Redskins Supplemental Draft Pick: Defensive End Jeremy Jarmon

Just what we needed, three months later

The Redskins did something today they have never done before, that being select a player in the NFL Supplemental Draft, picking University of Kentucky defensive end Jeremy Jarmon in the third round.

Ok so that is not entirely accurate. What is more true to say is that the Redskins were the only team to select a player in the 2009 NFL Supplemental Draft so in that sense the headline may as well be

Redskins select defensive end with top overall pick in Supplemental Draft

The NFL Supplemental Draft is a very weird thing. It caters to college players with at least a year of NCAA eligibility remaining that would have been eligible for the year's NFL regular Draft in April but for whatever reason did not declare, intending to come back another season and play and then somehow lost that eligibility.

In Jeremy's case he took a banned substance in an over the counter dietary supplement and was nailed in a random drug test. All indications are that this was an oversight and not part of a pattern. However the positive test led to a season long suspension, so he declared for the Supplemental Draft.

The Supplemental Draft is kind of like a blind auction, teams submit bids for players over email, the bid being in the form of a draft pick in the following year's draft. There is a quote draft unquote order, based like the regular Draft on results of the previous season. The team that submits the highest round pick for a player gets the player, with cases where multiple teams bid the same round going to the team with the highest pick in the round.

So there is no draft in the established April sense of the term. No carnival hawker in a two thousand dollar suit gets up to a podium and says to a breathless crowd of NYC douchebags With the first selection in the 2009 NFL Supplemental Draft the Washington Redskins select...

Instead there is some poor suffering bastard NFL staffer with a spreadsheet and a bunch of printed emails. In the end there was only one player selected and the Redskins offered the most for him. Five other teams bid a fourth round for Jeremy.

For his part shadow general manager Vinny Cerrato thinks Jeremy would have been a second round pick next April after playing another season, then again Vinny also selected the only punter in the 2008 draft, Durant Brooks did not last seven games.

Eight players declared for the Supplemental Draft, only one was taken. The Redskins now forfeit their third round pick in the 2010 draft. So he better be worth it.

What about Jeremy? Well he seems to be a decent pick:

Height: six feet three inches
Weight: 278 pounds

Pros: has size, has frame large enough to pack on bulk and or muscle; can play defensive end or tackle; played against top shelf competition; demonstrated ability to get to the quarterback.

Cons: not dominant at his position; best season was three years ago; coming off shoulder injury; ultimately may not be worth the pick the team gave up.

Curly R quick take: with Andre Carter anchoring the right side of the defensive line and filling the role of disruptive pass rusher, the Redskins really needed to address the left side of the line. Brian Orakpo may turn out to be the player that makes quarterbacks say oh crappo, the team has already acknowledged that he is not the right profile for an every down left defensive end. Phillip Daniels is 36 and returning from major surgery and boomerang Redskin Renaldo Wynn is 34, the team needed to do something to get younger and get younger with run stopping size and Jeremy may be that player.

The loss of a third round pick in the 2010 draft will not seem like such a big deal if Jeremy can get on the field and play, unlike last year's third round pick, offensive lineman Chad Rinehart. Oh yeah and what Greg says.



Jeremy Jarmon laying one on Florida Gators quarterback Tim Tebow: Getty Images from here. Everybody love to see Tim Tebow take a beating.

Lost Highway Found at Last

We've met before haven't we

More weekend off topic from The Curly R, Friday I picked up my regular copy of The Onion, new issues drop Thursday but arrived too late for me to nab on the way in to Metro and when I went to website for the link to the hilarious story about the Washington Nationals evolving the cliched Kiss Cam into the crowd pleasing Fuck Cam (be sure to link through to the full size image) I saw a link to the AV Club's latest re-review of a new cult classic, this week Scott Tobias ran through the David Lynch masterpiece Lost Highway. This is one of my favorite movies, top twenty if not top ten

At this point I should probably reveal that there is another David Lynch movie in my top ten, Blue Velvet. Knowing this and that other movies among my top ten or twenty are the Gary Oldman vehicles Romeo Is Bleeding and Leon/The Professional, the Crispin Glover-Keanu Reeves pic River's Edge and Christian Bale's American Psycho (still the toughest book I have ever read) should give you some idea of my deranged tastes.

Like David Lynch's later Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway is disjointed and tells a story that is difficult to follow. Bill Pullman plays a musician that may or may not have committed a crime, Patricia Arquette plays two roles, one of which is Bill's character's doomed wife and Robert Blake, in what so far is his last movie role, plays the Mystery Man, taunting Bill's character about something he does not really understand. Check the first video clip in the Onion piece for the seminal moment between the two as the Mystery Man greets Bill's character at a party. I bought the movie soundtrack alone for the background music in this scene.

