Redskins Position Group Breakdown: Running Backs
May 2, 2018
by Jamual Forrest
Well, here we are again. The Washington Redskins position group breakdown is our weekly position group discussion overlooking the state of each group on the team leading into the Redskins training camp in August. This year we start with the Redskins’ running back group. The 2017 crop of running backs did not pan out well in the grand scheme of things. Jay Gruden loves the physicality of a running back; hence, the decision to draft Samaje Perine, a 236-pound running back who has decent speed. Perine was one of the strongest running backs of the 2017 NFL Draft, if not the strongest. Perine, who was also known for his excellent ball security in college, had issues his rookie season protecting the football. The best running back for the Redskins in 2017 was their scat-back/third-down running back Chris Thompson. Thompson, who was on pace to lead the league in yards per touch, was lost for the remainder of the season following a week 11 loss to the New Orleans Saints. Outside of the two most featured backs of 2017, Robert Kelley, Kapri Bibbs, and Byron Marshall all had brief stints with the team leaving mixed reviews. Heading into the 2018 season should be a different story, as the top is settled, but the depth is where the competition lies.
As it stands right now, 2018 Second-round draft pick Derrius Guice is the Redskins’ designated two-down running back. Guice provides the explosiveness, power, and vision to excel at a position that needs to not only compliment the offensive line but help the offensive line when the blocking is not so stable. Guice and Thompson will headline the crop of running backs Washington will feature this upcoming season. Behind those two backs, there is a need to fill out the depth chart with competency and consistency.
Robert Kelley broke onto the season in 2016 as an undrafted free agent. He tallied 704 yards on an average 4.2 yards per carry. His vision was above average, but his ability to shake defenders and always fall forward was attractive to coaches as well as the needs of the team. He was a pretty good back. 2017 was a different season though, as Kelley was asked to get prepared to carry the load as a running back and his body did not hold up. Along with injuries, the abilities that made him stand out as a back in 2016 diminished in 2017, and he finished the season with only seven games played. He will undoubtedly be fighting for a roster spot when training camp starts.
Kapri Bibbs, LeShun Daniels, and Byron Marshall had brief stints on the field in 2017. Featured as third-down backs in the absence of Chris Thompson, both Bibbs and Marshall showed the ability to catch the ball and make plays in the open field. However, Marshall’s season ended as early as it began when he suffered a season-ending injury in practice. Bibbs was the most impressive of the replacement backs of 2017, making him an early candidate to fill out the roster for the Redskins as the fourth running back.
Enter the wild card, Keith Marshall. Keith Marshall was a seventh-round draft pick in 2016 who missed all of the last two seasons due to lower body injuries. The speed-demon out of Georgia will be a low-priority due to how his last two seasons turned out, but Marshall is only 24. Marshall has at the very least two years left on his rookie contract. He is young enough to recover from his two injury-riddled seasons and impress the coaching staff enough to drop the other three running backs from consideration. It is a long shot given where the team has come since 2016, but it will be on Marshall to stay healthy and force the staff’s hand as he produces on the field. Look for Marshall to be in the mix come training camp and pre-season this year.
Time to move along – new post: http://www.thehogsty.com/2018/05/02/roster-moves-undrafted-free-agent-signings/
Karma
https://twitter.com/AwardsDarwin/status/991785507620380673
https://twitter.com/TheHogSty/status/991795206130454528
This IS ugly. What’s unclear is whether the Redskins brass promoted this or was this something that was agreed upon between cheeleader director and rich ticket holders.
This thoroughly upsets me
Why was I not invited?
I respect all cheerleaders
Redskins just posted 13 UDFA signings
http://www.redskins.com/news/article-1/Redskins-Sign-13-College-Free-Agents/9831e874-4e61-47da-a955-4f4923caf97d
Quin Blanding S 6-2 207 Virginia
Martez Carter RB 5-7 193 Grambling State
Simmie Cobbs Jr. WR 6-3 220 Indiana
Jerod Fernandez LB 6-0 227 N.C. State
Shay Fields WR 5-11 185 Colorado
Matt Flanagan TE 6-6 260 Pittsburgh
Mikah Holder WR 6-0 185 San Diego State
Danny Johnson CB 5-9 181 Southern
Timon Parris T 6-6 312 Stony Brook
De’Mornay Pierson-El WR 5-9 190 Nebraska
Cam Sims WR 6-5 214 Alabama
Ranthony Texada CB 5-10 170 TCU
Elijah Wellman FB 6-2 241 West Virginia
Sean Welsh C 6-3 306 Iowa
BC will be happy we got Welch
“agreed to terms”, thanks for the follow-up.
Sean Welsh went undrafted, eh? Good get, he might develop nicely.
https://twitter.com/Redskins/status/991792421024489472
The Boy Scouts are now just the Scouts . Thoughts ?
Here’s mine . That’s fucked up.
We need to remove gender identification so we can truly be free from the bonds the bar us from being equal with one another
and we want to recruit hot looking girls into the Scouts
I am OUTRAGED!!
So one of Kevin Hart’s friends in his posse is the one who tried to extort money from him after he videoed Kevin and his female friend together
dude is now looking at 4 years in da big house
Posse vetting should be a priority.
I think it’s a bit odd that the team hasn’t announced its UDFAs yet. I’m reasonably sure we had the list this time last year.
Bucs announced theirs on Monday afternoon
Get the WaPo crowd riled up about it, email bombardment. Welcome to the Hogsty, where everything is fair, and balanced.
Kelly posting over on WaPo as kellyinmd
I’m not fucking with Kelly, he’ll come back over. He’ll miss the format.
Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that there are “far more” teams unwilling to pay Bryant the league minimum salary than there are teams that would consider signing Bryant for any contract.
