For all you D Hall lovers

[over the mountain]

this D was pretty damn good before d hall got here, i'd rather pay los top ten cb money vs d hall.

id rather be fiscally responsible now and have room to make moves 2 years from now vs. giving hall a big payday then being handcuffed to yet another overpaid but contractually unmovable player (who may become a PITA non-team player).

this D was and is good with or without hall in there. why pay no 1 corner money to a no 2 corner. oh well, just gotta be patient and wait to see what happens.

go skins!!

[MTK]

Originally Posted by over the mountain

this D was pretty damn good before d hall got here, i'd rather pay los top ten cb money vs d hall.

id rather be fiscally responsible now and have room to make moves 2 years from now vs. giving hall a big payday then being handcuffed to yet another overpaid but contractually unmovable player (who may become a PITA non-team player).

this D was and is good with or without hall in there. why pay no 1 corner money to a no 2 corner. oh well, just gotta be patient and wait to see what happens.

go skins!!

Yeah good point, if Hall were to walk it's not going to ruin this D. We would still be ok with Rogers, Springs, and Smoot as our top 3.

[BigHairedAristocrat]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

Yeah good point, if Hall were to walk it's not going to ruin this D. We would still be ok with Rogers, Springs, and Smoot as our top 3.

Springs will eat up 8.5M in cap space if hes here. last year, he only played in about half our games... so in 2009, we have every reason to expect Springs, if hes on the roster, to eat a ton of cap space that could be used to sign multiple players, while sitting on the bench half the season while Rogers and Smoot start...and dont forget, we are trying to trade rogers... which means Smoot, who at this point in his career is a #4 corner at best, could be the #1 corner in 50% of our games in 2009. It also means that Justin Tryon is going to be our #2 or #3 corner, because keeping Springs means we wont have money to go after quality players to replace Hall and Rogers.

The hall situation is not occurring in a vacuum where what happens with him has no effect on anything else. There are multiple things going on here, and securing Hall would give us tremendous leverage and flexibility in deciding what to do with Rogers and Springs. If we lose Hall, our leverage and flexibility is gone and we are SEVERELY limited in what we can do as far as upgrading our team with quality players in free agency.

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by BigHairedAristocrat

The hall situation is not occurring in a vacuum where what happens with him has no effect on anything else. There are multiple things going on here, and securing Hall would give us tremendous leverage and flexibility in deciding what to do with Rogers and Springs. If we lose Hall, our leverage and flexibility is gone and we are SEVERELY limited in what we can do as far as upgrading our team with quality players in free agency.

That's a really good point, but 50mil is a lot to pay over
Hall's market value for leverage.