Please tell me: How? This will not keep him out next year, which is what is required for us to be on the hook for next years salary. How are we completely screwed again?
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Please tell me: How? This will not keep him out next year, which is what is required for us to be on the hook for next years salary. How are we completely screwed again?
I haven't heard anything out of Ashburn and I've seen multiple conflicting reports. Jay Grudens presser tonight after the game could break records for veiwership
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It seems like a pretty obvious call again right now. 3 clear choices. A 3rd grader could pick the right one.
1. Keep him on the team as a backup, and roll the dice if he needs to play later in the season. The risk obviously increases with each passing week. (Max risk $16.4 million)
2. Trade him right now and eat part of that $16.4 million guarantee next season. (Max loss $6-$12 million?)
3. Cut him before opening day.
$3.4 mil is fully guaranteed this year, so that rules out a trade of any kind.
After a night and morning to think about it, here is my $0.02 and nothing more.
Griff has played his last down as a Redskin. Pretty sure of it. After a porous preseason, the team has decided to move on, but can't trade him or release - the $3.4 mil nixes those possibilities.
The team needs to have him healthy by next March so they can release him before the $16.2 mil option becomes official. If he is still injured (technically via concussion or other injury), then the Redskins are on the hook for the full amount.
If he can be released with no injuries when March rolls around, then the team can fully rescind the option.
That is why he no longer plays another snap, imho. The team saw what he did in this preseason and it seems now as if they have decided to move on from Griff.
After a night and morning to think about it, here is my $0.02 and nothing more.
Griff has played his last down as a Redskin. Pretty sure of it. After a porous preseason, the team has decided to move on, but can't trade him or release - the $3.4 mil nixes those possibilities.
The team needs to have him healthy by next March so they can release him before the $16.2 mil option becomes official. If he is still injured (technically via concussion or other injury), then the Redskins are on the hook for the full amount.
If he can be released with no injuries when March rolls around, then the team can fully rescind the option.
That is why he no longer plays another snap, imho. The team saw what he did in this preseason and it seems now as if they have decided to move on from Griff.
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Well it's very risky to play him. Obviously another ACL would be awful, but what if he simply suffers from another concussion or two?
It's kind of hard to prove that a person isn't suffering from permanent migraines when that evaluation comes. If that happened, kiss $16 million from our cap goodbye next year.
That extension also just made it more difficult to trade him. We tied the hands of anyone who would think of giving him a shot.
The only other thing I would add to this is if another team ends up needing a Qb in an injury situation after the 1st couple weeks.
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With Griff's salary structure, it is virtually impossible. Anything can happen, but highly unlikely.
Only if he gets injured to the point that he can't pass a physical March 1 right?
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Again, big whoop McD.
He could just be released. I know we'd have to suffer the devastating crush of losing out on a 6th round pick (Oh My God!!!)
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He could just be released. I know we'd have to suffer the devastating crush of losing out on a 6th round pick (Oh My God!!!)
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Kinda have to, no? There is certainly no one else that we can.
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If the decision is made that Griffin is not the answer... we need to remove doubt from the equation. Losing a 6th might sting a bit but holding onto this turmoil of nonsense because of a very minor cap hit and late round pick just isn't worth it
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Correct.
Again, for those who think a trade can happen - it is highly unlikely and the team would be on the hook for the option if another injury occurs. This is why a trade does not happen.
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Agreed, ST. IF that is what's happening here.
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If Griffin WANTS to be traded, he'll agree to just about anything - won't he? All those barriers could just be set aside if he's desperate enough to get out of DC.
The thing is, all of that is speculation. While speculation is kind of our stock in trade, it is silly to take speculation to the extreme of permanency, such as saying we are completely screwed.
A trade was highly unlikely in any event, even from the beginning of this calendar year. There just wasn't a team that would have had much gain for it.
If a player were to have the permanent migraines thing stop them from playing, my only question would be: what are we on the hook for if he retired? Cause that's what that is angling toward, not an inability to play the next year. Does anybody know what we'd be in for if Griffin decided to retire? Otherwise, such a situation would be completely unprecedented, and if we are worried about a situation that has never happened before, I believe we've let ourselves get a bit too carried away.
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Just no more injuries tonite.
We're averaging 2 players out for the season, per preseason game.
The line needs to greatly improve, or we could have another QB go down
We're averaging 2 players out for the season, per preseason game.
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