Dan Williams Gone?

[Sharkonabicycle]

WTF? I thought he was one of the standout players for the Cards defense and he was healthy all last year. Cards' fans thoughts on this?

 

[Davis_Mike]

WTF? I thought he was one of the standout players for the Cards defense and he was healthy all last year. Cards' fans thoughts on this?

I think most of us assumed he wouldn't be back. He is a great run stopper. But he is a NT & only played like 25% of the snaps in 2014. With much of the league heading towards more spread out passing offense, there is no reason to pay a guy $6 mil AAV to play 25% of the snaps. The Cardinals were willing to to sign him for about $3 mil AAV but knew that there were a few teams with a lot of money to spend who would be targeting Williams.

He is strictly a run stuffing NT. A good player but not worth the price tag. We signed two good players(Peters & Redding) who will each individually play more snaps than Williams, for less than what Raiders are paying Williams.

 

[Sharkonabicycle]

I think most of us assumed he wouldn't be back. He is a great run stopper. But he is a NT & only played like 25% of the snaps in 2014. With much of the league heading towards more spread out passing offense, there is no reason to pay a guy $6 mil AAV to play 25% of the snaps. The Cardinals were willing to to sign him for about $3 mil AAV but knew that there were a few teams with a lot of money to spend who would be targeting Williams.

He is strictly a run stuffing NT. A good player but not worth the price tag. We signed two good players(Peters & Redding) who will each individually play more snaps than Williams, for less than what Raiders are paying Williams.

Gotcha thanks. Didn't know he was playing that limited but makes sense.

 

[Davis_Mike]

Gotcha thanks. Didn't know he was playing that limited but makes sense.

Yeah, he is strictly a run stuffing NT & is one of the best run in the NFL. But with the amount of passing teams do now, he is relegated to about 25-30% of the snaps on def. He is there to clog up the middle, which he does well, but that is all he does. Ss mainly the starter, he only has 2 career sacks in 5 seasons.

 

[Davis_Mike]

Here is Williams statement on signing with the Raiders.

He was always a quiet classy guy.

 

[Davis_Mike]

Gotcha thanks. Didn't know he was playing that limited but makes sense.

I had it wrong, he played 37% of the snaps last season. $6 mil is still too much to pay for a part time player.

 

[Sharkonabicycle]

I had it wrong, he played 37% of the snaps last season. $6 mil is still too much to pay for a part time player.

Yah agreed.

 

[Arizona_Sting]

WTF? I thought he was one of the standout players for the Cards defense and he was healthy all last year. Cards' fans thoughts on this?

Pretty much what Mike said. I wasn't shocked and saw it coming… his role was being slowly diminished each of the past 3 seasons here. He's solid, but I'm glad we didn't overpay to bring him back.