So much for that character reference from Almo
Lol
Jags won’t pick up Dante Fowler’s option
Man, I really thought that guy was gonna be a playah.
he’s gotten better
2015 – IR
2016 – 4 sacks
2017 – 8 sacks
now if he has a 16 sack season in 2019 they are going to feel real dumb
Yeah, that knee injury really set him back.
Man weighing 575 pounds cuts out junk, sheds half his body weight: ‘I wanted to see my kids grow up’
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I was flabbergasted for a moment… thought the headline read “cuts off junk, sheds half his body weight.”
Drunk man breaks into Taco Bell to eat empty Doritos taco shells.
A 22-year-old man confessed to breaking into a Southern California Taco Bell because he was drunk and hungry, police say.
Three hots and a cot
Well, technically, two hots and a bologna sandwich
Stephen Hawking’s last paper just published
According to Hawking’s “no-boundary proposal,” before the Big Bang, when the entire universe was compressed into a single, infinitely small point, there was no directional time as we experience it. Time was a closed, boundary-free thing, like a sphere without edges
Man, he knew where to get some good shit.
ikr
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Or an inversed splat
Still up for grabs
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https://twitter.com/NYT/status/991738385462153217?s=19
1 month with out bad PR. All I ask.
The NYT is fake news. Failing. Sad.
Cheerleaders are the NFL’s #MeToo issue
they do not treat them very nice
Damn sure don’t pay them right.
What are you talking about? We offer them all sorts of opportunities to earn some money on the side.
-BA
I would treat them nice……..
back in the day one of the Bucs cheerleaders was a foreclosure specialist where I worked
she talking about when she first became one, they wanted her to lose like 10-15 pounds
she said she told them the doctor had put 15 pounds of tits on her and she lost that much weight she would like she was dying
she was 5’11” and weighed like 138 pounds and was like a 36DDD
You can set a drink on them bitties
Foreclosure specialist…… I’d love to watch her say that, lol
You know what cracks me up? The super-aggressive dads driving mini-vans; my wife and I call them crazy mini-van drivers. I literally look over at them and laugh.
my wife swears that the Lexus badge is the symbol for a national passive aggressive movement
my contention is that they’re so isolated from the world they’re just not paying attention, so it’s not as much willful as it is incompetence
BMW drivers
Dads in minivans is a thing around here too. Driving that Honda Odyssey like it’s a sports car.
I don’t know if they’re in crisis or deliberately trying to break the thing so they can get into something else.
Some of them will get up and go, handle reasonably well, too. If you’ve got kids in there, though, act like a fucking dad.
I don’t know what it is. And, I don’t want to stereotype here…it’s the moms that I see who get reckless when the kids are on board.
Like the kids are shields from other drivers or something.
I’ve actually cussed my wife for changing lanes without a turn signal when I was following her and my daughter was in the car with her. Seriously flipped out. Turning with no signal, changing lanes with no signal.
Worthy flip out. She does that again, take her chain saw away.
Lol
I had to drive a friends minivan across town for him once, went a round-about way so no one would see me.
LOL
Back in college, my friend was driving us in his mother’s minivan. Some kid cut us off and game us the finger. My friend chased that kid around town for at least 20 minutes, running lights, etc. I hung out the window waiving a baseball bat. You could tell that kid was scared AF. We were never going to do anything to him, but it was fun as hell to scare the shit out of him.
cars and mini-vans are dead
pick-up trucks, SUVs and X-overs are all Americans buy now
The two black men arrested last month for sitting at a Starbucks in Philadelphia without ordering have settled with the city for $1 each and a promise from officials to set up a $200,000 program for young entrepreneurs.
As for Starbucks’s part, the company said it had reached an agreement earlier this week with the men that will include a confidential financial settlement.
Payday
Ahhhh….
those dudes went into that Starbucks with a plan
I’ve been away most of the day and hope this hasn’t already been posted. If it was I apologize. I suppose if there is no football drama this year to report the media will dig up something negative about the redskins from 5 years ago.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/sports/redskins-cheerleaders-nfl.html
k0n goes down.
https://youtu.be/9JrEf3-O2s8
I don’t brake check.
Doooowwwwwwwnnnnnnn
Go on and tailgate. I’ll keep my speed no problems. But you better hurry up and go around before I match the speed of the car that’s just ahead in the lane next to us.
I’ll put you in the wall, son
Bring it punk
k0n, the bumpers/cow-catchers on bc’s F-350 weigh more that your car.
He’s luck I just take it easy these days and don’t hand out free attitude adjustments anymore. 🙂
Now see. You’re all grown up. A family man. Now, put your dick away.
My dick weighs 6,800lbs
Your dick weighs 4,780lbs
I’m in a 4,780 lb vehicle. I’m not worried about a 4,900 lb truck that can’t keep up with me.
Everybody has a plan, until……
Until they get on the road with me.
Riggghhht, cuz you’re a badass……
cuz you’re gonna put me in the wall….
whaaaaaaaaaaatever
(blowing you a kiss)
Fuck sake. You’re blowing kisses. Bucks wanting a dude to bend over…
What the hell is in the water there?
Come on sweetie, don’t be shy
the only reason to really NEED a truck or suv is you you can put a light bar about rear-view-window-height-on-most-other-vehicles on the grill
6 million candle power x 4
Blind his ass. (Half of the lights are pointed backwards)
Mike, I’m sure you’d agree…commercial lasers are the way to go here.
A lot lighter and much more efficient. Bonus…they won’t attract near as many bugs as your mega-jillion candle power rig.
