Simeon Rice

Thats Fish being Fish. Were people excited about getting KVB a feel years ago...cmon now..

 

Simeon Rice and KVB are on different Stratospheres when they were free agents.

 

Don't forget Adam Archuleta.

 

Who IS that charming young lady in your avatar?

 

Redskins don't have much cap room... it'd be hard for them to sign Rice, but that doesn't make the fans feel good so they'd rather call it a sub-par scouting report (translation: "we can't afford him"). They are currently more interested in Strahan because the Giants would need to trade him if they want to land Rice. I can't imagine the Giants really trading Strahan to a division rival, but if they feel he's washed up then who knows... Simeon has been a rock for 10 years, and outside the recent injury hasn't shown any hint of slowing down.

Rice is in almost the same situation that Mawae was in - 12 year vet coming off one injury-filled season after a career with virtually no injuries. There was some bad blood between him and the team so they let him go. Mawae worked out for us, and Rice should do the same if we can pay him. I agree that I don't want this to keep us from re-signing some of the our upcoming FAs, but we should have the cap room to do both.

 

You just made my point. The Skins are a team that has time and time again over valued players and yet now they say a guy is "sub-par". They also get over zealous (as you pointed out) about throwing money at guys. Now they suddenly decide to be prudent with their money?

Consider the overall value of a guy like Rice. Is what he is going to want worth paying for what we are going to get. Maybe the Titans will be doing the same exact thing you are being critical of the Skins for doing if we sign this guy (over paying for over the hill or mediocre talent). We have better ways to spend our money on the roster right now IMO tying up some guys long term who will be around 4-5 years from now. Rice is a short term solution at best and jumping on guys like that is exactly how a team gets into CAP problems. I was dead set against signing Keyshawn for the same reasons and thankfully he didn't sign and we ended up with Moulds, a player of fiarly equal talent for the vet minimum. I'd rather go after Alex Brown if we need a DE because the value for the dollars spent would be much better and I'm not sure he isn't as good as Rice at this stage of Rice's career.