Random Commanders Thoughts

Cooley pointed out Davis can be kept in case there is an injury.

Also, his contract pays a 500k bonus this year if he is active for 12 games. He's close to losing his bonus.
 
Cooley pointed out Davis can be kept in case there is an injury.

Also, his contract pays a 500k bonus this year if he is active for 12 games. He's close to losing his bonus.

I must be in the minority but the whole "work hard, act right, play hard or we will sit your ass and let you rot on our inactive list" kinda works for me. I still think he may have failed a team only drug test or something. Let him sit there until an opportunity arises for him to get on the field. How it turns out in the end is up to how he handles everything. If he's mature and goes with it working hard and keeping his head down other teams will take notice and sign him. If he's an assclown (where my money sits) he'll be playing for the Jags next year.
 
Cooley said he was falling asleep in meetings.


He's not the only end all be all in redskins information, but I have a hard time thinking be a would make that up.
 
In other words 'No other NFL team was stupid enough to offer the Redskins a damn thing for Sleepy Davis'

hmmm. beg to differ exulted leader. every team knows they can get him at season's end at no cost. how many teams trade in-season for TEs?

this is mismanagement by the Skins. They had a business reason for signing him - and a football reason - and clearly both have changed. so, one is left to wonder how strategy is formed (there is evidence in other areas that the answer is "not well"…..see offensive scheme) and how stable it is. they are paying for something - what value are they getting out of it? my prediction is that he will go someplace else at season's end and, providing there is a decent QB, do quite well. everyone else can fret over behavior, etc. I'm just looking at yet another personnel move with little return on investment.

with this crappy pass offense….are folks saying two TE sets w/Davis and Reid should never have been tried?

leadership creates opportunity and inspires performance. I'm not seeing much of that on this team anymore. another core problem, IMO…were I ever asked :). this team has already started finger pointing.
 
I don't know why two TE sets with cooley and davis were never tried. It never made any damn sense to me.

That said, this team needs Griffin to get back to normal more than anything else. You can put as many TE's on the field as you want, if the QB can't get the ball to them it doesn't matter :(
 
I don't know why two TE sets with cooley and davis were never tried. It never made any damn sense to me.

That said, this team needs Griffin to get back to normal more than anything else. You can put as many TE's on the field as you want, if the QB can't get the ball to them it doesn't matter :(

true dat. he does seem to get the ball to Reid.
 
this is mismanagement by the Skins. They had a business reason for signing him - and a football reason - and clearly both have changed. so, one is left to wonder how strategy is formed (there is evidence in other areas that the answer is "not well"…..see offensive scheme) and how stable it is. they are paying for something - what value are they getting out of it? my prediction is that he will go someplace else at season's end and, providing there is a decent QB, do quite well. everyone else can fret over behavior, etc. I'm just looking at yet another personnel move with little return on investment.

with this crappy pass offense….are folks saying two TE sets w/Davis and Reid should never have been tried?

leadership creates opportunity and inspires performance. I'm not seeing much of that on this team anymore. another core problem, IMO…were I ever asked :). this team has already started finger pointing.

I think you may be reading into things a bit there. It could be something as simple as the team didn't expect Reed to come on so quickly. All reports coming out of the draft were that Reed was talented but very raw, so maybe the team figured they needed someone who could start until Reed was ready, which turned out to be almost immediately. If Davis was part of our long term plans we would have offered him more than a one year deal.

I am certain nobody offered anything for Davis. If there was interest for him he'd have signed somewhere else in the offseason. We got him back for a short cheap deal for a reason.

Barring injuries to other players Davis is done here. That's really all that matters.
 
I want our Griffin back
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I really think Meriweather talked his way off this roster. The fact the Redskins are going to keep him and continue to start him makes the organization look pretty bad.

If we can't play on without a 29 year old journeyman with a history of stupid penalties and fines, this team is really in a sorry state.

Last week we gave up 35 points to Manning (Cromartie TD was on our offense) without Meriweather.

The week before we gave up 34 points to the Bears using a backup qb (Hester TD on ST) with Meriweather on the field.

What's the difference?
 
yeah and some of the points were off bad turnovers and a defense that had been on the field the whole game.

i thought our safeties did fine last week :(
 
Any interest in Michael Huff around here? I see he's being let go by the Ratbirds. I know NOTHING about him.
 