Yeah, bugs at 70mph…
Rubbin is racing
driving a beat up old van slowly in the left lane is just asking to get pulled over and searched
it’s the kind of thing that often precedes the headline
“State Troopers Seize Record Amount of [Insert Name of Drug Here] and Cash In Traffic Stop on [insert interstate number here]”
OR
“State Troopers Seize Van in Traffic Stop Used In Human Trafficking”
And arrested suspect [insert jackass’s name here]
French President Macron calls Australian leader’s wife ‘delicious’
Napoleon lV?
steeeyupid Freyonchicans!
Lol ???
Bleacher Report about the redskins cheerleaders is not good
they’re ugly and fat?
fat, drunk and stupid is no way to be a cheerleader, son
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/sports/redskins-cheerleaders-nfl.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes
Pretty fucked up
Several of them got pimped out as escorts to sponsors at a photo shoot in Costa Rico.
I’m hoping BA did the pimping, and gets shown the door.
Well, it said “she” and “director” so I’m guessing the Director of the Cheerleading Squad
have we discovered what Bruce was identifying as back in 2013? I mean, don’t presume he OR she until proven otherwise
“Their participation did not involve sex, the cheerleaders said, but they felt as if the arrangement amounted to “pimping us out.” What bothered them was their team director’s demand that they go as sex symbols to please male sponsors, which they did not believe should be a part of their job.”
I understand the problem. Super creepy nowadays, though 30 years ago that was prob an understood expectation. On the flip side, they know they signed up for “cheerleading” right? You’re a sex symbol cheering on war… for male spectators (for the most part).
You say “pimped out”, like that’s a bad thing.
-Fred Garvin
Actual conversation I had at a light with a deputy
Deputy: You really should use your turn signals when changing lanes
Noone: Why, so people can speed up and cut me off?
Deputy: Yeah, good point
Deputy: What’s that smell? Open your trunk.
Noone: Gotta go now. Bye!
gave up the not legal stuff when I changed from black hat job to white hat job and had all the official government clearances in my real name
Had old guy this week in big expensive Benz put on turn signal as he cut me off to get into the right turn lanes
then he proceeded to to drive down the middle of the two turn lanes
when I blew my horn at him he stopped blocking both lanes and put his window down so he could flip me the bird
too bad for him there was a deputy behind me who put on his lights and pulled him over
so I gave the deputy the sign for I think he been drinking
hopefully he got a field sobriety test for being an ass
should have given him the sign for “I think he shoots heroin and has a brick of smack in the fuel tank”
you’ll have to post a diagram of how to make that sign
I’ve gotten to the point where I start to nudge my car over into the lane even before the rear of the car in front is past, it makes it nearly impossible to not let me in if you leave more than a car’s length
I also do 2 “dangerous” things while I drive
I drive with the cruise control on a whole lot, roads, streets, city highways, whatever; I’ve done that forever. It isn’t the cruise that lulls you to sleep, it’s being on cruise for hours at a time without doing much else that does. and it’s not a complicated thing to turn on and off. 100 miles 100 feet. still just one button push. and it keeps me from getting speeding tickets. it does, however infuriate at times: c’mon people we have CARS instead of BIKES because we don’t wanna slow DOWN going UP hill!!!
I drive with both feet. You can glide traffic like a pro… but keep in mind it’s beyond instinct for me since I’ve been doing it for 25 years. Do not try it your first time in heavy traffic.
If you speed up, then look at me when I have on my turn signal, you are a douchebag!
Give them the universal douchebag sign…..
Whoa whoa. This a family oriented web site. No universal douchebag signage allowed.
If you are behind me and I cannot see your license plate you’re getting a brake check
That sounds like something you would do. LOL
I do it, too. Also go very slow if you do that.
Bahstun drivah
on the highway nowadays a turn signal MEANS “hurry up so you can prevent me from changing lanes”.
I crack up at people that think having a turn signal on means it’s okay to cut in front of me.
there’s a difference btwn being cut off and speeding up to prevent someone from getting into “your” lane.
Protect the space in front of you.
That’s what I say.
You got to get over that bad, get behind me. Where there’s no other car anyway.
I’m gonna Jersey Turnpike yo ass. No signal until I’m already cutting you off.
You better punch it. I’m always on the look out for that. I see you coming up the lane next to me and see where you’re headed…I’m gonna get there first.
are you a mean person in real life, or just when driving?
Mean? How is being a safe driver, mean?
I’d have you scared to death at scratching that little smart car.
preventing someone from safely changing into “your” lane by speeding up to prevent it is mean, and dangerous, not safe.
k0n is like that.
Cutting me off…is not safe.
See how that works wif?
kon, if you are speeding up to prevent someone from changing into “your” lane, that person is not cutting you off.
If they are speeding up to get in front of me…they’re cutting me off.
Get the hell behind and go to where it’s empty for God’s sake. That’s the safe maneuver.
i did not say they were speeding up to get in front of you.
Yea. I did.
And I don’t like it. It’s a stupid thing to do. Unsafe and just rude.
In California it’s NEVER empty behind you
Get him, Walter!
I’ll have my signal on the opposite way….
“He must be taking the exit” – k0n
“He must be retarded, driving in the hammer lane with his left blinker on” – k0n
Fact check…
Byron Marshall injured himself during a regular season game.
False?
Our neighborhood HOA is almost nonexistent. You need to be doing something seriously wrong for any action to be taken.
One house underwent a dramatic transformation after a contentious divorce. She left the house, and he turned it into a castle, figuring there was no way she would want to keep it. He was right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-pu1MlpmWQ
LMAO
Word on the street was that he threw some badass Halloween parties.
I’ll bet
Oh man. That is some serious spite.
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WOOT!
I went over to k0n’s house to party last night, he hasn’t called me yet today, must be sleeping in….
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Mofos always trashing the place
Ha!
And look…there it is. Dude’s got a garage full of junk and park his car in it.
