Fanspeak: Redskins Personnel

By: Justin Partlow   After the Redskins tagged Brian Orakpo, the question immediately became “How do we target the rest of free agency and the draft?” That’s easily going to be the biggest question mark over the next few days as we approach the start of the legal tampering period and the beginning of Free … More »

1- Safety       It’s been a long time since I have been confident in either of the two safeties the Washington Redskins have put on the field. I was never a Laron Landry guy so you have to go back to Sean Taylor for me to approve of a safety wearing burgundy and … More »

It’s been a couple weeks since I originally posted the Fanspeak Redskins draft board. If this is completely new to you, here is a link to the original post explaining how it works. Over the past few weeks, the guys have been adding names here and there, with the board starting to take some shape.Some … More »

BREAKING: Team has announced franchise tag has been placed on LB @rak98 – more details to come on http://t.co/jdM7y5Ys0H. — Washington Redskins (@Redskins) March 3, 2014 The #Redskins and Orakpo have until July 15th to work out a long term deal or he will play under tag for this season. Won't sign it soon. — … More »

Part 1: Internal Options | Part 2: Free Agent Options In part 1 the focus was on the internal options and showing the importance of having a guy succeed on the right side of the line as it is the most important position on defense and arguably the 2nd most important position on a team … More »

Part 1: Internal Options | Part 2: Free Agent Options There is a major debate going on in the Redskins fan community (and apparently Redskins Park) about whether or not to retain ROLB Brian Orakpo or let him test free agent waters. While there could be a chance that Orakpo would come back if he hit unrestricted … More »

Yesterday the Redskins announced the re-signing of defensive lineman Chris Baker to what was reported at the time a 3 year $12 million deal. At first that looked liked the Redskins may have overpaid and got desperate. After the details of that deal later came out, it was clear that it was a smart signing … More »

1- Trent Williams has the highest cap number for the Redskins at almost $11 million. Good thing is in the past Washington would be forced to rework this deal but this off-season they are able to probably wait another year to deal with it since they are sitting in very good overall cap shape.  Williams … More »

This Redskins draft board is a project I’ve been running over on Hogs Haven the past few years. I try to get together a group of guys that follow the draft and, of course, are Redskins fans, to  evaluate draft prospects based on their fit with the Redskins. This year we have the HTTR 24-7 … More »

Part 1: Redskins 2014 Salary Cap Commitments  Part 2: How the “Rule of 51” Creates Additional Cap Flexibility Part 3: Potential 2014 Cuts Part 4: Impact of Cuts on Future Years In Part 1 I listed the Redskins salary cap commitments by position and there was a clear breakdown between the $55.755 million spent on … More »