2014 NFL off-season thread

Not a bad hunch, Guy.

 

Hope not. Nix showed that he has a bit of Santonio Holmes in him and it's
doubtful that the Jets want to repeat that. This draft has some good
receiver options and I bet The Jets go that direction.

Seems more like a classic Pats signing where Belichick sits the guy down
and lays down the law before signing. See Dillon and Moss.

Granderson was a no brainer. Good player and good guy. Will be a great
spokesmen for The Mets.

 

Bailey is hardly a surprise. Any team thinking of re-signing him for anything above the minimum should look at how Ed Reed and Charles Woodson did last season.

Hester is a little more interesting. I don't think he was that highly paid, but he is 31.

 

Not quite the same as Bailey, given that Hester was set to become a free agent and Bailey had one year left on his deal.

Hester's value is mainly in the return game, considering he's never been a top cornerback or receiver. He may be younger than Bailey but I sure wouldn't pay Hester that much, given that he's going to be depth and special teams if you bring him on board.

 

Hester was very important to a Lovie Smith team that cared about special teams as much as (more than?) it cared about offense. Outside of that, he's worthless.

 

The Steelers restructure the contracts of Troy Polamalu and Heath Miller and cut three players and they are still over the cap, though that includes the money for putting the transition tag on Jason Worilds.

Levi Brown was a lock to be cut, but I was a little surprised they let Larry Foote go. The team really seemed to miss him after he got hurt in the opener, but I guess they feel he has nothing left in the tank.

 

The dumbest column of the off-season just landed. This one will not be topped. Lowell Cohn of Santa Rosa Press Democrat writes that Colin Kaepernick is a big baby for wanting $18M a year, and that if he doesn't get what he wants, he will "play out the final year of his contract, base salary just south of one mil, and negotiate after next season instead of settling for what he considers a contract unworthy of his eminence.

"Someone should slap a Boston cream pie in Kaepernick’s smug face."

http://cohn.blogs.pressdemocrat.com/17958/kaepernick-salary-demand-line/?tc=ar

 

This was a horrible, stupid, awful way to raise what is a really good question: Is Kaepernick worth top QB money?

 

Mark Sanchez also lead his team to AFC Championship his first two years
and look what happened.

After success of Seattle I am of the school that its better to try and get
a young QB on the cheap and spread the money around.

 

Is he worth it? No.

Will he get it? Yes.

 

Agreed.

I don't think they pay him $18M a year. Absent a new deal, he makes $1 million for 2014. Even if they get nothing done for 2015, the 49ers franchise him and he makes $17-18M. So they have him for the next two years at a total of $19M. If they boost that number by $17M to reach his requested average, are they really going to make it up on the back end?

There's also the reality that he has started only 27 games, and if you take the three against the Green Bay Packers we still don't have a very good idea of what kind of quarterback he is going to be.

None of which Cohn discussed. He sees a tattooed jerk who won't kowtow to him and he doesn't like it.

 

Is Brees' last season in San Diego the only time a QB played a full season under the franchise tag?

If Kaepernick was a free agent, some team would give him $20 million a year. If I'm the Niners, I try to give him a contract where it escalates $14 mil, $16 mil, $18 mil, $20 mil, $22 mil, $24 mil, but only guarantee the first three years. I doubt they'll be that lucky.