I saw this movie on its release in 1997 in the theater and then again later on a premium movie channel, there was no other way to see it for the last decade as this movie was not on DVD. Well I am pleased to say Lost Highway has finally been released on DVD and I have already ordered it.

Enjoy your weekend.



Robert Blake as the Mystery Man in Lost Highway from here.

Happy Birthday Chris Cooley

Not afraid to reach for what he wants

Please join me and the entire staff of The Curly R in wishing a happy birthday to Redskins tight end Chris Cooley, Chris turns 27 today.

Chris attended Utah State after a three letter career in high school, Chris played both ways in football, played baseball and was a state champion wrestler. Selected by the Redskins in the third round of the 2004 NFL draft, Chris left college as the receiving leader among tight ends his senior year in 2003, was first team all-Sun Belt Conference and was a Mackey Award finalist.

Immediately Chris was an impact player for the Redskins in Joe Gibbs' first year back as head coach catching 37 passes and six touchdowns, most on the team, in the Year of Max Protect. In 2005 Chris nearly doubled his production with Mark Brunell throwing to him, catching 71 passes and seven touchdowns as the Redskins rolled into the playoffs. Three of those touchdowns came in game fourteen against the Cowboys at Redskins Stadium as Washington beat the snot out of the piece of shit Cowboys.

The 2006 season was a downer for just about everyone on the team, Chris made the best of it by leading the team in catches with 57 and was only 56 yards behind receiver Santana Moss in yards, with whom he tied for the team lead with six touchdown catches.

Before the 2007 season Chris got his due, signing a six year thirty million dollar contract with nine million dollars in bonus, my fears that Chris would get comfy and drop off in production were unfounded as Chris led the team again in receptions, this time with 66 catches, as well as touchdowns with eight as the team rolled into the playoffs again.

Last season in 2008 as the Redskins started 6-2 and finished 2-6 Chris shined, leading the team in receptions with 83 though he only had one touchdown to the chagrin of every fantasy owner that had Chris including one of my neighbors.

In the main Redskins fans will take Chris Cooley over any other tight end in the league right now, he is performing in the upper tier. I am not taking a risk by telling you 2009 should be another great year for Chris.

There is more, so much more about Chris Cooley, you do not need me to tell you, Chris is everywhere, these happy birthday posts for me are about bringing you news and bios of players, coaches and execs you may not otherwise know, Chris is by far the highest profile Redskins player, and has a long and visible career ahead of him after football.

Happy birthday Chris!



Chris Cooley: Getty Images from here.

Happy Birthday John Hastings

Growing em up big and strong

Please join me in wishing Redskins head strength and conditioning coach John Hastings a happy birthday, John turned 45 back on Sunday 5 July.

The upcoming 2009 season will be John's fourth as head strength and conditioning coach and eighth with the team, John's staff is in charge of ensuring players are in peak condition for football, strength, endurance, flexibility and mental toughness are all part of John's game.

John has quite a story, having nearly died from liver disease in 2004, he made it to the top of the transplant list just in time and made an amazing recovery, going through that experience no doubt has given John a different outlook on each day than many of the people around him.

Happy birthday John!



John Hastings from here.

Happy Birthday Chris Wilson

Keep it cool Chris, we can use you

Please join me and the entire staff of The Curly R in wishing Redskins defensive end Chris Wilson a happy birthday, Chris turns 27 today.

Chris hails from Flint Michigan where he often heard he was too small for football so he developed a philosophy of dominating the man in front of him and letting the rest take care of itself. Chris attended and played football 62 miles away at Northwood University, an NCAA Division II school in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) containing teams like Grand Valley State, Ferris State and Tiffin University. His senior year in 2004, the American Football Coaches Association named Chris an All-America, he was also all-GLIAC that season.

With no interest from the NFL Chris found his way to the Canadian Football League, a summer football league currently in week two of its 2009 season, he signed with the British Columbia Lions and was a member of their 2006 Grey Cup championship team asterisk the Grey Cup is the CFL's Super Bowl. That Lions team was so full of bad asses they broke the Cup after the game (op. cit.).

Chris drew the attention of the Redskins in the 2007 offseason and was signed as a free agent. Since coming to Washington Chris has been a situational player, an undersized pass rushing defensive end with a quick first step. In two seasons with the Redskins Chris has registered 27 tackles and five sacks, that is a pretty good ratio, it would appear the defensive coaching staff knows how to use Chris.

