Bob Magaw
Footballguy
assuming he doesn't get fat & lazy with the big contract in the bag...
lombardi on NFL channell said something i said last year... haynesworth is the most dominant two way DL i've seen since reggie white in his prime...
he almost single handedly destroys a team's run game, & is an epic pocket collapser, enabling his teammates around him to make more plays getting to the QB... things are going to be a lot different for the cowboys, giants & eagles going forward when they line up against WAS...
not saying i would handicap them as the early favorite to leap frog over the rest of the NFC east denizens... but it should definitely partially close the gap in what was already a brutally competitive & notoriously tight division...
maintaining interior OL strength could be at even more of a premium than before for the division...
lombardi on NFL channell said something i said last year... haynesworth is the most dominant two way DL i've seen since reggie white in his prime...
he almost single handedly destroys a team's run game, & is an epic pocket collapser, enabling his teammates around him to make more plays getting to the QB... things are going to be a lot different for the cowboys, giants & eagles going forward when they line up against WAS...
not saying i would handicap them as the early favorite to leap frog over the rest of the NFC east denizens... but it should definitely partially close the gap in what was already a brutally competitive & notoriously tight division...
maintaining interior OL strength could be at even more of a premium than before for the division...

They have no passing game that is capable of winning games for them, certainly not on any sort of a consistent basis or against top defenses. They can run and play defense which is a solid formula for making the playoffs, but pretty much every team in the NFC East can boast that. Moreover they're still trying to rebuild an aged and injury-prone o-line. What's going to be lost on most people about Hall and Haynesworth is that they not only generally helped address two defensive deficiencies, they were virtually custom-made to do so (again, assuming proper motivation and health). The Redskins D-line has generated zero pass pressure rushing four people, and frankly rushing five generated little more. Haynesworth alone can fix that and should make the other guys around him - who aren't bad players but who certainly aren't stars - better. Moreover, while their CB's have been solid in coverage and run support, they have had a glaring inability to actually hold onto INT's, Carlos Rogers in particular. Hall even during the short time in 2008 he was playing with them was a marked improvement in that regard, and with the added pressure up front from Haynesworth the defensive whole may be improved more than the sum of the added parts. Still, until Campbell and the WR's and the o-line can prove that they have their act together, you still have to predict no better than a third place finish in a tough division. That's just the truth, and even that ignores the scary possibility of a complacent Haynesworth and a moody Hall amounting to busts for the 'Skins.
So true.