Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Offseason So Far

Eagles - Fantastic addition with Asante Samuel. The Skins can only hope to minimize that addition by trusting their big young receivers to go up and get the ball. However, Campbell can only do that on the periphery. One tipped pass between the hashes and Samuel will take it back the other way for 6.

Chris Clemons, the former Skin, adds good depth as a situational pass rusher. His speed is a big advantage against the aged and medically reconstructed Skins O-Line.

DeSean Jackson will be a huge boost to Special Teams and pose a real challenge for Danny Smith to keep his troops disciplined to take him down.

Cowboys - TO is a year older and was put on "watch" a few days ago for missing his random drug test. He really feared Sean Taylor and now his biggest nemesis is gone. Look at his stats in the second game he played against the Redskins. He killed them.

Pacman Jones is a low risk, high reward player. Plus, with the draft, the Boys have stocked up at corner. The Skins can counter with 2 TE formations with Cooley and Davis.

Giants - Strahan finally retired. There will be a leadership void but Manning and some of the other veterans showed toughness last year. In addition, the G-Men's D-line features double digit sack guys in Umenyora and Jason Tuck anyway. Even without Strahan, they've got the talent and the moxie to contend, if not repeat.

Redskins - The Giants added less than the Redskins but they are the defending Super Bowl champs. The Eagles are considerably better with Samuel and DeSean Jackson. And the Cowboys only had the best record in the NFC last season in addition to grabbing Pacman Jones, assuming he plays. It's a tougher division and it doesn't appear the team stocked up sufficiently to keep pace.