Mike Shaw released by Redskins

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May 4th, 2012 at 2:41 PM
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snoopblue
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Mike Shaw released by Redskins

http://www.annarbor.com/sports/um-football/former-michigan-tailback-mike-shaw-released-on-first-day-of-redskins-rookie-minicamp/

He gets released on the FIRST DAY of rookie mini-camp?! Unless something was very wrong, that seems like an extremely classless and unfair move by the Redskins given that most other teams have already started their mini-camps so it will probably be too late for Shaw to get picked up elsewhere.

I  really don't like coach oompa loompa, he invented getting super red on the sidelines before Brian Kelly made it cool. 

Hopefully Shaw can find a team that hasn't started camp yet and still has an interest or need. If he does, he can BOUNCE on over. He's good at that.

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May 4th, 2012 at 2:44 PM | You automatically assume (Score:4 Normal)
jg2112
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You automatically assume Washington has done something wrong. It may very well be Shaw's fault.

Just treat it as a non-event and let's move on.

May 4th, 2012 at 2:48 PM | Seems weird (Score:2)
PurpleStuff
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You would have to think either their personnel office is totally screwed up (I wouldn't put it past the 'Skins) and they literally signed too many guys and had to tell somebody to go home or that he did something to immediately piss them off (mouthing off, tardiness, drinking a cold brew in the huddle).

It is spelled HOKEAMANIA.  Our coach is an ass-kicking American citizen, not one of the Beatles, for Christ's sake!

May 4th, 2012 at 3:02 PM | Maybe . . . (Score:5 Normal)
InterM
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he fumbled the playbook?  Ran straight into the camp security guard instead of going around him?  Showed up in a Cowboys jersey?

May 4th, 2012 at 3:43 PM | Just like Willie Mays Hayes (Score:3 Normal)
UMdad
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May 4th, 2012 at 3:44 PM | Automatically assuming the (Score:5 Normal)
chitownblue2
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Automatically assuming the Redskins did something stupid is my default setting.

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May 4th, 2012 at 3:50 PM | Oh, Mike SHAW! (Score:2)
InterM
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We thought we got a steal on an undrafted Mike Floyd.  Or was it Mike Martin?  One of those Mike guys, anyway.

May 4th, 2012 at 2:47 PM | Ya, oompa loompas are bad. (Score:1)
ThatOneGuy
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Ya, oompa loompas are bad.

May 4th, 2012 at 2:50 PM | Really? (Score:5 Normal)
Baldbill
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I thought that if we were wise we should listen to them.

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May 4th, 2012 at 2:47 PM | That's one more day in the (Score:5 Normal)
Run 2 Daylight
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That's one more day in the NFL than anyone really expected. 

Go Blue!

May 4th, 2012 at 2:51 PM | Hard to tell why you'd be cut (Score:3 Normal)
HopeInHoke
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Hard to tell why you'd be cut on first day...

Hopefully he can find a home somewhere- but I personally think his chances are slim- hope
I'm wrong!

May 4th, 2012 at 2:54 PM | WTF (Score:5 Normal)
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This from the team that banked their entire future on RG3 and then wasted a pick on Kork when they had many pressing needs.  Can't say I'm surprised by anything move they pull.

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May 4th, 2012 at 3:32 PM | I gotta say, while I agree on RG3, I disagree (Score:0 Overrated)
May 4th, 2012 at 3:40 PM | But they're a team that needs (Score:3 Insightful)
WolvinLA2
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But they're a team that needs more than just a starting QB to be good, and they had few high-ish picks after RG3.   It's one thing to pick up another QB late in the draft when you have other needs taken care of, but they took Cousins with their third(!) pick. 

I disagree that he'll be good trade bait in the future.  The only way they trade him is if RG3 is good and Cousins never plays.  Who is going to give up anything decent for a guy who a year or two from now is 25 with no in-game experience?  The 2013 draft will be much deeper at QB and after then he'll be completely forgotten about, when the Redskins could have had a solid defensive player or receiver instead.

May 4th, 2012 at 4:07 PM | False.  The common ingredient (Score:1)
CLord
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False.  The common ingredient to most of the flame outs like Leaf and Smith is they had rocks between their ears.  RG3 is one sharp kid.  Absent injury I see no way he will be a flame out.  At worst, he'll struggle picking up D packages for a bit, but I see this guy being a solid, Vick-like starter for a long while.

May 4th, 2012 at 2:55 PM | Do they even practice (as (Score:1)
mackbru
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Do they even practice (as opposed to just stretch, warm-up, get physicals, etc) on the first day? I don't think so. Could be he just showed up gimpy, heavy, or somesuch. Otherwise, I can't imagine they'd have enough info to cut him cold.

