Mayhew may franchise Suh

[broncosmitty]

It does count. Horseshoes, hand grenades, kindergarten and DBM Power Rankings.

 

[TwoCents22]

"Because Johnson is under contract longer (five years compared to three), the Lions could free up a maximum of $9.3 million in cap space by restructuring his deal. Doing the same with Stafford creates approximately $5.75 million.

The obvious downside with restructuring is that it increases future cap hits. Using the Johnson example, it would increase his cap hit $2.63 million the next five years, adding to an already astronomical $24 million cap hit in 2016. It would increase Stafford's cap hits by $2.67 million in 2016 and 2017."

-Justin Rogers, Mlive

I am definitely more against restructuring Calvin. Stafford, not worried about taking advantage of all the $5.75 million in cap relief his restructure would provide.

 

[broncosmitty]

Calvin definitely does not need to be restructured or extended.

If someone would like to shoot up the DBM Power Rankings, they could elaborately disagree.

 

[TwoCents22]

I would not be surprised if Mayhew is shopping Calvin for a 1st round pick. Crazy as that sounds, I wouldn't be against it.

 

[Gulf of Brazil]

NO Way In Hell should Mayhew even attempt at thinking of re-structuring Calvin. We're at the point now, that if he continues to have injury issues, he could very well be a cap savings cut in 2016. He has a current projected cap hit right now for 2016 at 24 MM with roughly 12.9 dead $$ and a cap savings of slightly over 11 MM....

 

[Gulf of Brazil]

I would not be surprised if Mayhew is shopping Calvin for a 1st round pick. Crazy as that sounds, I wouldn't be against it.

.........with everything you stated







wait for it......... here come all the.... WTF, U Craaaayzy..... Calvin all world..... best ever... this team won't win without.... It just might be the best thing to help ole Staffy improve, seems as though he still loves to target CJ 1st when other wr's are open or can be thrown open...... JMDAO

 

[broncosmitty]

Im gonna bow out of this before either of you get death threats.

But I'll say this, he won't make it thru his current contract. Cut, traded, whatever. The snowball is already rolling down the mountainside..... there's no stopping the inevitable.

 

[Gulf of Brazil]

BRING IT ON !!!!!!! (all the threats)


what, you don't provide back-up ?


oh shit, I was part of the inclusion....forgot

 

[broncosmitty]

Back up will be provided.

Just not instigation of threats.

 

[TwoCents22]

I read an article from last year that said without any modification to Suhs rookie contract, his final year would be $16 mil. That means we would have been able to franchise him for just over $19 this year, and for about $23 next year(just over what we paid him last year). That'd be nice to have that kind of leverage.

 

[broncosmitty]

But what we have done without Reggie Bush? Hahaha

Fuckin' Mayhew....

 

[Old Lion]

I am not ready to give up on Megatron yet, but I agree I would not restructure him at his age.

 

[Rollingthndr]

Enough with the restructures. They are already going to lose one of the best players in the NFL because of it. Wouldn't that be enough to teach these dumb asses a lesson? If not, they all deserve to be fired.... End of discussion.

 

[gvsulaker82]

I think most are in agreement with that. What's fun to talk about is the "what if" scenarios if they can't get him resigned. I assure you they aren't going to just let him walk.

The "what if" scenarios might be somebody like Revis. What would his impact be if added to our D if we used the funds available there if Suh was lost. What about someone on the o-line without having to use an early draft pick and instead used it on another DT. Resigning Fairley and Mosley to go with that pick, etc. Would that relegate us to the same ol Lions defense??

I would prefer drafting most of the talent and building around suh even with it being so costly. I would be crushed if suh left so its hard to stomach the what if scenarios. Letting suh go would be a worst move than drafting ebron was, and I was very against ebron before the draft as I think most of us were. I dont think a combination of revis and fairley would be the same ol lions defense but the d wouldnt be as good. Ill take suh, george johnson, ziggy and mosley on the dline, draft offensive line, LB and cb. Let tully, bush, fairley, raiola go. Besides the ebron pick the lions have done fairly well drafting recently.

 

[gvsulaker82]

CJ is at the point where the lions should legitimately consider shopping him for the right price before he is no longer in demand. Of course tha once again leaves them with a huge hole at WR, which has been a problem before this year dating back to the perriman, moore, morton days. I cannot wait until they beef up that oline in the draft.

 

[Gulf of Brazil]

^^^ winner above

 

[gvsulaker82]

Enough with the restructures. They are already going to lose one of the best players in the NFL because of it. Wouldn't that be enough to teach these dumb asses a lesson? If not, they all deserve to be fired.... End of discussion.

They wont lose him, I believe they will use the franchise tag as leverage on suh in order to retain him.

 

[TrustMeIamRight]

They wont lose him, I believe they will use the franchise tag as leverage on suh in order to retain him.

That only solves the problem for one year. Do you think they would tag him the next year for 31 million? I believe it goes up 20%.

All it'd do is give Suh a monster one year deal and then he can hit the FA market again, if no teams are willing to give up 2 first rounders for him or they structure the deal to where the Lions can't match it.

 

[LPinSLC]

There is the possibility that CJ would take a pay cut in order to help the team remain competitive. I haven't heard anything but CJ seems like a guy that wants to win.

 

[broncosmitty]

That only solves the problem for one year. Do you think they would tag him the next year for 31 million? I believe it goes up 20%.

All it'd do is give Suh a monster one year deal and then he can hit the FA market again, if no teams are willing to give up 2 first rounders for him or they structure the deal to where the Lions can't match it.

He'd count less against the cap the second time he's tagged than the first time this year. Im not saying its likely to happen or anything. Just that it wouldn't be as big of a splurge as this year would.