HH Community GM: Defensive End

Working with what we have and the addition of Franklin on our defensive front I know we aren’t scaring everyone but it’ll work for this year. Hopefully we’ll see some development and progress from our younger guys like Jarmon, Jenkins, and Nield.

Why? Combination of price / Age / and upside.

My strategy for the team this year would be to bring in everyone possible, UFA’s FA’s Draft picks(good start), dudes off the street, cfl, ufl, and especially LFL.

Crank up the competition and regardless of pay, play the best, bench the rest.

Forget the old guys, we need to bring along the young guys….I would like to see our currents stay on, along with a street agent to work on as a project. Carriker will lock one side up, and hopefully Jarmon can steal big Phil’s spot. Would be nice to see JJ get some work if he doesnt slide inside

I love the fact that he has experience, still young and affordable. Not only that, but we take him from a divisional rival (you know he would be pumped up on Dallas week!)

Cullen Jenkins would be great, but not at the number of years.

Players Signed
Ryan Harris, RT: 6 Years, $5 Million
Jonathan Joseph, CB: 6 Years, $12 Million
Aubrayo Franklin, NT: 4 Years, $8 Million
Davin Joseph, G, 6 years, $7 Million
Santana Moss, WR, 3 years, $5.5 Million
Rex Grossman, QB, 2 years, $4 Million
SOON to be Jenkin, DE, 5 years, 8. 5 Million

Do we really wanna spend 8.5 million a year for 5 years on a 30 year old player? Vinny is somewhere smiling right now looking at this.

Why? He’s the youngest one there, he’s relatively cheap and he’s not a bad player.

All you people picking Jenkins are out of your minds.

My first mind wanted Spears, I am not too familiar with Branch but from what I do know seems OK. Tempted to say no-one, but I think taking a look at more guy for the rotation might be a good idea.

I’m not impressed that any of the guys listed will be a big enough impact to start them over young talent we need to develop from our own guys.

I’d rather use that money to pay some of the guys who would have been FAs next year, like Landry and Sleepy. We can be good this year, but we’re not making the playoffs. 2012, we might… so lets get the kids some experience to get them ready.

yet when given a simple exercise like this, revert to the old way we used to do business. In most instances, people picked the older, most expensive FA to become Redskins. I just don’t get the mentality of the fans. People bash Vinny, and his ways of attempting to put together a team for years. He’s gone, and new, more competent regime has taken over, yet people want the same as if Vinny were still running the show.

that we have some good young defensive talent on this team. Carriker was a 1st round draft pick we got for a Steal! He was misused in St Louis, but is finally in a position he’s comfortable playing, and it showed last year. Jarmon, was a 3rd round pick in the supplemental draft, which likely means he would have been a late 1st to 2nd round pick the following year had his performance remained the same. He’s close to 300lbs, and has a year to absorb the position change. Jenkins was a 2nd round pick and an ideal fit as a DE in the 3-4. We still have a guy like Holliday for back-up, and who knows what will happen with Haynesworth. Why bring in another big name, just to stunt the development of our young players?

Everyone who did NOT vote for jenkings all vote for the same option and we can win this thing!!!