May 4th, 2012 at 3:00 PM | Maybe he failed a (Score:5 Normal)
MaizeNBlu628
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Maybe he failed a physical...or more likely, jacked Kurk Cousins in the face when he got there, then thinking his job was done, left.

May 4th, 2012 at 3:12 PM | I don't care that you spelled (Score:1 Redundant)
CorkyCole
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I don't care that you spelled Kirk's name wrong. That image in my head made me laugh out loud (at work, mind you). You could have got me into trouble.

In conclusion, +1.

May 4th, 2012 at 10:25 PM | No laughing at work? (Score:2)
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I'm curious to know what your work environment is like. Mime's cannot laugh out loud at work. Are you a mime?

May 5th, 2012 at 12:58 AM | Mime? Yes. (Score:1)
CorkyCole
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Actually no, but when you are sitting in your own office and then burst out laughing in a realm of silence with a handful of offices around you, it wouldn't take much to come up with the conclusion that something unrelated to work prompted me to laugh out loud.  Also, 90% of my workload is done via computer, so assumptions can be made.

I guess I must add that reading mgoblog during work hours would be frowned upon by my superiors.  

May 4th, 2012 at 3:06 PM | Too bad.  I think he could (Score:1)
Rather be on BA
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Too bad.  I think he could make it in NFL Europe, or in Canada.

May 4th, 2012 at 3:14 PM | NFL Europe doesn't exist (Score:2)
aaamichfan
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NFL Europe doesn't exist anymore. 

May 4th, 2012 at 3:26 PM | Well then, I guess the fact (Score:1)
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Well then, I guess the fact that I didn't even know that shows why it was ended in the first place.

May 4th, 2012 at 3:08 PM | Brian Kelly (Score:1)
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has never made anything cool, especially with his asinine sidline antics

May 4th, 2012 at 3:16 PM | Maybe they took the wrong (Score:2 Normal)
aaamichfan
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Maybe they took the wrong Mike Shaw?

Considering that he had maybe 40 carries in his whole college career, it doesn't really seem like a team would take him intentionally.

May 4th, 2012 at 3:31 PM | Carries (Score:1)
M - Flightsci
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I'm pretty sure he had more than 40 carries in a single season.  Probably well over a hundred for his career... enough to show a team something, even if it is running laterally very quickly or fumbling a few times.

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May 4th, 2012 at 4:13 PM | You are correct.  He actually (Score:1)
MichiWolv
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You are correct.  He actually AVERAGED over 40 carries per season and finished with 190 for 1,001yds.  Unless of course one were to blackout the entire RR era, in which case Shaw only had 31 carries for 199yds

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May 4th, 2012 at 3:34 PM | (No subject) (Score:5 Normal)
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May 4th, 2012 at 5:04 PM | And the winner is... (Score:1)
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bama blue Warhol!

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May 4th, 2012 at 11:07 PM | ha! (Score:1)
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nice!

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May 4th, 2012 at 3:52 PM | Is he a former NFL'er? (Score:2)
Jeff4179
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Can he now refer to himself as a "former Washington Redskin?"

May 4th, 2012 at 4:56 PM | "Son, let me tell you about (Score:2)
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"Son, let me tell you about my NFL career..."

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May 4th, 2012 at 5:01 PM | Hmmm (Score:1)
Tater
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My take is that it was a pretty fucking classless move on Washington's part.  Hopefully, he catches on somewhere else.

 

 

 

May 4th, 2012 at 5:15 PM | They dont even practice the (Score:1)
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They dont even practice the first day. It may have been medical related. I have a friend who was released by Baltimore after X-rays came back on his ankle. He broke his ankle on HS and then never had anymore injury issues in college. He said the initial physical is pretty extensive. They basically x ray your whole body to make sure you don't have any injury issues.

May 4th, 2012 at 5:24 PM | He will catch on in the CFL (Score:1)
snoopblue
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He will catch on in the CFL or AFL or UFL or something.

May 4th, 2012 at 6:23 PM | This is not a surprise (Score:1)
vablue
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I hate the redskins as much as anyone, but it was a miracle Shaw even got a look for one practice.  Shaw seemed like a good guy and I am glad that he wore the maize and blue, but his resume does not exactly scream NFL.  As another poster said, he made to one more NFL practice than most of the people that have ever played football. 

May 4th, 2012 at 8:56 PM | Didn't think he would last (Score:1)
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Didn't think he would last long. Might have a good CFL career.

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May 5th, 2012 at 5:55 AM | Either Medical related, or a classless move from Washington (Score:2)
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Either way, Shaw will surely BOUNCE back

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