I love dumb ass responses like this. If you disagree tell me why but don't be a punk.
I just think Vernon and Pouncey are both highly overrated.
I don't think Clay is special but I think he's more valuable than Vernon or Pouncey. I have a low opinion of both.
I'd much rather pay Clay than Pouncey or Vernon. I don't think either are special and will be hard to replace. So if signing Clay meant losing Pouncey or Vernon I could live with that.
Let's face it . . . this was the Dolphins being cheap again.
Should of used the franchise tag on him and then negotiated a contract. They whiffed on this move.
The only freak out number is the guaranteed money structure. If you suck it up for two years his cap is less than $5 for the remaining 3 years.
Fins had to see what the market would offer. Sorry but Clay is not elite. He is getting paid because Buffalo has no other choice.
He's not elite, but if it's true that they were dangling 4 years / 25 million with 15 million guaranteed . . . . . they could of easily franchised him and negotiated those terms. Clay has had a few nagging injuries and a player wants that "long term security". He would of agreed to a similar deal.
Miami could of structured it on their terms.
Then again, maybe Miami really didn't want him. We'll never know.
Let's face it . . . this was the Dolphins being cheap again.
Should of used the franchise tag on him and then negotiated a contract. They whiffed on this move.
Its easy to say that in retrospect…but there would have been a lot of people including me pissed off if they franchised Clay at 8+ million. He just is not worth that much to me.
The only way he comes back is if he basically says he will restructure NEXT year, and no not a pay cut but restructuring into a signing bonus for example so we don't take a 12 mil cap hit in 2016. Unless the contract forbids him restructuring but I highly doubt that. They would still be taking a 12 mil hit or whatever it is this year though which is rough. Not worth the money but man hate to see the guy a Bill
I don't think you can restructure for one year after matching an offer. I could stand corrected but I'm almost positive that's how it works.
actually you can after one year, but do they want to?You can call the Dolphins a lot of things but cheap is not one of them. Every year, they are willing to pay (Dansby, Wallace, Albert and now Suh) and a lot of times paying big money hasn't worked. My goodness, their owner just scratched a cheque for $60 million for Suh and you're calling them cheap?
You're missing the point. They didn't want Clay at the franchise number or they would've done it. They only tagged him at the lower number to give the right to match if it was a reasonable offer he got or no offer at all. NO ONE was chasing Clay other than Buffalo. He's not that good, that's why. They replaced him with a better player. They're moving on.
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I don't think you can restructure for one year after matching an offer. I could stand corrected but I'm almost positive that's how it works.
You can call the Dolphins a lot of things but cheap is not one of them. Every year, they are willing to pay (Dansby, Wallace, Albert and now Suh) and a lot of times paying big money hasn't worked. My goodness, their owner just scratched a cheque for $60 million for Suh and you're calling them cheap?
You're missing the point. They didn't want Clay at the franchise number or they would've done it. They only tagged him at the lower number to give the right to match if it was a reasonable offer he got or no offer at all. NO ONE was chasing Clay other than Buffalo. He's not that good, that's why. They replaced him with a better player. They're moving on.
Maybe because the final 4 weeks of the season he had to try and sack Rodgers, Manning and Brady........he got hurt early in the Raiders game and didn't return.There's other examples, but consider this simple one: Dareus had his 10th sack week 10 (during a 3 sack performance--which was an anomaly). From then on he did not record a sack. There looks to be a similar trend with tackles. Seems he wasn't around the ball as often as the season went on. Of course, this is a very simple analysis. Just sayin'.