That is a nice acquisition by the Redskins, Shanny and Bruce Allen are very shrewd, they added Trent Williams to play LT, but with Brown a All Pro LT, Williams slides over to the easier to play RT, giving them nice bookends to keep McNabb's jersey clean. The Redskins, inspite of Albert Haynesworth, have upgraded the most of any NFL team this offseason imho, and Haynesworth could be more right than he knows, he wouldn't contribute much in the 3-4 anyway..so where is the harm?
Smart move IMO. I said it a while back and I still believe that Trent Williams is not a LT. I also think moving him to RT will do him very well for his career. He can play there IMO.
Agree, in one offseason acquiring bookend Tackles (Williams fired Eugene Parker BTW) and a Franchise Qb is a great job on their behalf. I do think they wind up with Michael Westbrook though, imho he is just holding back simply to avoid all the mini camp and OTA stuff.
I just saw the Haynesworth part and I disagree there. I think you can line up him in the 3 technique that he played in Tennessee (I think he played 3 tech) despite playing a 3-4.
Perhaps, my thought is more along the lines of if a new defense is being installed without Haynesworth's involvement it is less of problem because they are looking for the best player to fit the new scheme anyway. He was unproven in the 3-4 to begin with, and they are already searching for players, so where is the harm? He'd be starting at Square One and no different from the rest of the Unit and Wannabes.
Well his responsibilities as a three technique don't change much so I don't see how he's at square one? Maybe I'm misunderstanding you. If I am, I apologize.
I try to view things as a GM or Head coach or Coordinator would look at them Alen, which is a sort of a holdover from Baseball. Meaning, if one is building a new Defensive Unit with a whole new scheme, every player in the front 7 is a unknown, it would be my 'job' to find talent and plug it into the scheme. I'd have "x" players available, if Haynesworth was not available the GM/HC/DEf Cord would have to find the next best option to fill the role in the scheme and then work from there. Which moots Haynesworth, but imho is the way the Redskins are approaching the situation, they cannot just stop and wait for Fat Albert to arrive.
I agree with most of it. I don't think every player on the front seven is unknown if his responsibilities don't change much from the previous defense.
Well, sort of, the responsibilites will tweak a bit, and the whole unit has to be integrated, the ILB reads the NT/Blocking scheme as a part of their keys, different NT's are blocked differently and that takes time for the ILB to learn. The DE's who convert to standing up OLB's also have a learning curve. As a GM you have to synchronize with the HC and DC to find the players to fill roles, that is a part of the reason the switch to the 3-4 after signing Haynesworth makes little sense other than from a Head Coaching standpoint, now they have a Duck when they needed a Badger so to speak. Wrong tool for the job, wrong attitude for the Head Coach as well, and the pure idiocy is, Snyder wouldn't fire Zorn due to 3 million dollars guaranteed, which is 1/7th of Haynesworth's bonus check...pennywise and pound foolish.
The inside linebacker can be protected, just like in a 4-3 scheme. Use the one and three techniques in the 3-4. They are not blocked that much differently in a 1 gap scheme, which the Redskins have talked about running. The Redskins have also said that he would not play nose every down so I don't get what he's *****ing about. They stood up some of last year.
