Archuleta traded to Bears for 6th round pick

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Originally Posted by CrazyCanuck

Wow! I just saw this now.

Schneed, looks like you were right on. From the Post:

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"The Redskins and Archuleta agreed to postpone his original deadline of March 12 to receive his bonus payment in order to facilitate a trade, and the Bears, whose coach, Lovie Smith, has a strong relationship with the safety from their time together in St. Louis, ultimately agreed to pick up that $5 million payment as part of the deal, sources said, beating today's new deadline for the option."

IMO this is UNBELIEVABLE!!! Snyder pulled a real coup here. I don't know how we convinced them to give us a 6th rounder AND take the $5M bonus payment.



I didn't know they could but I'm loving it!

I'm not sure if it's a change in the CBA, or if Snyder's just getting smarter with the signing bonuses, but it's been a trend with our recent signings. Arch, Randle-El, Carter, Lloyd, Samuels, Rabach, Patten, Jansen, Thomas, Moss, Taylor all had their signing bonuses split over the first 2 years of the contract. I figured this was just a way to delay some money past the current year, but now I see how valuable it can be. If you screw up on a guy (Arch), you still have time to recoup some of the signing bonus.

As Frank the Tank once said, "It's genius!"

Bonuses count against whoever pays them so when we agreed to delay it and then traded him the Bears were on the hook for the payment and therefore the cap ramifications. I think paying a 5m bonus wasn't in their plans so they just reworked it to be several bonuses. He loses no money just doesn't get it all at once and he gets to play where he wanted to all along.

As for JLC's post in the blog I am somewhat disappointed. I tend to agree with most of what he says but I think in this case he is letting his emotions take over. I'll agree that on the face of it it sounds weird to trade a guy just to have his cap hit bigger this year but he basically minimizes the future cap savings, minimizes the not having to give the guy 5m, and minimizes the effect this guy could have had as a distraction this season. I seem to remember on several occasions him making positive comments about Arch and his demeanor but in the end Arch comes off to me as a much more insidious type cancer.

He clearly didn't want to be here. He didn't like that he wasn't going to start and then when he had to be an every down safety he didn't like that the scheme made him have to do something he wasn't good at. He had to cover and it made him look bad. Real bad. And then he gets mad because he feels hung out to dry by the coaches who I don't even remember once saying anything negative about him. Don't get me wrong the coaching should bear some responsibility here but as a professional he needed to man up and just do his job. Your a f*cking safety in the NFL and you can't cover! That's YOUR JOB dumbass. Stop getting all pissed off and go do your job. Don't weasel around and look all high and mighty by "taking the high road" and then do an off the record interview for ESPN basically throwing the entire coaching staff under the bus and expect them to be ok with it. It's called loyalty and just because you perceived that they didn't show you any deoesn't mean you aren't wrong. They're trying win football games and when one guy has made SERIOUS errors constantly don't think they aren't going to make changes. He should have felt "Well I am losing my job but at least no one has clled me out publicly. At least they're handling this internally." But no he just gets all pissy and acts like a baby because no one is holding his f*cking hand and treating him like the little bitch kid he is. He's probably lucky that Williams didn't have a hit taken out on him after the Friend article. The guy had to go. He was a distraction whether JLC wants to admit it or not.

Rant over.