Yea long got a real bad injury.
I would have paid a healthy Jake Long 10m a year in a heartbeart, a strong oline is key to both the running and passing game, its a shame Jakes body just broke down - I blame meatball
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Yea long got a real bad injury.
I would have paid a healthy Jake Long 10m a year in a heartbeart, a strong oline is key to both the running and passing game, its a shame Jakes body just broke down - I blame meatball
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Peters is a floor for Monroe. Peters has an injury history and is older. Monroe is coming into his prime.
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For me I was nervous about giving Long big money because of his consistency in getting injured every year. He was a risk and sure enough he tore his knee at the end of this season with the Rams. I would have had no problem giving him top dollar if he could have stayed on the field. When healthy he is worth the money.
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That depends on what kind of guarantee it is.
Peters' last contract was almost what the Bucs did with Revis; made him the highest paid player at his position but with virtually no guarantees. Revis had none, while Peters had $1,168,000 in signing bonus money... makes it easy to cut whenever they wanted to.
Now that he gets 19.6m in guaranteed money, it will be interesting to see if they structure it similarly to his old deal, or more of a standard one. If just his first two years's base salaries are guaranteed, then you are totally right and its basically just a two year extension because there will be no signing bonus, or very little of it, just like his old deal. And it makes it a pay-as-you go for the remaining years.
If they decided to make some of it signing bonus money, than it just changes the intentions of how many years they really want the deal to be valued out just because now cutting him would come with some repercussions.
My guess is that because Philly has some money to spend, and dont need to prorate the guarantees to give them any more wiggle room this year that his deal looks very much like his old one.
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Gotta love Agents. Peter's agent is the one who released the initial details of the deal... lumped in this years unguaranteed salary into the new guarantee. Cant say I disagree with him, it is in effect guaranteed - but its a clever use of semantics haha
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I completely agree that contract details are overly important but, think his contract will be a guideline of what agents will be expecting for Monroe and Albert, which is why I said give or take. IF we could sign Monroe for around $9M, I would take it in a heartbeat. IF Albert wanted the same, I would look to Collins.
Id rather draft a LT in round 1.
if we had a top 5 pick I would fully agree
I hear you. I just cant stand the idea of tying up $10Mil a year on a non play maker. I just keep hearing that this is such a deep draft for Oline with 5 LT to go in the 1st round.
*shrug* I agree with not paying Albert 10 but the LT spot is key. Have all the playmakers you like but if you dont have a line you might as well play Roberto Wallace and Naanee
LOL! nice.
If Taylor Lewan drops a little (say to the 14-16 area) I might consider trading up for him.
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I was thinking the same of Matthews.
Matthews is the best tackle in the draft, he is going to have to fall dramatically to get anywhere near us or where we could trade up at an affordable price