An article I was reading implied that Halbritter is trying to leverage this issue to jump start a political career in upstate NY.

The same piece interviewed a number of Oneida that said while Halbritter is a leader he never got approval from the tribe to take these actions to the NFL.
 
An article I was reading implied that Halbritter is trying to leverage this issue to jump start a political career in upstate NY.

The same piece interviewed a number of Oneida that said while Halbritter is a leader he never got approval from the tribe to take these actions to the NFL.

Saw this posted a few places today... He just doesn't seem like a person who should be the front man for anything related to civil rights. We'll see.

Claudia Tenney ousted by Halbritter. Oneida dictator. - YouTube


http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Claudia-Tenney

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEJDBaXNzKU - the story about the man she refers to in the above video. Tenney is the man's attorney.

Biography
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Claudia Tenney was first elected to the New York State Assembly on November 2, 2010, and represents the 101st Assembly District. The 101st AD is comprised of parts of Oneida, Herkimer, Otsego, Delaware, Ulster, Sullivan and Orange counties.She is an attorney, businesswoman and advocate for the people of Central New York. She is currently co-owner and legal counsel to Mid-York Press, Inc., a commercial printing and manufacturing firm started by her grandfather in 1946. Mid-York Press employs nearly 80 people in the Chenango County community of Sherburne. Claudia also maintains an active private law practice in Clinton, New York.In 1997, Claudia established Tenney Media Group and served as its publisher and corporate counsel. Tenney Media Group, also based in Clinton, published and printed free community newspapers founded by Claudia’s parents and grandparents-- the Mid-York Weekly and Pennysaver. These publications covered three Central New York counties with eight separate weekly editions and had a circulation exceeding 100,000 households. The original Mid-York Weekly dates back to the early 1800s and remains one of the oldest continuously-running weekly newspapers in the country. This division was sold to Gannett in 2004.In January of 2001, Claudia began serving as co-host and moderator of “Common Cents”, a radio and television program that airs weekly across Oneida and most of Herkimer County. In February of 2010, Claudia began co-hosting “First Look” on WIBX 950 Radio.Claudia is no stranger to the Assembly, having served her predecessor, former Assemblyman David Townsend, from 2003-2009 as chief of staff and legal counsel. The foremost example of Claudia’s dedication to principles of fairness and equality is her ongoing effort to resolve the issues between the Oneida Nation, local governments, private citizens and bona fide Oneida Indians. During her tenure as Assemblyman Townsend’s legal counsel, Claudia brought suit against both the state and federal governments on behalf of the people of Central New York, the Mohawk Valley and a full-blooded Oneida Indian in order to preserve the rights afforded to private citizens and Oneidas who have been disenfranchised by inequities caused by a lack of federal and state oversight.Apart from the influence of family and Claudia’s training in the law, Claudia’s approach to public service has been shaped by experiences beyond politics. Claudia was the only American employed by the Consulate General of Yugoslavia. She served as a foreign correspondent and also acted as intermediary between ABC Sports and the Yugoslavian government leading up to the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo. Claudia has remained active with friends and colleagues from the former Yugoslav Consulate and with the large Bosnian refugee population in the Utica area. She also published and produced the first Bosnian newspaper in Utica.Claudia graduated from Colgate University and the Taft College of Law at the University of Cincinnati. She is admitted to the bar in New York, Connecticut and Florida. She also is admitted to all federal courts including the United States Supreme Court. Prior to opening her private practice, Claudia was a partner in the Utica-area law firm of Groben, Gilroy, Oster and Saunders. Claudia is an active member of her community, serving on numerous boards and volunteer organizations throughout the district, including the Mohawk Valley Community College Foundation Board and the Sitrin Homes Foundation.

Claudia is the daughter of Cynthia and the late Honorable John R. Tenney. Judge Tenney served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of New York in the Fifth Judicial District from 1969 through 2003. Claudia is the mother of U.S. Naval Academy graduate Midshipman 3/C Trey Cleary, who begins training for the Marines Corps in the summer of 2013.

A little about Halbritter's backroom deal with the state of NY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nrhkyAa2oA
 
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I am so furious about this Halbritter character now seeing him dress up like indian guy for all his TV appearances when I just met dozens of folks who are 100% Hualapai, Navajo and Hopi that don't dress up like this.

