{"id":5543,"date":"2012-12-21T16:02:37","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T20:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehogs.net\/blogs\/?p=5543"},"modified":"2016-12-29T05:38:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T09:38:00","slug":"carlos-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-hogs.net\/blogs\/2012\/12\/21\/carlos-speaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Speaks&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, Carlos Rogers, in post-game mode, apparently had some comments\u00a0documented by\u00a0<a title=\"Barry Svrluga\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/redskins\/giants-vs-49ers-carlos-rogers-discovers-there-is-life-after-the-redskins\/2012\/01\/20\/gIQAkXnnDQ_story.html\">Barry Svrluga<\/a>.\u00a0 <!--more-->As one can anticipate, there is a veiled bitterness, and suggestions of other problems in the locker room&#8230; While the author goes on to take some cheap shots of his own (listing a few of the uncountable Redskins who have gone on to have success elsewhere&#8230; all while being completely bereft of context), we should focus on Carlos&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the bottom line on Carlos, who is clearly of the opinion that he was not adequately valued by the Redskins.\u00a0 Had he held on to 2\/3 of the passes that were in his hands&#8230; and dropped, he would be well on his way to a HOF career, and would have commanded top dollar and a primo contract.\u00a0 His coverage skills and physicality were NEVER an issue&#8230; but he <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">could not<\/span> dictate the flow of games, because <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">no one feared him as a CB<\/span>.\u00a0 To make offenses respect you, a cornerback MUST do real damage&#8230; that means interceptions.\u00a0\u00a0 There is a reason that he spent a year patrolling the &#8216;9ers defensive backfield as a bargain&#8230; and it&#8217;s on HIM, not the &#8216;skins.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, this deficiency was fully on HIM&#8230; as, apparently,\u00a0all that was required to correct the problem was for him to\u00a0pocket his ego, get his\u00a0vision checked, and to put a couple of plastic film discs on his eyes. As other players on the Redskins have noted that the team had long encouraged him to have his eyesight evaluated, and corrected if necessary, it looks to me as though this was either pure ego&#8230; or oppositional defiance&#8230; or both. Either way, it&#8217;s hard to lay that on the skins. Carlos thought his level of play warranted a top paycheck&#8230; but, his level of play said otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>So, he goes to another team, gets his vision corrected, and becomes a dominant corner&#8230; good for him&#8230; All that does is prove that he wasted all those years in DC&#8230; HE wasted them&#8230; not the team.<\/p>\n<p>Get over yourself, Carlos&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course, he notes that there are other players who are disatisfied with their lot with the team&#8230; we could, of course, take a guess&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Grant Paulsen suggests that Laron Landry is one of those players.\u00a0 Fine.\u00a0 His career has not been that much different from Rogers&#8217;.\u00a0 Top ten pick&#8230; grossly under performed relative to his clear level of talent.\u00a0 The\u00a0main difference is, he did spend one season being horribly misused by Greg Blache&#8230; Landry is NOT a FS.\u00a0 That&#8217;s cool, and all, but what about the other years?\u00a0 He clearly has the capacity to terrorize offenses, and has shown glimmers&#8230; he was on his way to a Defensive Player of the Year type of season in 2010, until he hurt his achilles&#8230; but, what else???<\/p>\n<p>In fairness,\u00a0Laron has made an effort&#8230; and was beginning to make a difference until he got hurt.\u00a0 The team will make an honest effort to resign him&#8230; but will he do what he needs to correct his achilles injury?\u00a0 He hasn&#8217;t yet.\u00a0 How much do you invest in a player with a damaged achilles, who won&#8217;t get it repaired???\u00a0 This is an injury that does not respond well to conservative measures&#8230; as we discovered this past season, when he attempted to play through it.\u00a0\u00a0 But, that effort&#8230; makes me want him to be re-signed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Carlos?\u00a0 It was time to go&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>HTTR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, Carlos Rogers, in post-game mode, apparently had some comments\u00a0documented 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