Skins to sign McCardell

NeedsMoreCheese · Post #1 » by **NeedsMoreCheese** » Mon Oct 1, 2007 5:02 am

McCardell and the Redskins: Barring unanticipated glitches, veteran free-agent wide receiver Keenan McCardell officially will sign a one-year contract with the Washington Redskins on Monday, when the club reports back to work following its bye this weekend. The two sides have already agreed in principle to the deal.

The 18th-leading receiver in NFL history in terms of yards, McCardell negotiated with the Redskins this spring, but signed with his hometown Houston Texans, who released him before the start of the season. McCardell, 37, will become the sixth wide receiver on the Washington roster, which means someone likely will be released, and the leading candidate is probably fifth-year veteran Brandon Lloyd.

The Redskins acquired Lloyd from the 49ers last year for a third-round pick in the 2006 draft and a fourth-round choice this year. Like most deals in which the Redskins sacrifice draft picks for an overrated player, the trade has been a bust. In 18 games in a Redskins' uniform, Lloyd has only 23 catches for 365 yards and has not scored a touchdown. He has zero receptions in three games this season.

Notable is that McCardell, a two-time Pro Bowl performer, actually began his professional career with the Redskins in 1991 as a 12th-round draft pick. McCardell has 861 receptions for 11,117 yards and 62 touchdowns. He has registered seven seasons with 70 or more catches and five 1,000-yard campaigns. His career season was in 2000, when he rang up 94 catches for 1,207 yards for the Jacksonville Jaguars.

The former Nevada-Las Vegas star has appeared in 199 games with 167 starts in stints with Washington (1991), Cleveland (1992-95), Jacksonville (1996-2001), Tampa Bay (2002-03) and San Diego (2004-06). Last season, McCardell had 36 receptions for 437 yards with San Diego, but he played in only 11 games, was phased out later in the year when the Chargers began to rely on younger players, and failed to score a touchdown for the first time since 1994.

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Well at least Snyder continues to support senior citizens
:rofl:

Wizards2Lottery · Post #2 » by **Wizards2Lottery** » Mon Oct 1, 2007 8:12 pm

Yeah Brandon Lloyd has serious attitude problems. Hes TO without the talent. Hes extremely gifted but wants everything on a silver platter. He took being demoted to #3 in a very bad way. Stopped working hard and wanted the #2 spot back without showing production.

Things went downhill for him when he started getting into altercations with Campbell and Portis. IMO hes not a team player and a hard worker. He could be a player in this league if he ever gets his head straight but I doubt it. If you can't turn your career around with Joe Gibbs, you probably can't else where. Gibbs is as lenient and player loving as they come and if your in dog house, you really suck at life.

Post #3 » by **J.Kim** » Mon Oct 1, 2007 8:20 pm

Speaking of 49ers' receiver flameouts...

Does anyone remember a poster by the name of arfer_____ (bunch of numbers in there...)? And does anyone else remember just how much he hyped up RaShaun Woods during the 2004 draft?

:lol:

I just remembered the whole sequence with him and studcracker? (Or was it peppersquad?) arguing for pages why/why not RaShaun Woods would be the next Jerry Rice or something.

That's my nostalgia moment of the day.

Anyway, it's good to see Washington employing a Senior Employment and Geriatric Service.

Wizards2Lottery · Post #4 » by **Wizards2Lottery** » Mon Oct 1, 2007 8:22 pm

We're the Miami Heat of the NFL.

Post #5 » by **Basketball Jesus** » Mon Oct 1, 2007 8:31 pm

Fun fact: Old Man McCardell was 24th in DVOA last season. Also had the second-best catch rate in the league (71%) out of receivers thrown to at least 50 times. (Eric Moulds was first with a 74% catch rate.)

Post #6 » by **Da Schwab** » Mon Oct 1, 2007 8:35 pm

Kee Mac knows how to catch a ball. One of the Top 5 'over-the-middle' guys in the NFL the last 10 years or so.

Post #7 » by **J.Kim** » Mon Oct 1, 2007 8:45 pm

Basketball Jesus wrote:Fun fact: Old Man McCardell was 24th in DVOA last season. Also had the second-best catch rate in the league (71%) out of receivers thrown to at least 50 times. (Eric Moulds was first with a 74% catch rate.)

Another fun fact:
San Diego had the RB with the 4th best DVOA of the DVOA era. Which made Linebackers respect the rush that much more, and free up Receivers coming down the middle (i.e. Keenan McCardell).

(Oh and the DVOA ratio that you concocted doesn't look favorably upon McCardell either

)

I don't think he's going to find much success in the Indigenous Peoples' offense.

