Agreed, but the Redskins set the market insanely high. There’s no way the Browns brass could agree to move back for so little, even if it might make football sense. I suspect that the Redskins deal might undermine any chance of trade in the top 10.
Fucking ridiculous that the Packers got so many picks for those players. Are they really saying that Jenkins and Colledge are one tick below Nnamdi? Compare what the Jets lost to what the Packers lost and then compare the compensation, it makes no fucking sense. The Giants were also wildly over compensated for their losses relative to their gains. I think the Giants actually gained more than they lost when you measure the quality of Weatherford’s year against Boss’. This system is a fucking mess.
The Bears got nothing. I think a case could be made that the loss of Danieal Manning justified compensation when measured against the contributions of the rejects they signed. Then again I guess Williams, Merriweather, Barber and Okoye were all starters at some point in the season, well below average ones, so it probably wasn’t enough to warrant it.
Colledge started every game for the Cards and Jenkins started every game for the Eagles and had 5.5 sacks. I understand that all things Packers raises your ire, but losing two full time starters certainly warrants two end of fourth round draft picks.
Drew Coleman started a whopping 4 games, Braylon Edwards started 5 and didn’t have a single TD, Shaun Ellis started 10 and had one sack, Steve Weatherford is a fucking punter, and Brad Smith started 5 games for the Bills. None of those are even close to worth a fourth rounder in compensation.
The Giants got one end of fourth round pick. That’s wildly overcompensated to you? Boss and his 11 starts left, and they got Baas, who started 11 games. Call those two a wash. Cofield started every game for the Redskins, which warranted their 4th round compensatory pick. And, again, Weatherford is a fucking punter.
Yeah, losing punters should be hugely compensated and losing full season starters doesn’t matter!!! You tell 'em!!!
I agree that the compensatory pick system is silly to the extent that it requires the league to make a fairly subjective judgment of the players’ value. Base it on the contract the player got from his new team and his length of time in the league or something.
Huh? Everyone agreed going into this past season that the Giants had had a terrible offseason. Obviously things worked out ok in the end (:D), but, as noted, they lost a good starting DT and a good starting TE, as well as their slot receiver Steve Smith, a de facto starter, and one who was excellent when healthy. As wonderful as it’s been to have a good punter again, if money’s no issue then it’s nuts to say that Cofield+Boss+Smith+a replacement-level Punter < Steve Weatherford.
It is apparently objective, it’s just that neither the fans nor the teams have the formula; those interested are forced to try to reverse-engineer it.
The guy in the above link has been working on it and making predictions for years (though the CBA dispute has thrown a wrench in the works the past two). Here is a pretty good rundown of the NFL’s process. The biggest factor is, indeed, the player’s new contract (which, if you think about it, is a pretty good catch-all measure of value).
I don’t see it. Boss had a terrible year and he actually played in most of it. Cofield was mediocre at best registering a whopping 15 solo tackles (25 combined in 16 starts). Steve Smith hardly played and caught 11 balls all year. Objectively, the Giants lost close to nothing. I suppose if the formula heavily weighs the money they got and the number of snaps they played, regardless of production, then I suppose it makes more sense. Weatherford was by far the most effective player in that exchange and Baas was productive but average. Again, if you base it on effectiveness/production it’s a wash at best, but if it’s salary and snaps then naturally the Punter is meaningless. Anyone who watched the playoffs last year knows how impactful Weatherford was.
If the formula for comp picks is based in part on the player’s new contract, you have to wonder if there is a built-in weighting for the Dan Snyder/Al Davis factor.
He’s a nose tackle in a 3-4 defense. Casey Hampton, a 5 time pro bowler, made the pro bowl once with 17 solo tackles. Grading him as mediocre based on stats that a mostly irrelevant for the job he’s supposed to do isn’t the best idea.
By and large, from what I read in my brief review, the Redskins are more than happy to have him as their starter at NT. After 14 games last year, the NFC East blogger said: "The Redskins targeted Cofield – they didn’t settle for him. They went out and bid aggressively on a guy they believed fit what they were trying to do in a number of ways. They did so assuming they could make him fit in the ways he didn’t already obviously do so. And to this point, it appears to be paying off.
“The guy is going to be, I think, one of the best noses in the league when he comes bac.” next season, defensive coordinator Jim Haslett said.
Said Shanahan: “He’s going to make a great nose tackle for years to come.”
Another positive for Redskins fans to take out of their third straight losing season. Another sign that there’s reason to feel good about the direction the franchise is taking."
Personally, I have no knowledge of whether he’s great, good, just a guy, or mediocre. But simply declaring him mediocre, despite much press to the opposite and relying on an iffy stat isn’t very compelling.
Irsay is still making noise about possibly selecting RG3. Not sure if he’s an attention whore or it’s legit. I think RG3 is special enough that it may be legit.
I’m not saying that RG3 will be better, but I think Irsay claiming to have a hard decision is legit. Which is to say that I think it’s a legitimate decision, and not a foregone conclusion.
This is the exact same time in the process when the Ryan Leaf over Peyton Manning buzz started to gain steam. There’s a shortage of news and the pundits are creating story lines. I’m not suggesting that RG3 is going to be a Leaf caliber bust, and the Colts would be wise to do their due diligence, but all this is just media fluff. Luck will be taken #1. Any comments about the Colts considering RG3 is purely a negotiating ploy to keep Luck’s price down.
In this regular installment of Bears Free Agent News That No One But Me Cares About™ Zack Bowman signed with the Vikings. No word on the details, but the Vikes secondary was terrible and Bowman needed a change of scenery, though I’m not sure him going to another Tampa-2 style system is ideal. It will be interesting if we face him this year to see what happens. I have a unpleasant fear that Bowman could blossom out from under Lovie’s thumb and he showed flashes of being a hell of a playmaker, I don’t want to see a Cutler 2-INT game.
So, that’s 2 or the 4 significant UFAs who actually were a risk to leave leaving. Graham and Bowman both were predicted to bail for more opportunity and probably more money, I’m not sure either got the latter but I suspect they both see a clearer path to the starting lineup in their new homes. We got Kellen Davis back which was big and we’re still waiting to hear what Amobi Okoye is going to do, it’ll be important to get him back into the loop.
No, the slotting isn’t rigid. There’s a rookie salary cap. Teams can only spend so much on all their rookies, how they allocate that is flexible. In practice this slots people to a degree since a team can’t pay their 3rd round pick nothing, but it’s not prescribed. Plus the amount of guaranteed money is still fully negotiable as is the contract length.
Adam Schefter has been putting out tidbits from the owner’s meetings…
“New OT rules passed. Same system for regular season as the postseason.”
“All turnovers now will be subject to review like scoring plays. No coaching challenged will be needed.”
Unfortunately, they didn’t make the one rule change that would’ve made the most sense and helped speed up the game – they rejected all reviews being from the booth.
Oh goody, that’ll make more time for Cialis commercials. Someday we may long for the days when it only took three and a half hours to watch a football game.
