Jason Babin just released by the Eagles - Should we make a run?

[DogofWar1]

Babin reminds me of Haynesworth in that he singlemindedly wants to pursue the QB, AND NOTHING ELSE.

I don't think Shanahan would put up with his crap. He could play OLB and rush, but it's just not worth it I think.

[Hail26]

Noooooooooooooooooo.

[peanut0862]

We are the worst team in the league against the pass. I would take a shot with anyone right now for the last 5+ games to see if it would help

[TheDane]

Advocating signing the same DRC who tried to decapitate RGIII? Uh, no thanks.

[sens11]

Pass on their problems. We on way up, they on way down.

[The Robert Griffin Experience]

Jason Babin is trash.

Utter failure in both the 3-4 and the normal 4-3 defenses (he was drafted as a 3-4 OLB). Pretty much worthless when asked to do other things than rush the passer. Terrible locker room guy. Terrible intangibles. Doesn't really care about football. Jim Washburn product (see Haynesworth, Albert). Thuggish just like EVERY "star" DL that goes through the Fisher/Washburn/Schwartz/Gregg Williams pipeline.

Seriously, why would anyone want this guy? Cool, he has 5.5 sacks. Kerrigan would have double digits easy by now playing in the Wide 9, and Rak would be pushing 20 by season's end, because both of them are better players than Cole and Babin.
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[NewCliche21]

DogofWar, your signature doesn't make sense. David Windham asked the question, right? But the quote says that "He" is David Windham, friend of RGIII, who responded.

I'm confusered.

Oh, and hell no on Babin. We don't even know why he was released, and if you are productive and get just plain RELEASED from a team, then something bad happened. No more drama, plz.

[Laxpunk2006]

Actually you are right - he played OLB in their 3-4 in his rookie year, I had forgotten that. But they switched to the 4-3 in his second year (the year they drafted Mario Williams) and he switched to DE. `so he has 1 year (I think) of playing as an OLB in a 3-4 but has played DE in a 4-3 since then.

At best for us he would be a situational pass rusher playing some DE when we go to 4 down lineman or stand up rush end when we go to our nickle or dime packages. He will want to go to a 4-3 team and thats who would get the best (if there is any left) value from him. Not us.

Mario Williams was drafted in 2006.

Jason Babin played OLB under Dom Capers, one of the best 3-4 coordinators in the game for the first two seasons of his career and was an absolute bust.

He has 17.5 sacks in 6 seasons not with Jim Washburn. In 3 seasons with him he has 36. Maybe if we let him pin his ears back and solely pass rush (like he does under Washburn) we'll get a slight improvement in our pass rush. For the $1.6 we would owe him this season, the $4.325 in 2013, $6.175 in 2014, and $6.15 in 2015 we would be married to I don't see it being worth it. Our salary cap is already a mess after the penalty so why further exacerbate the problem for a player that doesn't fit our system or our long term plans?

If I'm Shanahan/Allen I have zero interest in Jason Babin even before taking into considering that he's a dirty player and a jerk.

[Son of Gadsden]

Jason Babin.

18 sacks, 30 tackles!

[dballer]

And 5.5 this season.

And has never (again, as far as I can tell) played in the 3-4.

Which would be second on our team...

Normally I would say no. But it's not like it would hurt. We could use him on passing downs only. If he was motivated for the rest of the year it might be a boost. Certainly not a long term deal, though.

[MartinC]

actually DRC is a free agent after the season so they may end up keeping Asomugha

Asomugha base salary next year is $15M - only $4M of which is guaranteed. Given the level of his play what do you think the odds are of a new coaching staff and maybe front office wanting to devote $15M to a 33 year old corner on the way down? There was no signing bonus on his deal either so no dead cap apart from that $4M.

[gortiz]

haha, but he's NOT. he is a locker room cancer, and nobody likes him at the Eagles. it's one reason they are getting rid of him.

okay, i'm done lobbying for the son of a *****!

didn't know he was not like ... let's move on.

his cut seemed pretty abrupt ... i bet he didn't make a lot of friends to get let go of so easily.

[Hitman21ST]

Jason Babin.

18 sacks, 30 tackles!

Aldon Smith

14 sacks, 37 tackles last year

[NIKKI8]

Before I started reading the posts on this thread I thought "why not" because of our horrible pass rush, but I never realized that he was such a bad guy personaly so maybe it isn't worth the money to bring him in. I remember during the Gibbs 1 years the Redskins would bring in DL to strictly rush the passer like Jumpy Geathers and I thought maybe Babin could be that type of player to just play on obvious passing downs and help with the pass rush and take some of the pressure off of Kerrigan. Maybe Detroit will sign him, he should fit in well with that thug Suh.

[Laxpunk2006]

Aldon Smith

14 sacks, 37 tackles last year

Rookie that only plays in passing situations vs. veteran starter. You know that.