fit, and then we go and waste multiple draft picks trading for McNabb and Brown. You talk about riding the youth, but most FA/Waiver Wire type players we bought in last year were not young kids but were retreads from other teams.

If they were actually doing what you suggest, accepting there willbe short term pain, trading players for picks, instead of picks for players, and grooming the next generation of Redskins, I could get on board with the transistion to the 3-4, but when you trade for a 30 year old tackle, sign a 30 yr old guard in Hicks and sign a 33+ yr old QB in McNAbb at the expense of multiple picks, then come out with a slogan that the Future is Now, then I struggle to see the intellectual consistency in that approach, if you are going to do all that, if you really beleive the future is now, then you stick with the Defence that best fits your CURRENT players skill set.

then you won’t be able to make a team.

yeah, a big fat lazy DT seeking a payday – WHAT COULD GO WRONG!???

All the other "character" junk is bullsh*t though.

he’s just following orders

From what I have read they got together last year and jointly decided to work together next (this) year and install a 3-4. Now you might be right, I dont know for sure, but I really think this 3-4 obsession is a joint decision.

My theory has been, and this is completely without any basis in research, it is purely a hunch, I think Shanny thought in 09 that it would be Jerry Jones who would hire him in Dallas, saw their Defence, saw the personell fit the 3-4 and hooked up with Haslett to install his version of the 3-4 in Dallas, then when Wade and Dallas won that Playoff game, he was left with the Skins as his job, and was so committed to the 3-4 on a mental level, that he could not bring himself to change his view after committing so much time to studying the 3-4 in his down year.

Again I have literally ZERO proof of this, not one story has made me think this way, its just a stupid theory I have.

I just think that 2 of our 3 best players on Defence are Fletcher and B-Rak and they are both prototypical 4-3 defenders, Fletcher is too small for the 3-4 ILB spot and B-Rak is better as a 4-3 End with his hand in the dirt. So why not go to the system that best suits your players rather than squeezing the players into a system that doesnt fit.

Andre Carter is the main casualty of the 3-4 obsession, 12 sacks one year, about to be cut the next. And who knows what happens with Haynesworth if he doesnt have the 3-4 as an excuse to fail. So many problems for such a small potential improvement.