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The Redskins announced that S Kyshoen Jarrett is OUT for the Packers playoff game. That comes as bad news to fans…about a player most never heard of, really.
Jarrett and CB Dashaun Phillips left the Cowboys game after both collided with RB Darren McFadden. Their head-to-head blows knocked them out of the game with deep concerns for injuries.
The Redskins won in spite of the loss to an already depleted secondary. That says something about how this team has changed. Check this list of 2015 contributors.
- Kyshoen Jarrett
- Dashaun Phillips
- Rashad Ross
- Arie Kouandjio
- Ty Nsekhe
- Quenton Dunbar
- Preston Smith
- Pierre Thomas
All joined the Redskins this year as draftees or free agent pick-ups, and all may find a place on the 2016 roster. GM Scot McCloughan is building this team on a backbone of youth and depth.
Ten years ago, Daniel Snyder, Vinnie Cerrato and the sainted Joe Gibbs built the team with “proven talent” at the top, but little depth to back them up. They torpedoed the salary cap to do it.
Football seasons are a test of your depth. Daniel Snyder, in his first dozen years running the team, never grasped that point.
The new face of the franchise, Kirk Cousins, joined the team as a Draft pick for depth in 2012. He was largely ignored by the owner, according to Mike Shanahan, in his first three years here. Now the Redskins may scramble to re-sign Cousins and at a higher cost than the $16M deal they made with Robert Griffin III for next year.
Don’t hate. Free agent salaries are determined by the market place, not by teams. If the Redskins want to keep Cousins, they have to out-bid other teams for him, or tie him up with the franchise tag at $19.7M guaranteed.
In the unlikely event they lose Cousins (McCloughan would never allow that to happen, I hope), there sits Robert Griffin III, uninjured and another year of development under his belt at the bargain price of $16M.
The ‘Skins are sitting pretty at quarterback, but I digress.
Mike Shanahan and Bruce Allen rescued the salary cap from disorder. McCloughan seeded the team with a nucleus of developing talent already contributing to the team.
Doggonit if the Redskins aren’t operating like a real NFL club with genuine football intelligence. This deprives Hog Heaven of our basic thesis about this team – that the source of failure lies at the very top.
Look to Cleveland to see the league’s most dysfunctional team now. Jimmy Haslam is making all the mistakes that Dan Snyder used to make.
Hail to that!
Point after:
Kyshoen Jarrett’s 2015 Draft Analysis found on nfl.com.
Kyshoen Jarrett’s roster page found on redskins.com.
Image credit: Kyshoen Jarrett from Redskins.com.
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