Post #8 » by **Basketball Jesus** » Mon Oct 1, 2007 8:51 pm

J.Kim wrote:Another fun fact:
San Diego had the RB with the 4th best DVOA of the DVOA era. Which made Linebackers respect the rush that much more, and free up Receivers coming down the middle (i.e. Keenan McCardell).

(Oh and the DVOA ratio that you concocted doesn't look favorably upon McCardell either )

I don't think he's going to find much success in the Indigenous Peoples' offense.

I think his DVOA has more to do with his high catch rate and general ability to separate quickly over anything the offense was doing. He

Post #9 » by **Basketball Jesus** » Mon Oct 1, 2007 8:53 pm

J.Kim wrote:-
(Oh and the DVOA ratio that you concocted doesn't look favorably upon McCardell either )

I didn't say there was validity to the ratio, but rather I'm testing to see if there was. As far as I can tell, having gone through five seasons of data, there isn't any validity to either position influencing the other. It seems to be a situation basis.

I don't think he's going to find much success in the Indigenous Peoples' offense.

The Skins need a reliable underneath threat. He'll provide that.

Post #10 » by **studcrackers** » Mon Oct 1, 2007 9:15 pm

J.Kim wrote:Speaking of 49ers' receiver flameouts...

Does anyone remember a poster by the name of arfer_____ (bunch of numbers in there...)? And does anyone else remember just how much he hyped up RaShaun Woods during the 2004 draft?

I just remembered the whole sequence with him and studcracker? (Or was it peppersquad?) arguing for pages why/why not RaShaun Woods would be the next Jerry Rice or something.

That's my nostalgia moment of the day.

Anyway, it's good to see Washington employing a Senior Employment and Geriatric Service.

it was probably peppersquad. to be honest i liked rashaun woods in college and thought he'd be a good pro. anyways i dont see how this can be a bad signing, he's old but he's still productive.

Post #11 » by **J.Kim** » Mon Oct 1, 2007 11:12 pm

Basketball Jesus wrote:-= original quote snipped =-

The Skins need a reliable underneath threat. He'll provide that.

He will. It's just that I don't think he'll be as effective as the DVOA said he was with San Diego.

I mean, you can't solely pin the blame on their offensive ineptitude on the fact the Chargers don't have a reliable receiver. Norv Turner is absolutely incredulous that you would overlook him like that.

And I think the reason why McCardell had such a high catch rate (even for himself; he hovered around 60% pre-San Diego) was because LdT was such a threat to run the ball and receive the ball out of the backfield, causing LBs to be out of position when Keenan comes up the middle.

Now with Washington, he doesn't have as close a Running Game to stress the LBs in the middle of the field (-4.1% Rush Offense so far this season).

But who knows, I've been wrong on just about everything except for the Titans this season, so maybe I'll be wrong on this too....

Wizards2Lottery · Post #12 » by **Wizards2Lottery** » Mon Oct 1, 2007 11:43 pm

Keenan is our fifth WR and will probably stay there so I don't know why you guys are arguing this over.

Our depth chart at WR in a week or two will be:

Moss
Randle El
Caldwell
Thrash
McCardell

Brandon Lloyd will probably start getting DNP cd's or if he a team wants him, he will be traded away for a late 2nd day pick.

NeedsMoreCheese · Post #13 » by **NeedsMoreCheese** » Mon Oct 1, 2007 11:59 pm

Gilbert0Arenas wrote:Keenan is our fifth WR and will probably stay there so I don't know why you guys are arguing this over.

Our depth chart at WR in a week or two will be:

Moss
Randle El
Caldwell
Thrash
McCardell

Brandon Lloyd will probably start getting DNP cd's or if he a team wants him, he will be traded away for a late 2nd day pick.

Well looks like right now Moss will be out at least a week with a groin injury, that could definitely change though.

Wizards2Lottery · Post #14 » by **Wizards2Lottery** » Tue Oct 2, 2007 12:10 am

Yeah Moss is a pinky touch away from pulling a hamstring or groin. I've given up on him playing a full season. Hes a great player when healthy but for the past two seasons hes gotten injured way too often.

Post #15 » by **Icness** » Tue Oct 2, 2007 2:45 am

I was surprised McCardell couldn't make the Texans this year. Apparently they had no use for an aging possession receiver with a great attitude. He can help the Ethnic Slurs, if nothing more than being a professional.

LOL @ the Rashaun Woods discussion. I got on the business end of that hose too. Funny how many people just go away when they're proven wrong instead of facing the flaming music...