We have a crap load of young people at work who use of the TV consists of gaming and streaming shows from Netflix, Amazon or Hulu
they watch little network TV and almost no sports
if they watch sports they to a craft beer bar that has sports
…and those that go the craft beer route have beards.
I’m pretty much the same way because most sports are not on network TV anymore; other than the NFL
Greg, Husqvarna used to be a great saw, not really hip on the new models.
Mine is about five years old
I don’t use it as much as I wish I did but starts with five pulls
They redesigned the case and grip, just not as good, IMO. Still way better than most saws.
Electric will solve that. Release the brake, pull the trigger and get to saw’n.
My wife has a cute little electric chainsaw
Get her the Stihl MSA 200…with the battery back-pack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8VvfTIiijQ
I don’t want her to hurt herself. She’s just cutting saplings and whatnot. I’d like to keep it at that level.
Alright. Get it for yourself. Show it off to all the dudes making 5 pulls on the choke and horking on all that oil burning exhaust.
My saw runs like a tuned 250R, I’m all set
What? I can’t hear you!
if the tree isn’t much bigger than 4″, maybe 6″, you can use a cordless reciprocating saw unless you’re doing a bunch of em. It’s all I have, and if’n it’s too big for that, the neighbors and my house wouldn’t be happy with me trying to cut it down, it would have to be felled in pieces from the top down anyway. and at that point, you’re hiring a crew.
That’s a twig cutter .
14” bar is cutting more than twigs.
btw
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Not much more
k0n got moderated
really, he’s just wound too tightly
If you’re not getting mod’d…you’re doing it wrong
Your Hilldawg Battlehog got destroyed by my Orange Goblin.
713 regulated
Supafly smackdown chokeslam
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I’ll take my blog points in cash money, thanks.
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Will it be a gif or a meme that gets a hamster in hot water at work?
[Insert Debbie Downer meme/gif below]
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What are you trying to do to me? Don’t make me delete it for you.
Sorry mom
SJK
Seriously, get rid of it. We need to be reasonably clean here, media-wise.
I met her at Clydes last year in Leesburg. She was asking for NPI, saying she missed her period for three months in a row……
Yeah, that was mean of Kon to post such a tease. He should post the whole thing.
I tried to tell him .
Taint nuthin but a little underboob.
the problem is before you log-in and turn off media, you have to be super careful about not showing the screen below the log-in. almost had a heart attack a couple of times this morning
Turn off media? Where is that option?
The drop down to the right of your log in
Well, that was pretty simple. Thanks, Kon.
Sometimes, I am so much older than 43.
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What a ragged ass saw
Looks like a husquarvana
He needs his safety glasses
A late model
Good brand of saw
I have a husky
Both saw and dog
Stihl!
have Husky back pack blower . Loud as hell. I wait until my neighbor gets home from work before i fire it up
Lol, I’ve got one of the old 55’s. Run a Stihl 460
Locust is great wood though
He’s still a good boy tho.
Something wrong with people that don’t park in the garage
They park in the garage. They’ve got a Wrangler. 🙂
yes they have too much shit to store in the house
If it’s the garage…it’s time to get rid of it. Or is the plan to wait on that big lotto pay day and buy a bigger house?
On the other hand…self-storage is a huge business.
not as handy and why pay another friggin bill
Then get a frign shed.
Get the shit out of the garage and stop parking on the road!
i park in my driveway ty lol…
That’s better. Still unsightly. But, better than all these mofos that park in the street instead of their garage. Or, driveway.
Anal retentive quack
three cheers for road parkers . Hip hip hooray !!!
Free beer!!!!
Put your shit where it goes.
i pay the bills i’ll park wherever the hell i wish
People gotta live in this neighborhood. Clean your shit up.
bite me, plus my hoa doesn’t allow ‘sheds’
i’d have to build a separate building, matching the brick house and fuck all that.
HOA? And you’re griping about another bill to pay?
it’s minimal but yes, hoa…you wouldn’t be allowed here…lmao
not griping either, just not going to pay another bill
Please. I’m in demand.
But give me the number to the president. Going to see about all this unsightly parking in the driveway nonsense slowing down property appreciation in the neighborhood.
ain’t gonna happen. you see, here in South Carolina, we’re actually allowed to do what we like within reason. we don’t kowtow to the masses..gtfoh plus my Lincoln looks nice in the driveway
Where is this freedom land that you speak of?
South Cack-a-lacky
You got a god damn HOA…and you’re gonna say that?
AHAHAHAHAHAAAAAHAHAHAHAA
Go eat biscuit
You won’t believe it when I tell you but it’s a voluntary $100 a year HOA so stuff your biscuit…i’m watching the carbs, lol
Could be $5 a year…it’s still an HOA. That means rules Mr we can do whatever we want.
Get you some overhead storage racks. Get some totes. Clean out the garage and clear that driveway.
they don’t work that way in my neighborhood..
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! KEEP YO ASS IN THE SUBURBS!
my driveway, my rules…gtfoh
Fahhhhk youuuuu, get off my lawn!
it’s decorations mostly for Thanksgiving, Halloween, and Christmas.
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It’s open to everyone now
Blog dollars up for grabs
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meh
Ironic?
— President Trump plans to hire Emmet T. Flood, the veteran Washington lawyer who represented Bill Clinton during his impeachment, to replace Ty Cobb, the White House lawyer who has taken the lead in dealing with the special counsel investigation, who is retiring, according to two people briefed on the matter.
Not when you consider the Clinton – Trump relationship
http://media1.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2016_36/1702166/160908-bill-clinton-donald-trump-mn-1050_71ea6885a6ec11371b047ce2b1401d4f.nbcnews-ux-2880-1000.jpg
But then there’s this:
Washington (CNN)Less than two hours before he was to debate Hillary Clinton Sunday night, Donald Trump tried to wrest control of the political conversation and shove it toward her husband by live streaming an appearance with three women who have in the past accused former President Bill Clinton of inappropriate sexual behavior.
