shopson67
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The article has Drew Bennett for the Rams, but could just as easily be Jared Cook or Jake Long.
Would you trade Chris Ivory + Malik Jackson for Suh?
I sure as hell would. But Jacksonville is essentially paying slightly more money for those two than Miami will pay for Suh.
Jacksonville HAD to spend money. They were dangerously close to not meeting the salary floor. From that perspective neither Ivory or Jackson are really that bad for them.
There is a million and one ways to spend money in the NFL. Obviously they needed to add some players simply from a talent perspective but all the teams that were flirting with that floor (thinking Jack and Oak) could have just invited in their young QB's into their office and front loaded a long term deal and they would have been more than enough to get over the floor.
This and the DT contract show a seismic shift in NFL philosophy. It used to be LT was one of the most important positions. It's not even close anymore. DT, DE (or OLB in 3-4), and CB have all surpassed it in positional importance and you only have to look at the money teams are handing out to see that.
It actually makes the selection of Tunsil as the #1 overall pick a little more iffy than it would have been even just 4 or 5 years ago.
Except they can't. CBA precludes them from redoing their contract before the end of their 4th season.
Completely agree. Although I think part of the problem is that there is a dearth of really good LTs in the league. And spending 12 mill per on an average LT simply doesn't make sense.
I think the problem is that there haven't been many early pick LTs that have been big hits. Tyron Smith?
Good point.
But you get my point. They could have brought in Julius Thomas and turned money from future years into a roster bonus and did that till they got there. Moving money around to get over a cap floor or get under a cap ceiling isn't all that tough.
I actually think the decline of the LT has more to do with the DE's we see. Other than a handful of guys, no one can block these monsters we are seeing consistently without a chip from a RB or a TE. But a lot of guys can do it somewhat consistently if you give them a chip. So rather than try and find the one of the handful of guys that can do it all by themselves, the NFL is just designing their offenses around giving help and then using their money to go find one of those monster pass rushers so the opposing teams to try and figure out how to block them.
Joey Galloway & Roy Williams.
Apparently the Cowboys decided that Draft picks meant nothing. I hated both of those moves.
Good topic. I couldn't think of one for the Steelers that was truly awful until I looked at the article, since they don't sign many free agents as a rule. That center Mahan was bad, but not really a killer. Looking at some of the other multiple horrid signings, I'm glad they just kind of dabble in it a bit.
Duce Staley ended up being a bad signing. I think it was something like 5 years/$14 million. Not many awful FA signings for Pittsburgh thankfully.Good topic. I couldn't think of one for the Steelers that was truly awful until I looked at the article, since they don't sign many free agents as a rule. That center Mahan was bad, but not really a killer. Looking at some of the other multiple horrid signings, I'm glad they just kind of dabble in it a bit.
Duce Staley ended up being a bad signing. I think it was something like 5 years/$14 million. Not many awful FA signings for Pittsburgh thankfully.
Pats had a couple in the past, Heyensworth, Chad Goldtooth, stuff like that. Fortunately they do these terrible things without breaking the bank.