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updated from his agent:

@RickSmith1956: Proud to announce that Tony Pashos @BigGreek79 has signed with the Washington Redskins #redskins

Good move for the Redskins who have a need at the position and if they can draft someone to come in and compete, I think we're in good shape.

Sounds like insurance in case Polumbus leaves town. A backup at best (or so I'd hope).

Irn-Bru wrote:Sounds like insurance in case Polumbus leaves town. A backup at best (or so I'd hope).

Damn right. He appears to be the new "guy we don't ever want to see on the field" to replace the old one. We desperately need to find that guy that we we DO want to see on the field.

Did any of that make sense?

BTTT

Don't be surprised if it's an underwhelming solution at OT for this season, like having Pashos, Polumbus, Hurt, Black and Compton fight it out for the starting spot.

At the end of the day, what cost us games last season is mostly linked to our secondary, and realistically we'll only gain maybe two players from this draft that can step in straight away and contribute. One of them has to be a Safety, the other hopefully a CB.

The cap hit means it's very tough to bring in top quality at ALL the key positions of need. Fletcher and Jackson coming back means we don't have to recruit a LB urgently, Carricker's restructure is a big bonus too, but we may need a TE depending on what happens with Davis. Hopefully Moss restructures (although that's difficult at his age) or we'll need a WR, and Shanny will bring in a RB with a low round pick as is his way, as with Helu banged up Morris needs a backup.

There's a chance that we'll just have to make-do at OT for this year...

Pashos is an excellent signing given our situation. We jumped in and signed him up quick to a low cost deal. He was a starter in Cleveland before getting hurt and now he's a reliable backup with experience starting who's got zone blocking experience. I'd love to get Ryan Harris as a starter with Pashos as the main backup. That would give us a cheap, effective RT situation that was a mess last year.

I get that we can use an upgrade at RT, but is the Polumbus hate a bit blown out of proportion?

I mean, didn't Alfred set the single season rushing record? Didn't RGIII win ROTY? Didn't we have a top 5 offense? You don't do those things with a horrific RT... Granted his play was adequate, but people speak of him as if we finished at the bottom of the NFC EAST with the 28th ranked offense. lol

I actually thought that Polumbus had a good year last season. I hope we bring him back and based on the comments from the other linemen on the team, they do too.

Irn-Bru wrote:Sounds like insurance in case Polumbus leaves town. A backup at best (or so I'd hope).

More like Jordan Black's replacement

frankcal20 wrote:I actually thought that Polumbus had a good year last season. I hope we bring him back and based on the comments from the other linemen on the team, they do too.

Yeah, that's my point.

If we wait another year to address RT it's not the end of the world. The offense should still function well enough to win games.

If we wait another year to adress the secondary then we aint winning sh1t!!!

So I for one would not be too upset if we focused on S, CB, TE (depending on what Davis does), RB (depending on Helu's fitness), before RT.

In terms of winning games those other positions should be our priority, we've proved we can win with Polumbus and Hurt at RT.

Chris Luva Luva wrote:I get that we can use an upgrade at RT, but is the Polumbus hate a bit blown out of proportion?

I mean, didn't Alfred set the single season rushing record? Didn't RGIII win ROTY? Didn't we have a top 5 offense? You don't do those things with a horrific RT... Granted his play was adequate, but people speak of him as if we finished at the bottom of the NFC EAST with the 28th ranked offense. lol

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SouthLondonRedskin wrote:If we wait another year to adress the secondary then we aint winning ...

Why not? We won 10 games with that crew last year.

Deadskins wrote:

SouthLondonRedskin wrote:If we wait another year to adress the secondary then we aint winning ...

Why not? We won 10 games with that crew last year.

I'd be surprised if the defense is not better than last year with both the return of our injured players and adding some new players

like the man said - our pass defense was horrid and you have to think that is going to be addressed here in the next few months ... somehow, someway

I see us winning the NFC East again

Good for competition ... that's about it.

SkinsJock wrote:

Deadskins wrote:

SouthLondonRedskin wrote:If we wait another year to adress the secondary then we aint winning ...

Why not? We won 10 games with that crew last year.

I'd be surprised if the defense is not better than last year with both the return of our injured players and adding some new players

like the man said - our pass defense was horrid and you have to think that is going to be addressed here in the next few months ... somehow, someway

I see us winning the NFC East again

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Deadskins wrote:

SouthLondonRedskin wrote:If we wait another year to adress the secondary then we aint winning ...

Why not? We won 10 games with that crew last year.

A tougher schedule, people working out ways to shut down RGIII, that sort of thing.

If we rely on outscoring our opponents rather than stopping them from scoring also then it'll catch up with us at some point.

We have a good offense, lots of people will have been studying it and looking at ways of stopping it next season.

It'd be really helpful to them if the D could stop the big play and limit teams to under 400 yards passing...

Chris Luva Luva wrote:I get that we can use an upgrade at RT, but is the Polumbus hate a bit blown out of proportion?

I mean, didn't Alfred set the single season rushing record? Didn't RGIII win ROTY? Didn't we have a top 5 offense? You don't do those things with a horrific RT... Granted his play was adequate, but people speak of him as if we finished at the bottom of the NFC EAST with the 28th ranked offense. lol

I think our offensive line was protected a lot by RG3 and the scheme we ran. While you can certainly point to Morris's fantastic rushing season, a lot of that was done on his own (he was top 5 in broken tackles). Not so sure that it was due mostly to our offensive line; look at short yardage, where the offensive line matters alot...we could could absolutely not block short yardage. Football Outsiders calls this "power rank", where we ranked 24th. Regardless, when you break down run average by where it went, last year our runs off RT were ranked 28th with an average of 3.36 yards per carry.

Also, in pass protection, we ranked 23rd by adjusted sack rate.

We clearly have room to improve there, and of all the players on the line, Polumbus was the worst of our starters. Could we survive another season with him? Sure. But if there are alternatives...why not look for them?

1niksder wrote:

Irn-Bru wrote:Sounds like insurance in case Polumbus leaves town. A backup at best (or so I'd hope).

More like Jordan Black's replacement

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