So far this offseason with the departure of Marcus Washington Chris has been in transition to a hybrid position, part strong side linebacker and part pass rushing defensive end (op. cit.), it so happens this is the same position first round draft pick Brian Orakpo has been playing, there is as ever for a role player like Chris a great deal of uncertainty about the future in the NFL. Chris knows this and knows all he can do is dominate the man in front of him. Chris Wilson is a Curly R favorite.

Happy birthday Chris!



Chris Wilson: AP photo from here.

Happy Birthday Carlos Rogers

Planted

Please join me in wishing a happy birthday to Redskins cornerback Carlos Rogers, Carlos turned 28 last Thursday the second of July.

After a senior season in which he won the Jim Thorpe Award as the nation's top defensive back, Carlos was picked ninth overall, one the Redskins two first round picks in the 2005 draft, the other being quarterback Jason Campbell, Carlos' Auburn University teammate (War Eagle).

Though he did not unseat incumbent cornerbacks Walt Harris and Shawn Springs, Carlos was the top reserve and with Walt nursing calf and quadriceps inujuries through the preseason, Carlos got his chance to start in game three against the Seahawks. Though battling some injuries of his own, Carlos finished 2005 with 47 tackles and two interceptions.

So convinced were the Redskins that Carlos was shovel ready, the team released Walt Harris in the 2006 offseason, leaving Carlos to team up with Shawn Springs. Unfortunately the 2006 season did not go as expected, with Shawn Springs having preseason surgery on a year old abdominal hernia, missing seven games and really being effective in only about six. Forced into the primary cornerback role too soon, Carlos was overmatched and had such a tough time in 2006 that I even offered to buy him flan if he would just catch an interception.

The 2007 season saw Washington re sign boomerang Redskin cornerback Fred Smoot and the trio of Shawn, Carlos and Fred started out hot and helped the team to a 4-2 record before Carlos tore his ACL and MCL in a collision with linebacker London Fletcher in game seven, the massacre by the Patriots, and his season was over. He was not on the field for the playoff run.

After a surprisingly quick rehabiliation Carlos was back for the 2008 season and there is simply no arguing that Carlos was playing at a Pro Bowl level for the first six or so games, the team began to slow down before heading off the 2-6 cliff and by the end of the season all the cornerbacks were victim to the classic let's see what we've got for next season syndrome as the Redskins tried to figure out between Carlos, Shawn Springs and midseason pickup DeAngelo Hall who was going to be with the team next year. With Carlos a known quantity, Shawn's contract expensive and DeAngelo a candidate for free agency signing, Carlos ended 2008 on the bench.

Washington released Shawn Springs in this, the 2009 offseason and signed DeAngelo to a long term contract, Carlos and DeAngelo enter this season as incumbents and with Carlos unsigned beyond this season, my hope is he will find contract year motivation, turn in a great performance and sign his own deal to stay in town a few more years.

Happy birthday Carlos!



Carlos Rogers planting Cowboys receiver Patrick Crayton in the last Washington-Dallas game at Cowboys Stadium: Reuters Pictures from here.

Happy Birthday Pete Kendall

For two seasons Pete had Jason's back despite playing in front

Please join me in wishing former and hopefully future Redskins left guard Pete Kendall a happy birthday, Pete turns 36 today.

After the departure of future boomerang Redskin left guard Derrick Dockery to the Buffalo Bills after the 2006 season and the subsequent failure of the Todd Wade Experiment in 2007 training camp, Washington shelled out what turned out to be a fourth round draft pick to the New York Jets for unhappy left guard Pete Kendall.

Pete was given a raise and moved into the starting position immediately. And all Pete did was start every single one of his 32 games in Washington. Pete was especially effective in run blocking, at one point early last season as right guard Randy Thomas continued to recover from his 2007 triceps injury and Stephon Heyer and Jon Jansen teamed up to bungle the right guard position it was almost like a punchline how much the Redskins were running to the left, Dillweed or someone else out there has the numbers, it was classic Redskins: we are running to the left, you know we are running to the left, we know you know and you know we know you know and you still can't stop us.

Derrick Dockery came back from Buffalo this offseason and Pete's contract expired. As far as I know Pete is still looking for a starting, job, well it is second week of July and Pete is still on the street, if I were his agent I would be exhorting him to pick up the phone and see if the Redskins are still on the market for depth at left guard. Pete could extend his career and the Redskins could be set for a couple of seasons along the Offensive Line of Great Uncertainty.

Happy birthday Pete!



Pete Kendall and Jason Campbell: DB King from here, DB is a local photog with an incredible stream on Flickr and a photo blog here.