Landon Collins

[Oldcolt]

With all the free agents and available draft picks we will be fine at safety.

[FatDT]

Collins is great but those are bonkerkong numbers. The Redskins' stupidity is so bad it actually hurts other teams.

[Chaka]

Originally Posted by FatDT

Collins is great but those are bonkerkong numbers. The Redskins' stupidity is so bad it actually hurts other teams.

I look at it this way: its a strategy game, and if you can get your opponent to overspend on a player, it serves to reduce their ability to do other things, and in the end it actually plays to the benefit of the teams who spend more wisely. Your opponent eventually collapses under the weight of all of the bad contracts they enter into. I only regret that it wasn't JAX, HOU or TEN that signed him at these numbers.

[FatDT]

Originally Posted by Chaka

I look at it this way: its a strategy game, and if you can get your opponent to overspend on a player, it serves to reduce their ability to do other things, and in the end it actually plays to the benefit of the teams who spend more wisely. Your opponent eventually collapses under the weight of all of the bad contracts they enter into.

That might be true of an actual threatening team but the Redskins put themselves into irrelevant obscurity years ago. Spending money frivolously is all Snyder is good at.

[Chaka]

Originally Posted by FatDT

That might be true of an actual threatening team but the Redskins put themselves into irrelevant obscurity years ago. Spending money frivolously is all Snyder is good at.

Yep - fair point.

[Chaka]

Just mentioned this in the free agency thread, but its interesting to note that all of the signings thus far have been by non-playoff teams. Perhaps they tend to be the teams with more cap space, but I think it also says something that the "smart" teams have remained on the sidelines to this point.

[VeveJones007]

Originally Posted by Chaka

Just mentioned this in the free agency thread, but its interesting to note that all of the signings thus far have been by non-playoff teams. Perhaps they tend to be the teams with more cap space, but I think it also says something that the "smart" teams have remained on the sidelines to this point.

When you can't win during the season, you try to win during the offseason to increase your job security.

[Pez]

Originally Posted by VeveJones007

When you can't win during the season, you try to win during the offseason to increase your job security.

Probably a great deal of truth to that... "see, I'm fixing it... please don't fire me"

[rcubed]

yeah those numbers are a bit bonkers. i kinda assumed we would not spend the money on collins but was hoping his deal would not drive up the prices on other safeties. guess we will see...

[albany ed]

If a safety with weak pass coverage skills can get this kind of money, I think Bell may get a ton from the Jets.