It isn't just Kouandjio not starting....

[The Big Cat]

I read Warren Sapp's contract with the NFL Networth is for $540,0000/year and he's just another guy on a seemingly part time gig (and a jerk if you can trust people who've met him). These other guys have to trounce him on the income front.

 

What other guys? The pencil-neck reporters who'd be lucky to make 50K in any other gig? Nah, Sapp makes 500K because he--like all the other former-players who work in TV now--is a celebrity. He's employed to provide star-appeal.

 

The rest of the guys are just working Joes, marginally better at their jobs than the army of 22-35 year olds desperate to get a toe in the door. Top brass need bodies to get the actual work done, and for the NFLN, it's a buyers' market.

[Utah John]

RGIII hasn't played well at all since his first season. And he hasn't proved that he can be effective as a pocket passer. It may be the case that he is a bust. Lets see what happens this season.

 

The only way you can say RGIII is a bust is to look at "bust" as another term for "broken." He got caught up in the hype of the Skins making the playoffs in his rookie year, and his idiot coach and the incompetent team doctor were complicit in playing him and subjecting him to further and disastrous injury. I don't think he'll ever be the same special player he was. He might turn into a competent professional QB, doing the things expected of normal players, but he clearly had the special and rare skills the Skins went after. But you don't buy a Ferrari to haul manure, and it was a real shame how he was treated by his team.

[prissythecat]

The only way you can say RGIII is a bust is to look at "bust" as another term for "broken." He got caught up in the hype of the Skins making the playoffs in his rookie year, and his idiot coach and the incompetent team doctor were complicit in playing him and subjecting him to further and disastrous injury. I don't think he'll ever be the same special player he was. He might turn into a competent professional QB, doing the things expected of normal players, but he clearly had the special and rare skills the Skins went after. But you don't buy a Ferrari to haul manure, and it was a real shame how he was treated by his team.

 

How was RGIII special? During that first season , he sure looked like just another runner who occasionally passed the ball to someone wide open. As proven time and again, no one can last in NFL doing that. He's a mess now that he is being asked to stay in pocket and actually read a defense and throw the ball with anticipation of where the receiver will be--the types of things that an actual QB does.