Romo gets a new deal. 6 years, $108 mil, $55 mil guaranteed.
As a Redskins fan, I say thanks JJ! You’re married to an above-average but ultimately overrated, and now wildly overpaid QB. I know, they really didn’t have a choice, who else were they going to get, blah blah blah.
Carson Palmer, the man involved in one of the stupidest trades in the history of the NFL (thanks Hue Jackson!), has refused to take a pay cut in Oakland. There is speculation he wants out of that hell hole, which I really can’t blame him for. With that in mind, Oakland has apparently traded (no word on the terms yet) for … Matt Flynn.
I’m a fan of Flynn’s and with him stuck behind Russell Wilson in Seattle, it makes sense for all involved (depending, of course, on the cost). I’m not a fan at all of Terrelle Pryor, the Raiders’ backup QB of the future, so I think they’re smart to bring Flynn in to compete for the job. And Seattle, a team I will actively root against, gets more draft picks back.
Should be an interesting off season.
Nailed it.
Brent Grimes signed a 1 year deal with the Dolphins.
Son of a bitch, all that waiting for nothing. Grimes increased the Browns draft flexibility immensely. Now they’ve got no #2 CB and they’re almost forced to draft a CB. And there’s a good chance Milliner is gone, so do we draft the 2nd best CB in the draft at #6 due to overriding need? Ugh. Browns are sitting on 27m in open cap this year, and they can’t outbid Miami for a 1 year deal?
The Bears have been plugging holes like crazy with low-end FAs and have complete flexibility in the draft now, really happy with that strategy. Time will tell if these bargain bin FAs the Bears nabbed are an upgrade over what the had and if they’ll survive the season, but they all tend to be in that sweet age ranged of 26-28 years old.
Going into the draft I’d have said the Bears dire needs were, in order:
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The Bears have now addressed every single one with the exception of WR3 with players who were starters at those positions last year.
I’m worried that Bushrod is a overpaid average player, that Slauson is a step down from Louis. That DJ Williams might be a head case and that neither Blanchard or McCown will be capable backups. But considering we still have the draft ahead of us, I feel like Emery has a clear plan and he’s executing it. With Emery, my concern is his ability to accurately evaluate players’ talent/upside. The group they brought in looks like a mixed bag as was last years draft. At least now he won’t be reaching for need on top of it.
So the Browns have kind of painted themselves into a corner with this… uh, corner issue. It makes me think they didn’t put a high priority on CB2 because they were planning to draft one all along. But they have to know there’s no guarantee they’d get Milliner at #6. You could argue that Rhodes is actually a better fit for Horton’s scheme, a better man coverage guy who you can put on an island when you bring pressure from the front 7. So I think he may be their target all along.
I can only hope they can trade down to the early teens to take him and pick up a second round pick, because he’d be poor value at #6. But that’s my prediction for the moment. Milliner at 6 if he’s there, but probably Rhodes.
The ultimate twist of irony in that whole trade is that we still get Oakland’s 2nd rounder in this upcoming draft after getting their first in the last one, Hue Jackson is now back coaching with the Bengals after being surreptitiously fired in Oakland for daring to post an 8-8 season (one of their best in awhile), and meanwhile The Quitter is likely to while away the rest of his passionless career as a nobody backup on a nobody team, or be cut by the Raiders and get thrown behind the offensive line of another nobody team as a creaky, immobile starter.
Bengals FTW!
How odd that the coach who made the decision to make one of the most idiotic trades in the NFL that favored the Bengals ends up coaching for … the Bengals. A nice little “thank you for those all but free first round draft picks” gift.
Hamlet-You do realize you’re blaming him for blowing out his ACL on a since banned type of hit, right?
The Bills have signed Kevin Kolb to a two-year deal. Maybe they decided the price for Flynn was just too high. The proposed trade to the Raiders still hasn’t been completed, but I think everyone expects Flynn to move soon anyway.
The whole thing was weird, as is his career arc. He was the receivers coach for the Bengals, then offensive coordinator for the Falcons, then QB coach for two years with the Ravens, then o-coordinator for the Raiders and their offense exploded in scoring, then the head coach for one season, started 7-4, finished 8-8, got fired by a new GM, then back to the Bengals as an assistant defensive backs coach. In the offseason he interviewed for the Panthers o-coordinator job, didn’t get it and then the Bengals made him their running backs coach.
Weird and all over the place.
Milliner goes to the Browns in the most recent mock I see. I’m really not sure how he drops past Detroit, but Todd McShay is convinced the Lions are taking Ansah.
I am? I had no idea, mostly because I have no idea what you’re talking about, and because I’m not “blaming” Carson Palmer (if that’s who you’re talking about).
One of the benefits of having a GM who rarely makes moves in free agency is I get to avoid the roller coaster of emotions that comes with simple needs based activities. NFL teams are signing guys at positions of need, and then their fans are happy that they have a need supposedly filled, but the analysis stops there. Rarely are there discussions deeper than “Hey, we needed a MLB, we got a veteran MLB, so it’s all good.” Nevermind if the guy is any good, as long as the need is filled.
The list of guys the Bears bring in on these plug holes cheaply include such lumenaries like Vernon Gholston, Chilo Rachal, Edwin Williams, Brian Iwuh, Chester Taylor, Brandon Maneulaumamaoeualelamamsa, Marion Barber, Matt Spaeth, Chris Spencer, Amodi Okoye, Brandon Merriweather, Jason Campbell, and on and on. They’re not horrible signings (well Jason Campbell was pretty bad), but I just can’t get excited by signing a bunch of hole fillers simply because they fill a hole.
I think we’ll have to keep you from posting in this thread until you’ve passed all the evaluations for a concussion. 
I’ll just rub a little dirt on my brain and be fine.
Apparently the Packers are getting ready to make Aaron Rodgers the highest paid player in the NFL, maybe even upwards of $25 million a year. The latest rumor is that they’re still about $2 million a year difference apart on the salary, but here’s hoping Aaron will take a bit less against the cap so the Pack can surround him with enough talent to win another Super Bowl and to build up that defense.
The 49ers traded for Colt McCoy? Odd. I hope it’s an April Fools joke, like the Victor Cruz mumbo jumbo.
It looks like SF gets McCoy and the Browns 6th round pick and Cleveland gets the 49ers 5th and 7th round picks. The 5th/6th exchange isn’t far from a wash - SF picks 31st and CLE picks 6th. There are 3 compensatory picks at the end of the 5th, but still, moving back 9 spots that deep in the draft doesn’t hurt too much. Essentially, SF gets a backup QB with starting experience for a seventh round pick - definitely better than they’d do with the next-to-last pick of the draft.
McCoy flopped in Cleveland, but it’s hard to blame him for that - everyone flops in Cleveland. Working with Harbaugh, I think he can improve to a serviceable backup pretty quickly. With the way Kaepernick runs, I’d be surprised if McCoy doesn’t see some action this year, and I think the Niners will ultimately be glad they made that trade.
Carson Palmer to the Arizona Cardinals for a (snicker, snicker) conditional 7th round pick. Hue Jackson buys him for a first round and a second round pick and the Raiders sell him for a 7th one year later. Ladies and gentlemen: Hue Jackson.