First & 10....Training Camp & Bailey

jporterweb · #1 08-21-2003, 09:41 AM

I thought this was very pertinent to our Champ Bailey situation

http://espn.go.com/nfl/columns/clayt...n/1493179.html

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5. The cornerback situation around the NFL is scary. Consider that there was only one starter available in free agency -- Dré Bly -- who had 16 games of starting experience last season. Teams paid good money to take other teams' third and fourth best cornerbacks to move them into starting job. Other teams are going with rookies. The Chargers may have done the best job of restocking their secondary, but they ended up with three top young corners -- Quentin Jammer, Drayton Florence and Sammy Davis -- and only one experienced safety, Kwamie Lassiter. There will be growing pains -- particularly if the Chargers can't mount a pass rush -- but this should be a pretty good unit by the end of the season. The Rams are a little scary starting Travis Fisher and Jerametrius Butler and being backed up by rookies. The Dolphins, Eagles, Cowboys and Seahawks have some of the deeper cornerback units I've seen. Still, most teams aren't deep at corner and that should lead to a lot of scoring this season.

PennSkinsFan · #2 08-21-2003, 09:46 AM

No one doubts that, but we also have to look at the impact of the 2003 off-season. All is well for now, but payment has to be made later.

Skinzaholic · #3 08-21-2003, 01:01 PM

Funny how they didn't even mention our corners in that... I thinkthey are pretty good..

TexSkin · #4 08-21-2003, 01:04 PM

they are good but we are not deep at CB unfort

Patrick · #5 08-21-2003, 01:13 PM

We might not be deep but I would've had thought we'd be worth a memtion. Odd!

jporterweb · #6 08-21-2003, 01:23 PM

Guys, we're the Redskins, we get no respect

TexSkin · #7 08-21-2003, 03:02 PM

the Rodney Dangerfield of the NFL

RichardBradley · #8 08-21-2003, 03:36 PM

You earn respect on the field and this is something this team hasen't done yet

Shabba · #9 08-21-2003, 03:55 PM

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Originally posted by RichardBradley
You earn respect on the field and this is something this team hasen't done yet

That ain't nothin but the truth. We don't need to be mentioned in anything until we earn it.
This no respect thing does not cut it. You have to earn respect and I believe in time, we will.

JoeDaSchmoe · #10 08-21-2003, 06:55 PM

Not deep? I'd say Bailey, Smoot, Bauman, Molden, Terrell is pretty deep.

rskinsfan10 · #11 08-21-2003, 07:59 PM

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Originally posted by Shabba
That ain't nothin but the truth. We don't need to be mentioned in anything until we earn it.
This no respect thing does not cut it. You have to earn respect and I believe in time, we will.

I totally disagree with this.

I don't care if we go 0-16, if you have players that do their jobs day in and day out and are clearly among the elite of the league, they should get their props.

This is clearly media bias simply because they can and will get away with this (snubbing our players). We can make the playoffs this year, and you will still have the Snyder Disdain that runs wild accross this country and negative things will be said. 1999 wasn't that long ago.

No one started talking nicely about Art Modell after the Ravens won the SB, and it will never change here when we finally put the pieces together. The Cookes were never attacked like Snyder is, although look at the teams record post Gibbs. What did they do after '91? NOTHING. Yet, can anyone say that they can recall them being ridiculed on the national stage every waking moment? I know that I don't remember it happening.

The fact is, the media loves having a target, and sadly it's our boy that has been scoped out to be said target. I say get used to it regardless of the success to follow on the field.