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PulpExposure wrote:

VetSkinsFan wrote:

yupchagee wrote:

VetSkinsFan wrote:One thing I havent' seen noted yet is that Taylor is RDE, weak side. He's going to play LDE for us. He will not be as effective here. I'm not really cool with this move, but I do realize that we have to do something...

I agree. He lacks the size & strength to play LDE every down, just like Carter.

Taylor
6-6 Weight: 255 Age: 33

Carter
6-4 Weight: 252 Age: 29

Last year, the Giants lined up with Osi Umenyiora and Strahan as their two DE's.

Umenyiora:

6-3 261

Strahan

6-5 Weight: 255

They did okay, didn't they? Unless you think those 9 extra pounds was a huge difference maker.

We do need to draft DE talent, badly, but...by the time we picked in the 2nd round, there was only Calais Campbell on the board, whom SkinsCanez thought was a total project player. I'm not sure where the FO could have gone to get players...unless they drafted Merling with their first round, and then...wouldn't have gotten the WRs we desperately needed in the 2nd round.

Phillip Daniels wrote:
"I am not going anywhere," he told reporters on Monday afternoon at Redskins Park. "I am not going to be done. I am still going to play. I am going to rehab hard and come back."

"Hopefully I get another opportunity to finish my career on a high note and not end it this way," he said. "That is the one thing I thought about. Do I want my career to end this way? I really don't.

"But if it does end this way, I have had a great career and I have done a lot of good things."

Irn-Bru wrote:Daniels might think he'll be back, but I'd be willing to bet money he won't be. Renaldo Wynn and Joe Salave'a were in the 'best shape of their lives' last year before we cut them. There's no reason to keep Daniels around at this point, and the Redskins will clearly be looking to build with youth over the next few years.

I bet they keep him around on IR so he can collect his paycheck and work out with the team, but don't look for him to be in the mix at this time next year.

Irn-Bru wrote:In the old days, Lombardi and Daniels would have hit the golf course on a mild November day, and after playing 18 holes and having 'the talk' Daniels would announce his retirement to the press. . .