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It actually makes some sense if he's cheap, and I assume he was and he can avoid what you are saying. He returns home to play for a possible contender while giving Stafford likely his best deep ball threat. I'm sure he's not projected to be an everydown player, maybe that will help him.
Oh, no doubt. My point was they won't let him make any sudden movements out of fear of injury. Probably didn't explain that well.
Melvin Gordon a big winner so far...Phillip Lindsay was siphoning off 10+ carries/game...Freeman and Boone will be merely backups...Broncos shored up their defense considerably so more favorable game scripts, etc.
You may be right. Gordon has little competition for carries, as the RB depth chart stands now. However, this is the same Melvin Gordon who has only one more thousand-yard-rushing season than I have. It would not be at all surprising to see the Broncos add another runner.
LOL. Obviously ended up posting in the wrong thread. Guess I had two threads opened at once. But yeah, they need a practice squad.
True, but I am not sure how much influence a coach has on the GM in player selection. For example, if the coach is adamantly opposed to PLAYER X would a GM take him anyway . . . and if the coach is in love with PLAYER Y would a GM diss him by taking someone else. One would hope the two would agree on their team's choices.
I don't know if NE signed the right players for their team and if they overpaid them, but IMO the media needs to better report on and understand contracts, market values, and salary cap management. For example, the numbers that came out for the NE signings included max contract values . . . but almost all of them have incentives that players won't come close to reaching. The multi-year deals they signed come with low first and second year salaries and final years that the players will never see and get paid out on. And unlike some other contract like Gronk, Hill, and JJSS, NE didn't tack on bogus voidable years that will escalate 80% of the cap hit when the contracts void at the end of the year. To summarize, the majority of the players they signed were on team friendly deals in spite of what the initial reports indicated. And unlike other teams that added a bunch of high profile free agent signings in prior off seasons, NE has BB running the show. The flip side would be if NE had accumulated all the cap space they had and DIDN'T use it, people would flame them for NOT spending it. So they couldn't win in the eyes of the media no matter what they did.
Amen. Actually the Jets fans on this board are disgruntled that their GM didn’t spend more. And, I have to agree that the GM should spend it to make a competitive team. Let the owner decide how the capital is managed.
This is one of the stranger developments imo. Really would have liked to see him get an opportunity either in NE or CHI. The way Cam/Dalton played last year it's hard for me to imagine those teams wouldn't have been willing to bring him in for the $ Mariota is agreeing to stay in OAK.
Maybe Marriotta and the Raiders made an agreement that if he redid his deal they would be able to trade him. It’ll obviously be easier now for someone to take on his new salary if they are interested.
Yes and no...IMO it would have been far worse for the other two if Harris, Williams or Etienne were drafted by Tampa at the end of the first as some are mocking...Jones is what he is...a quality RB with solid fantasy value that is not going to be a legit #1, if he can stay pretty consistent with what he did last year that will be best case scenario for him.
I never look at this way, I just don't think it's a win for any RB that they signed Fournette because they MIGHT have drafted a RB. I just now they signed Fournette and it's not good.
