2018 Signings & Roster Moves

SDGuy73 said:

Browns trade Jason McCourty and a 2018 7th round pick to the Pats. Browns get thePats 2018 6th round pick. NFLN reports.

Pats are collecting twins.

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BigKen said:

Right now Butler and Solder look like 3rd round compensatory picks. Dion Lewis could be a 4th most likely a 5th.
Amendola might be a 7th. Won't know for sure until the league mathematicians beat the crap out of their abacuses.

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BigKen said:

Right now Butler and Solder look like 3rd round compensatory picks. Dion Lewis could be a 4th most likely a 5th.
Amendola might be a 7th. Won't know for sure until the league mathematicians beat the crap out of their abacuses.

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Shoeshine Boy said:

Jeremy Hill, Matt Tobin, and Adrian Clayborn are all Pats.

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BigKen said:

No one in the Boston media wants to do anything that would piss off BB or the Krafts and letting out info like this a year before Butler either signed or left could be a problem. I wrote in several threads last year that he was offered a decent contract but I never had the numbers. Tom Curran of NBCSB hinted that MB was offered a really good contract but he was pissed that he didn't get Gilmore's money. The big difference is that MB played great after his SB heroics for one year. He wanted to renegotiate his rookie contract and BB told him that he'd have his chance after that contract expired and that the Patriots would pay him fair.

Malcolm Butler started burning his bridges two years ago. He was pissed that the Pats would not renegotiate the contract in his third year and he worse this past year getting $4.1M instead of Gilmore's $14M even though he had one year left. Now we find out that the money was excellent. $11M instead of $4M. No matter how much he makes, he'll never ever make up that $7M he turned down. That tells me that he and his agent are stupid.

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   "Cornerback Malcolm Butler scored a jaw-dropping five-year deal for more than $61 million and $30 million guaranteed, per NFL Network's Ian Rapoport. The Titans also snagged running back Dion Lewis on a much more reasonable contract ($20 million, with $3 million in incentives, per NFL Network's Mike Garafolo). Similar to the value Logan Ryan got last year from the Titans (three years, $30 million), Butler's contract is a vast overpay for an average cornerback.
   
   Butler allowed 54 percent of targets thrown his way to be completed in man coverage for 510 yards, five touchdowns and three penalties in 2017. That's the NFL's fifth-most yards allowed, and he'll be across from Adoree' Jackson, who also gave up similar totals in man assignments. This cornerback group has a lot invested in it, but it's an average unit talent-wise—unless Jackson takes a massive year-two leap."
   

Yankee Traveler said:

Malcolm Brown and Danny Shelton, on the defensive line, along with Dorsett, all first round picks from 2015.

WR's Dorsett, Cooks and Britt, from '15, '14 and '09 first round picks.
Gilmore from '12.
Hightower from '12
McCourty from '10

That is a lot of first round talent.

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Southieinnc said:

Ranking the NFL's Worst Early Free-Agency Moves

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   "Cornerback Malcolm Butler scored a jaw-dropping five-year deal for more than $61 million and $30 million guaranteed, per NFL Network's Ian Rapoport. The Titans also snagged running back Dion Lewis on a much more reasonable contract ($20 million, with $3 million in incentives, per NFL Network's Mike Garafolo). Similar to the value Logan Ryan got last year from the Titans (three years, $30 million), Butler's contract is a vast overpay for an average cornerback.
   
   Butler allowed 54 percent of targets thrown his way to be completed in man coverage for 510 yards, five touchdowns and three penalties in 2017. That's the NFL's fifth-most yards allowed, and he'll be across from Adoree' Jackson, who also gave up similar totals in man assignments. This cornerback group has a lot invested in it, but it's an average unit talent-wise—unless Jackson takes a massive year-two leap."

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