Matt Forte

[R.J. MacReady]

I figured I would just post the name and see how long it would take for some contract/cap guru to rip me a new one.

 

[PDay8810]

the cap experts have all left the building

 

[fordman84]

You all know I'm a big fan of this, depending on the price. I've been suggesting this for a while now, but I have no idea what our cap room looks like at this point.

 

[ArlingtonCowboys100]

No thanks. Teams are stacking the box with weeden in there. Forte won't fix things. That butler play could have been there all night if he did not pull hamstring.

 

[ArlingtonCowboys100]

But I can see why people want forte,as randle stinks

 

[GNG]

No thanks. Teams are stacking the box with weeden in there. Forte won't fix things. That butler play could have been there all night if he did not pull hamstring.

The team will struggle without a decent QB regardless of whether or not they get a quality RB. Romo's injury has devastated the team.

 

[jarntt]

To trade for Forte isn't a cap problem unless you are worried about the carry over into next year - he will eat up a lot of the excess cap we have right now. He is in the last year of his contract and pending Hardy's ultimate cap hit based on the incentives he hits, we can likely fit Forte without doing anything. Signing him long term is a cap problem because it's the same thing we had with Murray and believe what you want, but the main reason we didn't sign Murray was the cap. So, why give up a 2nd rounder and pay Forte $7M this year and then give him $40M going forward? He's not better than Murray except for on 3rd down and Murray wouldn't have cost us a 2nd rounder.

 

[UK Cowboy]

To trade for Forte isn't a cap problem unless you are worried about the carry over into next year - he will eat up a lot of the excess cap we have right now. He is in the last year of his contract and pending Hardy's ultimate cap hit based on the incentives he hits, we can likely fit Forte without doing anything. Signing him long term is a cap problem because it's the same thing we had with Murray and believe what you want, but the main reason we didn't sign Murray was the cap. So, why give up a 2nd rounder and pay Forte $7M this year and then give him $40M going forward? He's not better than Murray except for on 3rd down and Murray wouldn't have cost us a 2nd rounder.

The 2nd rounder is out of the question. A 4th rounder, provided the Bears pay part of his salary would work for me. He still has it

 

[fordman84]

Yeah I wouldn't pay a 2nd rounder for a rental. If he had another year left, then sure. But to get probably 6 games out of him, I wouldn't give up higher than a 4th. If the Bears,or their fans reading that, don't like it then keep him. We wouldn't value him any higher than that.

 

[jarntt]

I'd do a 4th and pay the rest of his salary for this year even without Chi chipping in. But, I'm not going to say our problem is only the RBs and that getting Forte puts us back where we were last year in the running game.

 

[ROMOTOOWENS]

If we were at full strength then yes. Romo out 5 more. DEz who knows. I don't think you do that. Just my opinion.

 

[fordman84]

If we were at full strength then yes. Romo out 5 more. DEz who knows. I don't think you do that. Just my opinion.

Even if we traded for him today, by the time he were up to speed and actually knowing the playbook would be at least 2 weeks. That would put him on a timeline to return around the Miami game when Romo could be back. Dez might be back around that time as well.