Campaigns. It happens.
Pretty sure that was unprecedented.
Bills proclivities and the Clinton’s “scandals” are pretty precedented
Rigging the democratic primary was most likely unprecedented as well.
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That’s funny . That made me laugh
Dude
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Get off your knees Kon and bend over.
He’s eyeballing that “thing” in your hand.
Will Compton on draft night
not really, the DNC has telegraphed these things, everyone KNOWS (at least those involved with getting in the race) that is what the Super-delegates are for. so long as they follow what they say they are going to follow, the Parties are not governmental organizations, they are special, special-interest private clubs and should be able to do what they want with regards as to selecting candidates to run for office; so long as every dime for primaries and use of public facilities is paid by the party… and/or consistent with how the localities would treat any entity using such facilities/services.
It would have been one thing if Bill was running, but of course he wasn’t.
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I suppose then, all of Hillaries’ resume related to being First Lady is null and void, and pretty much everything after that point is predicated on her being First Lady (US / Arkansas) so that is all null and void, and therefore, she has no valid experience to hold major office in the U.S. (though obviously, we don’t have any formal bar for “experience” for elected office
Well, she was a U.S. Senator in addition to being First Lady. Which is more qualification than our current Carnival Barker in Chief could muster.
she would never have been US Senator if not for being First Lady, which was my point; so the First Gentleman role seems to be in part fair play; just like Clinton’s brother was a political problem for him at times as well; right or wrong
I kinda disagree with your premise. If she hadn’t played second fiddle to Bill all those years I think she’d have had a big-time political resume of her own.
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It’s clear that the protests hurt NFL ratings somewhat, but it’s not clear to what extent. NFL TV ratings were down about 10%, but TV ratings in general were also down:
1) CBS: 9.925 million, -6%
2) NBC: 9.023 million, -3%
3) ABC: 6.637 million, -9%
4) Fox: 6.213 million, -14%
5) The CW: 1.770 million, -4%
And Nascar has lost about 45% of its audience since 2006.
once you pull the plug so to speak, your first instinct is to grab the Roku [firestick, chromecast, wheatever] remote first, not click over to the digital antenna. And, chances are, at least 1 of the major networks ain’t coming in on a bad weather day. I tried to watch the draft on ABC last Saturday and that was
“well this is…
*errrr, eh… brrrrr*
[Insufficient or No Signal]
“the Browns have really…
*brrrrr wmmmmp errrrrr*
this draft
[Insufficient or No Signal]
and if I won’t drag myself into the attic to secure a Mohu or other digital antenna with some power tools and knowledge about running cable through walls (rather than stick it up as high on the wall that the TV is in); how many millennials are going to? [I realize that isn’t completely fair because if the draft was on ABC, then it would have been on ESPN app for free]
Yep. Digital signal sucks.
I grew up 30 miles from the nearest analog station, and we watched a lot of games where it was 75 degrees and “snowing” (due to bad reception).
Now, 30 years later, I live <3 miles from the farthest digital station, and I often can't get any reception (I'd settle for snowy reception.)
my TV is in a room that is halfway underground, but the Mohu does a pretty good job all things considered. digital is either there or not. on or off. and I haven’t figured out, but it feels like if it’s too windy, too cloudy, too sunny, too much alien invasion, it’s not going to go well.
My brick house does not help at all, I suspect.
Also: It is pretty silly to think it requires collusion for teams not to want to sign guys who may alienate even a small percentage of the fan base.
As players say so often, it is a business. You don’t hire a Walmart greeter who isn’t sure whether or not he’s going to flip the bird to incoming customers. If the dude won’t definitively state, “I will not flip off incoming customers”… you don’t hire him. Simple.
Additionally, if the dude used to work at another store and always flipped people off upon entry, and is well known by the common customers to be the “dude who used to flip people off upon entry” … you likewise do not hire him.
Whether you feel flag kneeling is more bad, less bad or equal to giving costumers the bird upon entry, (or you think it’s a false equivalency) it doesn’t matter.
Owners know that there are fans (my bro-in-law is one) who simply will not watch or support their team any more if they sign those guys. It doesn’t require collusion. Just good business sense.
It’s a seriously weak case. He thinks his talent as a QB should be enough to get organizations to not worry about how much they don’t like him.
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This explains why it took me 6 years to graduate college
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Ted? Really? I suspected you were a freak.
I’ve never been a smoker, but I wouldn’t mind trying some of that
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I agree that the result doesn’t require collusion. OTOH, that doesn’t mean that there wasn’t collusion. And that’s why we have a legal system.
Fair enough, DC. I can completely agree with that statement.
And if the league was stupid enough to issue an edict to all its teams over something that is/should be painfully obvious to all 32 owners (ie don’t hire guys who will make some percentage of your fans stop watching), then the league is a lot dumber than I give it credit for, and they will get just what they deserve.
Otherwise, Kaep and Reid will continue to look as tone-deaf and clueless as they generally have.
I highly doubt that Kaepernick is going to generate any real evidence re collusion. MLB has been busted for collusion a couple of times, so it’s not impossible (NFL never has), but in this case, what’s happened is pretty clear.
I heard them talk about this on Reasonable Doubt probably like 6-8 months ago, and the Attorney (who’s name escapes me*) would not have taken the case if he wasn’t REALLY sure there was some documentation that existed. But, TBF he wasn’t 100% sure.
*Mark Geragos
The attorney will take a high profile case like this as long as it’s being billed hourly and he can make enough of an argument to not get embarrassed.
