2011 NFL Free Agency-Part 3

[That Guy]

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

It really does, but they couldn't go into the season and allow Fitzgerald to see whether he really wanted to stay in Arizona or not.

It's a monster deal, perhaps more than he would have gotten on the open market, but the Cardinals are stuck between a rock and a hard place if Fitzgerald walks. The financial flexibility they would have gained would have been useless if they had their investment in Kolb and nothing else around him.

I think high cost contracts on WRs and RBs are wasted. I guarantee peyton can get by with junkers, and mcnabb did too for quite a while. Look at brady, welker was cheap, they got randy for almost nothing, and when he started being randy, they cut ties.

fitzgerald is a great WR, top3 no doubt, but I don't think he's 119mill more valuable than veteran level replacement.

I mean, I think our WR corp is actually very good (and very deep). If we didn't use a draft pick on hankerson, he wouldn't make the team. Moss is the only one getting paid, and it's a very modest deal for a 1200 yard receiver. donte can be a good 1 (100yd/game) when healthy, and gaffney/armstrong are both 800yard guys and they're all basically free. after that austin has looked great making hard catches and being in the right spot, and paul hasn't looked bad either.

At RB, we don't have a superstar, but hightower, helu, and torrain, making about $0 between them, look like a great group, with royster serving as the emergency callup.

instead, they're going to be paying fitzgerald big money till he's 35 or taking a big cap hit when they're done with him.

I do understand keeping your superstars, it just sucks when they aren't at positions where they provide a really big advantage (LT/DE/QB - someone that's fully involved in every play).

I think LBs and S are other positions that don't really warrant huge money (ryan clark at 1.5mill... why'd we ever let you go...).