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Akh’s Thoughts: Offseason tracks
With the impending uncapped season and based on Bruce Allen’s comments to the Washington Post, it appears that barring some last minute change of mind, the skins are going to purge the roster of a lot of their big contracts to effect a change of culture at Redskins Park. With the ability to purge vets and sign basically whomever he wants, this gives the skins great flexibility to bring in more specialized veterans for some roles to team with younger players still developing. And with the union saying publicly that if the cap goes away, its never coming back, expect three things:
1-A lot of trading, especially of bigger contract players
2-A general purging of inflated deals
3-Then a run on talented players cut or unrestricted free agents.
My guess at what Shanahan is going to do in terms of rebuilding the roster might be more conceptual than factual, while they might not trade Campbell to Buffalo, they probably are going to deal him to any number of teams who pick in the first half of the draft for roughly a 2nd round pick(and so on). However, I do think that there are some players that look like obvious targets for Shanahan to go after and we’ll see if they’re available to him. If McDaniels is serious about purging the Shanny Olinemen, we’re obviously their first stop in free agency. Any 3-4 rush LB vet would have his agent call the skins to be teamed with Orakpo on the edge. And so on. Obviously Shanahan has 3 areas on the team that he has to improve dramatically: Qb, Oline and defensive back 7 and fortunately he has the resources in money/draft picks to get that done.
Shanahan Track(assuming no cap):
Cuts:
Derrick Dockery, DeAngelo Hall, Antwaan Randle El, Todd Collins, Ladell Betts, Mike Sellers, Cornelius Griffin, Renaldo Wynn, Fred Smoot, Randy Thomas
Trades:
Andre Carter to the Rams for Chris Long.
Santana Moss to Bengals for a 3rd round pick.
LaRon Landry to the Saints for the rights to Jermon Bushrod(who gets a 4 year, 20 million dollar deal) and a 3rd round pick
RFA rights to Jason Campbell to Buffalo for their 2nd round pick.
RFA rights to Carlos Rogers to Detroit for a 3rd round pick.
RFA rights to Rocky McIntosh to Denver for the RFA rights to Chris Kuper(he gets a 4 year, 17 million dollar deal).
FA signings:
Ben Hamilton to a 4 year, 17 million dollar deal
Levi Jones to a 2 year, 6 million dollar deal
Jon Kitna to a 2 year, 7 million dollar deal
Matt Prater to a 3 year, 6 million dollar deal
Peyton Hillis to a 1 year, 2 million dollar deal
Kirk Morrison to a 4 year, 24 million dollar deal
Mike McKenzie to a 2 year, 4 million dollar deal
Jason Taylor to a 2 year, 8 million dollar deal(side note: I think the Skins will sign a vet with 3-4 rush LB experience, Taylor is the most plausible candidate, but don’t count out Shawne Merriman or Tully Banta-Cain on short deals)
Chester Pitts to a 3 year, 9 million dollar deal
Draft:
#1(4): Sam Bradford Qb Oklahoma
#2(36): Jason Fox OT Miami
#2(41): Corey Wooten DL Northwestern
#3(67): Kyle Wilson CB Boise State
#3(85): Trevard Lindley CB Kentucky
#3(95): Myron Rolle FS FSU
#4(106): Stafon Johnson RB USC
#5(144): Shawn Lauvao OG Arizona State
#7(214): Joel Nitchman OC Michigan State
Starting Lineup:
X WR: Devin Thomas
Y WR: Malcolm Kelly
TE: Chris Cooley
LT: Jermon Bushrod/Jason Fox
LG: Ben Hamilton
OC: Kory Lichtensteiger/Hickman
RG: Chris Kuper
RT: Jason Fox/Bushrod
QB: Jon Kitna/Bradford
FB: Fred Davis/Peyton Hillis
RB: Clinton Portis
Elephant: Brian Orakpo
DE: Chris Long
NT: Albert Haynesworth
DE: Corey Wooten/Jeremy Jarmon
OLB: Jason Taylor
ILB: London Fletcher
ILB: Kirk Morrison
CB: Mike McKenzie/Wilson
CB: Lindley/Barnes/Tyron
FS: Myron Rolle
SS: Chris Horton
P: Hunter Smith
K: Matt Prater
KR: Marko Mitchell/Rock
PR: See above
What I like about this track: A lot of young talent, good defensive flexibility, smart defensive players and 4 offensive line starters under the age of 30
What I don’t like about this track: overly dependant on 4 players: Cooley, Long, Wooten and Mike McKenzie.They need Cooley to move the passing game until Bradford clicks with Kelly/Thomas. Long and Wooten will need to eat up the OTs. McKenzie has to hold down the CB spot until Lindley/Barnes are ready.
My track(assuming no cap):
Cuts: Dockery, Hall, Randle El, Collins, Smoot, Daniels, Randy Thomas, Wynn, Sellers, Griffin, Betts
Trades:
Andre Carter, Santana Moss and Jason Campbell to St Louis for their 2nd round pick, Danny Amendola and Chris Long
RFA rights to Carlos Rogers to Seattle for a 3rd round pick
RFA rights to Rocky McIntosh to Denver for RFA rights to Chris Kuper(4 year, 16 million dollar deal)
LaRon Landry to Green Bay for the RFA right to Nick Collins and a 3rd round pick(Collins gets a 4 year, 18 million dollar deal)
Seattle’s 3rd round pick to Indy for Tony Ugoh(who gets a 3 year extension at 4.5 million a year)
Signings:
Matt Prater to a 2 year, 6 million dollar deal
Dunta Robinson to a 4 years, 21 million deal
Ryan Pickett to a 3 year, 15 million dollar deal
Ben Hamilton to a 4 year, 17 million dollar deal
Chad Pennington to a 3 year, 9 million dollar deal
Angelo Crowell to a 1 year, 4 million dollar deal
John Kuhn to a 2 year, 4 million dollar deal
Marlin Jackson to a 5 year, 17 million dollar deal
Adalius Thomas to a 2 year, 5.5 million dollar deal
Draft:
1st rounder(#4): Sam Bradford Qb Oklahoma
2nd rounder(from St Louis–#33): Charles Brown OT USC
2nd rounder(#36): Brandon Spikes LB Florida
3rd rounder(#83): Akwasi Owusu-Ansah CB Indiana of PA
4th rounder(#116): Jeff Byers OG USC
5th rounder(#156): Jason Worilds 3-4 OLB Va Tech
7th rounder(#225): Andre Dixon RB U-Conn
Starting Lineup:
X WR: Devin Thomas
Y WR: Malcolm Kelly
TE: Chris Cooley
LT: Charles Brown
LG: Ben Hamilton
OC: Kory Lichtensteiger
RG: Chris Kuper
RT: Tony Ugoh
QB: Chad Pennington/Bradford
FB: John Kuhn
RB: Clinton Portis
Elephant: Brian Orakpo
DE: Chris Long
NT: Ryan Pickett
DE: Albert Haynesworth
OLB: Angelo Crowell/Jason Worilds
ILB: London Fletcher
ILB: Brandon Spikes
CB: Dunta Robinson
CB: Marlin Jackson
FS: Nick Collins
SS: Chris Horton
P: Hunter Smith
K: Matt Prater
KR: Danny Amendola
PR: Danny Amendola
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