Owners know that there are fans (my bro-in-law is one) who simply will not watch or support their team any more if they sign those guys. It doesn’t require collusion. Just good business sense.
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I’d estimate that probably half, at least, of the NFL fans I know have stopped watching the NFL entirely as a result of this, including my dad, who’s been a Redskins fan for a very long time. My dad has now become an NHL fan and that fills his sports-watching time.
if that were really true, the very simple solution the NFL would make is to do the anthem before the players came out like they used to; or not at all
I’ve been to exactly 1 event where the national anthem was played that was not a sporting event in the last 15 years. and it isn’t really necessary except at the Olympics where you are rep the country. they should have the State/City Anthems played, and this is after all, a simulation of one city-state going to war with another.
what is Maryland’s Anthem?
The creatively titled “Maryland, My Maryland”
It has 9 verses each one more annoying than the last. And ends
” Huzza! she spurns the Northern scum!
She breathes! she burns! she’ll come! she’ll come!” which just sounds dirty as a Maryland crab whore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland,_My_Maryland
that would be played before our games
maybe just the first verse
usually these old anthems have the more controversial lyrics buried in the later verses
I really don’t understand why they play it before every sporting event, to be honest, although I’m happy they do. If the NFL is going to play the anthem and have the teams out there, then 100% of the players need to stand, period dot the end.
It’s really something that’s not done in most other countries I’m told.
The only interesting thing to me in this particular case is that the S from the 49ers had said he wasn’t planning to kneel during the anthem. Yet we know that in at least his meeting with the Bengals they continued to press him on it.
Eric Reid is a young, decent safety who belongs in the league from a talent perspective, but he’s painted himself into a corner with this. Teams don’t want to risk the backlash if he does it again for a guy who, while good, isn’t exactly Sean Taylor.
it sort of seems irrational to me to boycott the entire NFL for some of the personal beliefs of a few players
and while I understand it feels like they are acting as Agents of the NFL when the jersey is on, I think it is pretty obvious that the NFL doesn’t feel that way. almost sounds like people would rather surf the web, watch internet TV, watch pron, or vids of hot chicks shooting guns while smoking a trash bag of weed.
Personally, I don’t expect my athlete/entertainers to have much to say on the political/social front, and what they do say, I don’t expect to agree with.
It’s refreshing when they are upstanding, respectable guys who can be pointed to as role models. But that’s the exception, not the norm.
I think you’re on to something, Buck
I hope he does better than that half quarter second hold down there.
I feel a “hot girls doing bong rips” marathon coming on
I’m surprised more UDFA Gs haven’t been signed. Have any?
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Not sure if it’s been mentioned, but the Colts released Matt Jones.
https://twitter.com/Pseudo_RGIII/status/991716214408871936
Can’t you just go back through yesterdays 900 comments to find out ?
Will do. Back in 4 hours…
was this the plan, Alex?
Like I’ve got a plan.
I just create chaos and see what happens. I’m basically the shitty blog version of the Joker
Lol
Who leaves a movie with that much popcorn?
Scot is a fraud if he doesn’t pick him up right???
I mean how often does that kind of talent become available?
Scot is a fraud if he doesn’t at least lobby for him.
But Scot is just a consultant.
At least she gained 10-12 yards before going down. Did I just say…
mike5790 • a few seconds ago
you’re forgetting: Alex Smith has to “work” here
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I think that Smith at worst will be the serviceable game manager he’s been in the past. The worst case with Smith is still going to be something just over 1 TD a game, and ending up just over 3000 passing yards.
if he does than in Gruden’s offense,
…
at least they’ll have a Top 5 pick next year to get a QB
Is that intentionally conservative AF?
Guice and company will have 2000 yards combined and 30 TDs to make up for it
I’m basing it on his past stat lines, a guy with that kind of long career, you can kinda project his floor just by looking at what he did in his full seasons that went poorly.
His bad years, that’s what he does.
Records will fall
Even with Andy Reid, who’s as good an offensive mind if not better than Gruden, Smith wasn’t putting up 4,500 yards often.
he didn’t throw it as often as Cousins did under Gruden
I would expect Smith to have about 15% more attempts than he did in KC
Now look at their stats. Attempts/completions….
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/S/SmitAl03.htm
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Jay calls a different game
McVay too
RE: Walsh
Again, don’t want to over-sell it, but he has potential where he could be more than a backup this year. The reason he wasn’t an early Day 3 prospect is mostly (from what I gather, not evaluating his film) that he doesn’t have a long reach and he isn’t ripped up top, he’s built a bit like Roullier. I’m not talking like he’s likely to be a perennial pro-bowl candidate, but that’s different than saying he can’t compete at LG for the Skins this off-season. Unless he didn’t actually sign here.
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Hey Buck, quit scratch’n your butt and get up here.
He flanked you…… don’t look now, he’s standing right behind you.
https://youtu.be/ZqGVU1sW8pg
If fire at his tell, you might have a chance.
Please God yes
https://twitter.com/fishsports/status/991052097415196673
They kinda have to.
What’s he get… vet min?
That would be a fitting end, eh?
They pay him in sandwiches
Long as de barbeque! – McClain
Why don’t they go after Hankins?
-greg
Because he’ll cost more than an opened but unused condom and a half melted ICEE
You’re doing it wrong. I know that sounds impossible to you, but, it’s true.
I’m doing it exactly how it has to be done. This is a long game.
Now, if you don’t mind….
tip toe tip toe tip toe tip toe,
reads like a half-caff decaf pumpkin spice latte
With a corn cob stirrer
Ooooooooooooooo
It has to be his idea. You can’t draw greg a picture.
My apologies, carry on.
Saw first 2019 mock draft from a NFL sports site
they had us drafting at #8 slot and we took a CB
#8 thats like 5-11 or 6-10
Of course it is
Look, we have a hard schedule.
