Cards snag Veldheer from Raiders

[RobBase]

The Baltimore Sun reports the Cardinals are expected to sign free agent LT Jared Veldheer to a contract worth $7 million to $7.5 million per year.

MI man. Nice pick up. Kinda a shocker imo.

 

[Davis_Mike]

The Baltimore Sun is the only outlet reporting this. Everyone else is just retweeting their tweet. Nothing on this from Cardinals beat writers except the retweets. It can't become official till Tuesday afternoon. I'll wait till we get conformation of a verbal agreement from Cardinals sources before I get excited.

For what it is worth, I had Jared Veldheer as the top LT target for the Cardinals back in late January. I would be ecstatic if his signing comes to fruition.

 

[Jonas_steven]

If this is true, I am ecstatic! Where will that put us with the cap and signing dansby, mike?

 

[johnson]

If this happens, I think Dansby is probably gone. He's going to test the market and someone is going to offer him more than AZ can/will. And then we'll be hoping he just loves AZ so much he'll still sign here anyways.

 

[CakesW]

For one....nobody can sign until Tuesday... So it's all crap at this point.


Cards are about 20.Million under cap, they can easily afford both Dansby and Veldeheer if they wanted to.

 

[Davis_Mike]

After the Jay Feely resigning, that puts us at $21,212,588 minus his salary when it gets reported. I would say we are in the $19 mil range.

There is more than enough money to pay both Veldheer & Dansby. The problem is that the cardinals shouldn't pay Dansby anymore than the 2 years at $10-12 mil that had been previously reported as the cardinals offer. As good as he was, you let him walk if he wants anymore than that.

It goes without saying that more than a few of us were saying Dansby is all about the $$$ & would likely bolt for more money if he had the opportunity.

 

[CakesW]

That's still big money for Dansbys age, position and Talent.


Problem is the Dquell Jackson contract, which was by all accounts horribly stupid.

Irsay is flaming out....

 

[Davis_Mike]

Hopefully this happens in the next hour or so.

 

[CakesW]

Bingo !

There it is....

5 year deal worth 35 Million...

LOVE IT !!!

Absolutley love it.... he's young, has talent, and came at a very reasonable rate.

 

[Jonas_steven]

Bingo !

There it is....

5 year deal worth 35 Million...

LOVE IT !!!

Absolutley love it.... he's young, has talent, and came at a very reasonable rate.

He'll yeah! That is actually a great contract structure as well! Nicely done boys!

 

[Arizona_Sting]

Awesome pickup.

 

[sunsguns]

TREMENDOUS PICK-UP ! and GREAT BANG FOR THE BUCK !

 

[Davis_Mike]

Veldheer's cap hit for 2014 is only $2.5 mil. What a deal for the cardinals.

 

[Scooby-Doo]

It's nice to have a GM that "gets it" Excellent signing.

 

[Davis_Mike]

Without a doubt, AZ got the best LT that hit the market & also got the best value for their $$$.