I don't get it-Marshall gets 5 million a year to be a nickel back and...

[Adam First]

He's getting paid 3.3 million a year since 6 million of that money is a signing bonus.

 

[Shabam88]

We let Ben Grubbs sign in New Orleans for a mere 7 million a year. I'm confused. Someone help me out. Why are we giving Marshall who isn't going to be a starter, 5 million a year when we could of easily let Will Allen and Jimmy Wilson fight it out in camp. Ben Grubbs is one of the best guards in the league and all it would of taken to get him was only 7 million a year. That's cheap imo. I hope we weren't saving our money to piss it away on Flynn.

Horrible post. How can you not trust Ireland and this front office after everything they have done for this team? All of our other FA signings have panned out, so why question this one?

 

[Shabam88]

Our defensive backfield needs to upgraded. So we upgraded it. You ppl need to settle down seriously! Complain, complain, complain.....I feel like I am at a knitting circle! I swear its like if a FA is not a big name or someone you want then they must suck. THis is not Madden, we can't sign the best player at every position.

Awesome post completely agreed. We have absolutely nothing to complain about with the way this team has been run the last 10 years!

 

[Kdawg954]

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That may be true. Doesn't make it a shrewd pickup.

We are buying Marshall at a higher price than he's ever been worth. If you assigned an over/under on his salary at the start of free agency, we comfortably found the over.

You win big with great players scattered throughout your roster, not modest patchwork upgrades. Ireland seems to have a check list and no comprehension of the big picture. He's a swell general manager if your goal is to avoid a 3-13 caliber roster but never threaten the reverse.

Jason Allen is the last guy we had who was debated as cornerback or safety. By definition, a combo type does not have special ability, otherwise it would be obvious where he fits.

Paying $5 million a year for a decent talent like Richard Marshall would be like me watching a team win three consecutive games as an underdog, and then deciding it's time to jump in and and bet big on them as a home 10 point favorite. Even if it works, it's negative expectancy, something that will grind you out as a loser in the long run. Trust me, there are guys in Las Vegas who absolutely have that mindset, always overpaying and finding the wrong situational spot. Unfortunately, we have a general manager who shares the same faults, a basic lack of instinct and poor concept of timing and value.

Trust me, I saw Marshall early last year at CB and there was nothing special about what I was watching, and I certainly didn't care for him in Carolina at CB. Then I saw him later in the year at FS and he really seemed to gel that secondary into something decent and was manning the FS spot like a man who had been doing it for years.

The Cardinals D-Coordinator went as far to say that Richard Marshall was the Defensive MVP of that team last season and they wanted to resign him, but in between paying Kolb, going after Manning, franchising Calais, Levi Brown situation . . . it wasn't something that could be done.

Is the price tag a little high? Yea it probably is, then again what is constituted as a bargain in Free Agency? The man is in his prime and his coming off his best stretch of football he has ever played in the NFL and will fill our biggest hole left on defense. Miami needs a FS and they feel they got one in Marshall. I like this move over the overrated Reggie Nelson.

 

[thephinger]

I remember when we got Benny Sapp.. all the same people were like now we have a great secondary.... what makes anyone here think that Ireland can evaluate talent. The reason we are all giving our opinions and judgement is because we think we can do a better job than him. We actually may :)

 

[Kdawg954]

I remember when we got Benny Sapp.. all the same people were like now we have a great secondary.... what makes anyone here think that Ireland can evaluate talent. The reason we are all giving our opinions and judgement is because we think we can do a better job than him. We actually may :)

Wow who said that about Sapp and him being the piece to a great secondary? The missing piece to a great secondary has always been FS . . . hell it has been that way since Brock Marion left the team and ironically that is the last time we had a great secondary. We whiffed on Jason Allen, had the Hill's, Gerbils, Clemmons, Jones, etc. and we are still looking. Sapp never made us a great secondary, and whoever said that was being misled.

Sapp was important because we lost Will Allen and we literally had NOBODY to man the nickel and Sapp was a decent find considering the season was about to start and pretty much everybody was taken.