This guy is a fraud, a wannabee politician, a money grab artist! I hope it comes out that he's not even Oneida!

Documents: Anti-Redskins Indian leader not a legitimate member of his tribe

Ray Halbritter Fraud!
Via-The Daily Caller
The American Indian leader spearheading the campaign to change the name of the Washington Redskins is not a legitimate member of the tribe he leads, according to a New York State Assemblywoman, but rather an Obama crony who is raking in casino money and paying back only small stipends to his tribe members.
Oneida Nation Representative Ray Halbritter, who is also the CEO of Oneida Nation Enterprises, is not recognized in his position by the Grand Council of Chiefs governing the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy. Halbritter is not a legitimate member of the Oneida tribe, Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney told The Daily Caller.


“He is not even technically an Oneida. There is not a drop of Oneida in him,” Tenney said.
Halbritter traces his lineage back to a woman who lived on traditional Iroquois Confederacy land, but as a non-member of the Six Nations.
A microcopy of 1885-1940 Indian Census Rolls from the National Archives of the United States, obtained by The Daily Caller, disputes Halbritter’s claim to have one-fourth Oneida blood on his mother’s side. The Oneida Indian Nation of New York determines membership by matrilineal descent and requires “a blood quantum of 1/4 degree,” according to its constitution, submitted to a former official of the U.S. Department of the Interior in 1994.
The document lists Lucy Carpenter, Halbitter’s great-great grandmother on the “Census of Indians residing upon the Oneida Reservation who do not belong to the Six Nations.”
Many Indians whose families left New York attempted to get back into the Six Nations during this period to take advantage of various treaties.
Lucy Carpenter’s daughter Christina Cornelius, born in Canada, had a daughter in New York named Mary Cornelius, who later married and changed her name to “Mary Winder” and had a daughter in New York named Gloria Winder, who went on to have a son with a man named “Ramon Halbritter.” That son was Arthur “Ray” Halbritter, the current Representative of the Oneida Nation, according to documents obtained by TheDC.
- See more at: The Daily Smug: Documents: Anti-Redskins Indian leader not a legitimate member of his tribe
 
OK one more that many of us problem hadn't read....

The disputed Indian leader pushing to change the Redskins team name had already entered into an undisclosed television agreement with NBC Sports when Bob Costas delivered his on-air editorial condemning the Redskins name. The Oneida Indian Nation’s Turning Stone Casino in upstate New York, overseen by gaming mogul and disputed Oneida Nation Representative Ray Halbritter, will host its first NBC “Fight Night” production November 16 with the IBF heavyweight title fight between Tomasz Adamek and Vyacheslav Glazkov. NBC already had the deal in place to broadcast from Turning Stone when Bob Costas delivered a halftime editorial during NBC’s October 13 primetime broadcast of the Cowboys-Redskins game. Costas treated unsuspecting Sunday Night Football fans to an impromptu etymology lesson, noting that objections to the names of the Braves, Chiefs, or Warriors represent “political correctness run amok” because “these nicknames honor rather than demean.” On the other hand, the amateur linguist said, the Cleveland Indians and their mascot Chief Wahoo “have sometimes run into trouble.”Costas elaborated that the Stanford Cardinal and Dartmouth Big Green were “both once the Indians,” while the St. John’s Red Men “have become the Red Storm.” “And the Miami of Ohio Redskins, that’s right Redskins, are now the RedHawks,” Costas said. Costas said that the name Redskins “truly differs from all the others. "It’s an insult, a slur, no matter how benign the present-day intent,” Costas said.
Read more: Bob Costas' network partners with anti-Redskins tribe | The Daily Caller

NBC owns Profootballtalk.com The reason why there are so many anti redskins name articles lately I would guess.
 
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Man of the hour: Redskins fullback Darrel Young scored a career-high three touchdowns and was clearly in demand. Teammates were thrilled for him because it’s his job to usually clear the holes for Morris. Young spoke at the podium, which is a rarity (not sure he’s ever done that after a game). Then he spoke in the locker room until a member of the public relations staff tried to usher him out since he had already talked. But Young was in a talkative mood and spent the next five minutes or so answering questions.

Locker Room Buzz: Washington Redskins - Washington Redskins Blog - ESPN

Good for you Young.
 

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