Will MIKE BARROW be healthy ???

N8DOGGS HOGS · Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Posts: 184

Now that Antonio Pierce is gone, will MICHAEL BARROW be healthy enough to step in as the starter at MLB next year? I haven't heard anything about his progress but I know he is getting up there in age as well! What have people heard?

e16bball · Joined: 17 Dec 2004 Posts: 14976

I think its kind of funny. All offseason every Skins fan has been pleading for Mike Barrow to retire, myself included. Now that we've lost Pierce, though, everybody wants to know how he is, myself included. lol. He actually has a knee problem similar to mine, and I can tell you that it hasnt gone away for me. Of course, I don't have a million physical therapists available to work on mine, but the fact remains. I havent heard anything concrete on his health, but basing it off my own similar injury, hes probably still sore after he runs.

riggensghost · Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 403

Barrow spoke to a reporter and said his rehab was ahead of schedule (funny he was supposed to return during last season) anyway, at best I dont want a 34 year old with limited mobility covering so much ground in the middle. We need to take a shot at Bell or Hartwell and if not grab a younger linebacker (like washington last year) and juggle what we got.

Sorry to hear about the knee..

sootedpair · Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 2188

I'm guessing that Bell and Hartwell might be wanting more than Pierce, seeing as how the Giants were ready to move on Bell, and then all of the sudden changed gears to get Pierce. I wouldn't count on us getting either of those guys without spending more than we would have spent signing Pierce.

riggensghost · Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 403

Agreed, but both are decisively better than Pierce also. I think Phila is going to make a move on Bell anyway.

Sign Plax and make Derrick Johnson our #9, and move Washington to the middle. I dont know how serious I am about that statement, but the more I read it the more I like it.

sootedpair · Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 2188

N8DOGGS HOGS · Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Posts: 184

LaVar is best at weak side LB (If Healthy) Rolling Eyes

This becomes a problem area now with Pierce gone and Barrow very questionable! The thing about Derrick Johnson is he is also an OLB, not an ILB/MLB

e16bball · Joined: 17 Dec 2004 Posts: 14976

Apparently Lemar Marshall is the team's answer at MLB. I'm not sure how that will work out, but he filled in admirably for LaVar so we shall see. We could always trade down in the draft and target Channing Crowder or pick up a 2nd rounder and target any number of the MLBs that fit in that round if we get real desperate.

taylor36 · Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Posts: 173

According to the Washington times, Lemar MArshall will be the new middlelinebacker.

The Washington Redskins aren't going to pursue any high-end inside linebackers to replace departed free agent Antonio Pierce. Instead, Washington's new man in the middle is Lemar Marshall, who performed admirably in place of injured LaVar Arrington on the weak side last year.
http://www.washtimes.com/sports/20050304-121358-4055r.htm