I don’t think we made any move to turn this to a 10-12 win team.
11 – 5, shock the world
For this team to go 11-5 I think we’ed need a bunch of things to break our way.
1. Stay healthy, especially the top guys.
2. Some of the younger talent needs to have a breakout season. If Allen can suddenly be a force who gets 10 sacks, Doctson breaks out for a bunch of TD’s. Guice racks up 1K
That’s only two, but yeah, it can happen.
Eh, Health is more than 1 player. And the 2nd is particularly 3 guys making the jump from prospect to pro.
1. Health
2. The Jump
you’re forgetting: Alex Smith has to “work” here
If we hadn’t had all those injuries last season….we were headed for the Super Bowl. Twice!
I really liked the way the defense looked before Allen got hurt. Now with Allen back and Payne next to him and Settle in the rotation…They could be something to get excited about.
Tough to be negative about the team this early. I will like to see what they can do if they stay reasonably healthy for a season. That being said it is apparent that there is a LOT of tough competition in their division and the NFC as a whole. That and playing the AFC and NFC South won’t be a cakewalk by any means either.
Never too early to be negative about the Washington Franchise.
— The Media
So now when you’re moving in or out on a place, be wary of having your African-Americans friends help out
Black dude moving into new apt on UWS in NYC had six officers respond to a burglary call
seem one of the white neighbors reported a black man braking into an apartment
yes, his own and he was moving stuff into the apartment
Man, Henry Louis Gates can’t catch a break
Outside of the initial report that Sean Welsh was signing with us I see no additional confirmation of that from any source
It would be nice if he does.
Why?
A lot of people liked Welsh’s raw talent at C/G, kinda in that Balding camp of a guy who probably could have been drafted.
Gotcha… no clue who he is
It’s the Big-10 lineman factor.
Everyone likes the corn fed OL.
I usually know the Big 10 pretty well… never heard of this guy
I’m not a big 10 guy, so had to look his stuff up. 48 starts in his college career, played LG/RG/RT. first-team all-Big Ten last year.
By the way… according to this article written 3 days ago Welsh did sign with the Skins:
https://www.landof10.com/iowa/iowa-football-sean-welsh-nfl-draft-2018-washington-redskins
And if he is on the roster, he could be a good backup option for us this year.
To me that looks like the kind of guy who you have as the 7th guy on any roste.r.
Apparently he has some mental health concerns
Perfect!
Watch some film on him, could be something with some coaching.
That’s probably not gonna happen.
That’s fine, then take my word for it, and Alex’s.
If he actually IS on the team then I might waste some time on that… but not now.
Yeah, I’m a curious motherfucker, lol
alex35332 Team Captain • an hour ago
Steve Thomas Team
It’s a real shame about Keith Marshall, because he has talent, but some guys bodies just can’t take pro football.
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Moron refuses to protect himself. -Buck
Had great runs in highschool!
Cries and blocks people when they make fun of him
Makes fun of others
https://youtu.be/8Mi_akUxZI0
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000156300/article/president-obama-to-rg3-protect-yourself-on-field
Obama tells RG to start protecting himself
Violins!
False equivalencies are not your friend….
— Liberals
https://twitter.com/Redskins/status/991694929155026944
“Official” UDFA list
Shay Fields, WR, Colorado
Simmie Cobbs, WR, Indiana
Mikah Holder, WR, San Diego St
De’Mornay Pierson-El, WR, Nebraska
Cam Sims, WR, Alabama
Quin Blanding, S, Virgina
Martez Carter, RB, Grambling
Matt Flanagan, TE, Pittsburgh
Timon Parris, T, Stony Brook
Ranthony Texada, CB, TCU
I guess we are going to corner the market on UDFA WRs
Right, Billy Ray?
To be clear, this isn’t an official list. The Redskins haven’t released a statement yet.
hence the “official” designation, it is from agents announcing their client signed a UDFA deal with us
So Welsh is out?
Again, so Welsh is out?
see below
Ahh, thank you.
No guard?
They planning to wear out the QB’s?
Free-agent safety Eric Reid has filed a collusion grievance, seven weeks to the day after becoming a free agent.
Clear he’s being blackballed.
These guys aren’t being blackballed. There’s no evidence of that. First of all, the safety market was weak this year. More importantly, when you go all-in with a guy who’s turned himself into a public pariah but who’s also only backup QB-quality, its no mystery as to why neither he or you are signed.
Kaepernick and Reid are both reaping what they sowed and deserve little sympathy.
So you’re saying he wasn’t blackballed but he was blackballed? Okay.
You clearly don’t know what “blackballed” and “collusion” means.
He doesn’t know what a lot of things mean
Thinks he knows everything
I believe the confusion is all yours. Hint: they aren’t synonyms.
Once again, you’ve shown that you have no idea what you’re talking about.
Alright, I’ll simplify it for you then. He is being blackballed by teams for his protests. That doesn’t not mean that teams have colluded to blackball him. Get it now?
You’re clueless.
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You’re a champion of civility. God bless you.
I told you Austin and D_C were the same person…
NFL players need to understand that a football game is a privately run entertainment event owned and controlled by privately-held for profit companies, and broadcast by for-profit companies. It is NOT their personal cause platform. If they irritate 50% of the public by trying to use that entertainment event as their platform, there are consequences.
The NFL front office were fools for not telling everyone that all must stand at the beginning of last season.
Blackballing , would mean they conspired together . That’s different than an individual owner deciding what’s best for their team.
Disagree
10 interceptions in five years
He’s okay
Isn’t Kenny Vaccaro still available
He’s a helluva lot better than Vacarro, who ranked dead last among safeties last year.
