Is Time Running Out For K Rob?

Yesterday I mentioned that John Clayton did in fact say that he expected Chad Brown to be cut no later than Tuesday and that Koren Robinson will not be with the team by the time training camp opens up, because Koren's participation in the voluntary camp going on right now is "spotty workout attendance". As a result, Ruskell and Holmgren have met twice in the last month just to discuss Koren Robinson.

Even after giving an interview with Seahawks.com where he once again said all the right things and talked about his mother and son moving in with him to keep him focused, it seems that K Rob is once again up to his old ways. (Don't say I didn't warn you).

I also used the shout out box yesterday to talk about some rumors and about an article that was posted at the .net site (available to members only) I thought it only fair that I should follow it up with the story itself since there were several questions asked which were not properly answered by me. The trouble is I don't have membership privileges there (and never likely will because I don't believe in paying for information that should be free to everyone, which is why I won't subsribe to espn insider), anyway, here is the article I referred to yesterday. (Don't ask me how I got it).



Time Running Out?
by Doug Farrar of Seahawks.NET, April 17, 2005 at 12:36am ET

Seahawks.NET has learned from Scout.com’s Lane Adkins that the Seahawk future of WR Koren Robinson could be very much in doubt.

As first discussed by ESPN’s John Clayton on his Saturday morning KJR radio show, the Seahawks are suffering through renewed distress with Robinson’s history of indifference – and with new Team President Tim Ruskell firmly in charge, the reaction to Robinson’s antics may be changing. Clayton’s claim that Robinson has missed the occasional team workout in 2005 is unconfirmed by any other source at this time, but Adkins says that Ruskell and head coach Mike Holmgren – long Robinson’s staunchest defender – have met on two separate occasions recently to discuss Robinson’s fate. The team is reportedly on the verge of making a move. The odds of Robinson being released outright are very low, but it appears that the team has finally had enough.

Robinson has been benched several times over the last two years by Holmgren for missing practices and team meetings , and he served a four-game suspension mandated by the NFL last season for violations of the league’s substance abuse policy. Holmgren has said that Robinson spent some of the off-season in a rehab facility, although it is not known how this has progressed.

One move involving Robinson that has been discussed by many is the possibility of a trade involving Washington Redskins WR Rod Gardner. Adkins says that Gardner either does not want to ink a new deal/extension with Washington or he is seeking #1 receiver compensation, which he is not going to receive. Gardner caught 51 balls in 2004, but dropped 9 more…which would make any Seahawks fan, long weary of their own receivers’ issues in the drop department, wonder why Seattle would wish to make what would amount to a one-year deal with Gardner. The two possible upsides are that Gardner would essentially be playing in a “walk year” situation, and that unlike Robinson, he’d at least show up to practices and team meetings on time – or at all.