First off, let me say that I highly dislike Hawkblogger. A LOT. I don't read his stuff at all. Dude is full of himself beyond belief. Still won't let the Flynn thing go. And now it sounds as if he has a new axe to grind in the name of inflating his ego and know-it-all nature. I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Dude is nothing special. Only reason he gets the attention he does is his relationship with Softy. And if you ever get a chance to meet the guy, don't. That is unless you want to be condescended upon by the biggest prima donna "fan" I've ever met. I'm not big on stuck up ego maniacs to begin with. But when it's clear that they'd rather be right than admit they're wrong when it's good for the Hawks, I got zero time.
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All that said, a blogger/twitterer that I do in fact respect, Davis Hsu, has been on the exact same train for most of the preseason. He is huge on rolling over $ for next year. His ideal target is rolling over $6 million. Has pointed out guys like MRob, McQuistan, Farwell, and Maragos as all possible targets. Hsu has been on a mission trying to wave the MRob can easily be cut flag. A big part of it by touting how much the Hawks like Spencer Ware. You could tell that getting a ton of fans responding "MROB WILL NEVER BE CUT!!!" on Twitter only fueled his agenda. But as of just the other day, he relented, admitting that it's probably pretty likely that the Hawks will end up keeping 5 rb's. See, that's the difference between Davis and the other dude. Davis' opinions are 100% football based. Hawkblogger's are 60% football, 40 ego. I'll say it again. There's a ton of vastly superior "Hawk bloggers" out there that don't get the same amount of notice. You're much better off finding them.
As for my own thoughts on MRob being cut. I can understand where people are coming from. The arguments of leadership being overrated are an easy straw man debate. But here's the thing. You don't have any other actual fullbacks on the roster right now. Sure, you got young guys with potential like Ware and Coleman. But as of this moment, neither has done anything for the team to hand over one of it's key starting positions for the entire season to such inexperienced players. For how run focused this team is, do you really think they'd be that haphazard with one of the key blocking aspects of it? Especially when they're already thin in regards of blocking tight ends? And for all the hype and talk of Ware being the player to take over for Robinson, the team has almost primarily used him at halfback this preseason. If the team was considering cutting Robinson, don't you think they'd be playing Ware at fullback at ton right now? If we're going off this preseason, Ware is looking more like a possible future replacement for Lynch than he does MRob.
One last thing on Robinson. I get the whole "leadership is overrated" argument. I really do. And I think it's safe to say that Pete believes in his young guys to step up and pick up the slack whenever it loses one of it's leaders. I was skeptical when he got rid of Hass, Tatupu, and Milloy all in one fail swoop. But we've seen a great example of how the vacuum gets filled if you have a good team. That all said, I think Michael Robinson is a little different of a case. He doesn't just bring the locker room, side line, pre-game pep talk leadership that we all know he does. He also plays a big role in the offensive huddle. It's been well documented the role he plays in helping diagnose defensive schemes and making reads. Being a former qb, he is able to help RW a lot. And as amazing as RW is, he's still a young qb learning and developing. I think it would be a mistake to take that away from him this season. You don't dump a player who does all of that plus is your special teams captain just to save a million or so bucks on next year's cap.
Or maybe you do, and we're all wrong, and we'll have Hawkblogger rubbing our faces in it all season while he roots for Matt Flynn to light it up in Oakland and prove him right on that too.