NFL1000’s No. 10 SS
Eric Reid was good everywhere. The fact he still lost his starting spot tells you how good Jaquiski Tartt was. Reid excelled in the box. He was aggressive against the run and didn’t miss too many tackles. He had no problem going out wide or playing in slot coverage, either. Look for the impending free agent to have a big impact for whoever he plays for.
—NFL1000 DB Scout, Kyle Posey
The 49ers asked Reid to play a host of roles in 2017—everything from “moneybacker” to deep safety—and he took every challenge with aplomb. Defensive coordinator Robert Saleh had Reid at the line of scrimmage a lot, where he could blitz, shoot the gaps to stop the run or drop into curl/flat coverage based on the defense. He has become one of the NFL’s more versatile safeties and would be a major asset for any team looking to expand its nickel and dime coverage looks.
—NFL1000 Lead Scout Doug Farrar
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Bruce Allen aint going anywhere yall
damnit!
Bruce was on some show yesterday and was telling the world he’s not going to the Raiders
it’s all rumors and incorrect ones at that
…until it isn’t
Surely nobody actually put stock into that nonsense.
Seemed unlikely, but OTOH, if there’s any truth to it there’s zero chance he would admit it before it becomes official.
Perine should not be stopped on and down and 1 to go. It’s an attitude he needs to develop.
We still don’t have a RB with the “shake and bake” gear. Guice, as violent as he is, still gets run down by the safety. That’s fine, though, busting off chunk yards still loads the box, RPO should work lovely.
The Redskins haven’t had a guy like that for a generation. But I’ll take a violent RB who loves to run over linebackers and safeties any day. If Guice pans out, he should be the best this team has had since Portis, and he could end up pretty high in the Redskins RB record books with just 4-5 good years.
Sure, nobody’s saying otherwise. Just stating a fact that can be seen on every film clip I’ve seen of Guice.
I personally think elite breakaway speed in a RB is a bit overrated by fans. Sure, I’d rather the RB have it than not, don’t get me wrong, but vision, power, cutting ability, and motor are more important. There’ve been lots of burners who don’t make it.
Certainly, some of the runs that Guice turned into TDs in college would be 7 yard runs in the NFL, but I’ll take it.
He’s what moves the chains. Control the ball, control the clock, T.O.P., play with a lead, win more games.
Pair that with a Defense that can force passing situations, give you three and outs…
Nothing helps improve defensive numbers like a good RB taking an extra 4-5 min off the clock every game.
I seem to remember CT25 with a couple of long TDs that would qualify as shake and bake
get him in space and guys had trouble tackling him and he had some long gains
He doesn’t have that top gear, a safety or cornerback that hasn’t been blocked will more often than not, catch him.
Running backs for 2018:
Guice
Thompson
only 2….they will keep 4.
Those are the only two you’ll be watching after 9/9
probably only 3 unless they have a full back (doubtful)
the reason is fairly simple, if one gets injured, it isn’t that difficult to call a guy like Bibbs off the couch; the reason they kept 4 the last couple of years was there was no clear lead back
Steve Thomas Team
It’s a real shame about Keith Marshall, because he has talent, but some guys bodies just can’t take pro football.
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It’s one thing I wonder about with some guys, I know you can see some warning signs for injuries, but how does any staff prepare and be warned with a guy who’s just hurt 3-4 years?
The team obviously knew about his injury history and was willing to take a late 7th rounder flyer on a guy with talent.
After all… that’s what 7th rounders are for
But you would hope that he would at least get some PT before going on IR 2 years in a row.
It was a risk and they were aware of it. They knew that Marshall might not play much, I bet.
Guice
Kelley
SPerine
CTHOMP
I think that would be the obvious lineup… now let’s see how much fight the rest of the crew has.
That’s reasonable.
I do think Bibbs has a chance to unseat Kelley, though. They aren’t going to give up on Perine so quickly since he was a draft pick, so I think Perine is a lock regardless.
I like Bibbs because I think he’s a better receiving threat.
Perine has very good hands
He and Kelley need to come into camp at around 220
To improve quickness
I get the thinking, but I want someone to get fat and be a goal line back.
I thought that was Guice’s job…
It is
But Guice is smaller than the lot of em! I just want Perine to become the Gerald Riggs of this roster.
I think this also is the NEXT most likely scenario
“The [inability] to win one-on-one, to win downfield. There was inconsistency as well as some huge things in his play. So what’s best moving forward for Dez Bryant the Cowboys, we just made that decision. It’s a production-based business.”
Bum
Dez Bryant still is young enough where he can become an NFL drifter for 3-5 years.
They’re just now realizing that?
Former Green Bay Packers defensive end Carlos Gray was shot to death in his home in Pinson, Ala. Monday night, according to Carol Robinson of AL.com.
Gray, 25, was found dead just before 10 p.m. ET Monday night as authorities were called to the house when a friend found injured and unresponsive.
Officers found weapons, digital scales and marijuana inside the residence. A kidnapping of two males on Tuesday morning was thought to be in connection to Gray’s death. Gray had pleaded guilty to a marijuana possession charge last year.
“We have a long way to go but we will get to the bottom of it,” deputy Randy Christian said. “At the end of the day, it will likely all be over drugs and drug money.”
Saw that yesterday… didn’t post it because, well, it’s your job
How much marijuana?
1 assault rifles worth. Obs.
So an ounce?
Some debate over if it’s a $200 or $500 oz.
$250 for dank, in DC……
I got this old rusty single shot H&R 12 gauge….
Killed over an ounce, sad…
Over/under on when Keith Marshall or Phil Taylor gets hurt?
August 21st
I was going to say May 21st
It’s a real shame about Keith Marshall, because he has talent, but some guys bodies just can’t take pro football.
UGA turd
Outside!
Lower body injuries= diminished speed
See ya