WFT's Off-Season Thread

[Chico23231]

Originally Posted by MTK

for the accountants here

@Adam Schefter
To make his trade to Washington from Miami official, OL Ereck Flowers restructured his contract whereby the Dolphins will pay $6 million in a signing bonus and Washington will pay a $3 million base salary, giving Flowers $9M fully guaranteed this year, per @DrewJRosenhaus

Ok this is a win. I’ll accept this deal

[SunnySide]

People really need to learn to wait and get all the info before they ...





I would never do that .. I mean, not recently

[MTK]

Miami essentially paying to dump his contract.

[Monkeydad]

Big win if he's only costing us $3 million.

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by Monkeydad

Big win if he's only costing us $3 million.

Spotrac's updated page shows it costing us $3M this year, 10M next year. With the restructure, Miami splits the dead cap between this year and next $5/$3.

What I like also is that if Flowers agreed to the restructure, he likely signed off on coming back to Washington. They likely wouldn't outright cut him and take the whole hit at once.

[nonniey]

One interesting tidbit that has no effect on the Redskins or the Dolphins but does on Fisher is that $6m Miami paid him for this year will not be subject to State Taxes.

[nonniey]

As for no longer drafting guard at 19 only one I've seen mentioned before was Tucker and he is still an option as he plays tackle very well as well.

[FrenchSkin]

That's a big win for us, wise cap wise and gives us a really solid LG. He played well for us, good move from a culture standpoint too IMO : he has to pumped to comeback play for the team that, as was said here, saved his career !

[punch it in]

Love the move for Flowers. He was good here. Will be again. So he will replace Schweitzer on the left side? Still need a LT. Than we have a damn good OL.

[Schneed10]

$3M cap hit this year, nothing guaranteed to him next year, so next year if you want to cut him, no dead cap hit. Outstanding move.

I don’t think it changes anything for Scherff. I think he’ll be gone after this season anyway. And I don’t see him getting traded before that, I think he subscribes to the Kirk Cousins theory of make your way to free agency to find out your worth, I don’t think he’ll agree to a long term deal with an acquiring team because he wants to hit the open market.

As for G, this is a depth play that indicates that they’re not comfortable with the recovery of Charles, or not comfortable with Schweitzer as a starter, or envision Charles competing at T, or a combination of these.

I still think they will look to draft a LT in this draft. Either way, good depth pickup. Can’t have too many capable offensive linemen.

[Scalper]

Originally Posted by Schneed10

$3M cap hit this year, nothing guaranteed to him next year, so next year if you want to cut him, no dead cap hit. Outstanding move.

I don’t think it changes anything for Scherff. I think he’ll be gone after this season anyway. And I don’t see him getting traded before that, I think he subscribes to the Kirk Cousins theory of make your way to free agency to find out your worth, I don’t think he’ll agree to a long term deal with an acquiring team because he wants to hit the open market.

As for G, this is a depth play that indicates that they’re not comfortable with the recovery of Charles, or not comfortable with Schweitzer as a starter, or envision Charles competing at T, or a combination of these.

I still think they will look to draft a LT in this draft. Either way, good depth pickup. Can’t have too many capable offensive linemen.

I think Scherff wants to choose his team, and go to a contender. I think he might stay here if he is made the highest paid G with obscene guarantees, otherwise he is gone. No one is trading a high pick and having to pay him a huge deal. Simply not happening barring major injuries to contender. Any smart team could simply draft a G and pay him $17M a year less, rather than trading picks to us to do the same thing.

[vallin21]

Love the Flowers trade. Shouldn’t change our draft strategy. A top prospect will slide, and be there for us at 19 (Darrisaw, Vera-Tucker, Parsons, D. Smith, JOK).

Out of those 5, I’d take
1. Parsons
2. D. Smith
3. Darrisaw
4. Vera Tucker
5. JOK



I’m not a fan of JOK, I think we need a true LB, not a hybrid, which ironically is the problem right now with Collins and Rivera.

[Monkeydad]

Originally Posted by vallin21

Love the Flowers trade. Shouldn’t change our draft strategy. A top prospect will slide, and be there for us at 19 (Darrisaw, Vera-Tucker, Parsons, D. Smith, JOK).

Out of those 5, I’d take
1. Parsons
2. D. Smith
3. Darrisaw
4. Vera Tucker
5. JOK



I’m not a fan of JOK, I think we need a true LB, not a hybrid, which ironically is the problem right now with Collins and Rivera.

Swap #5 and #1.

[Chief X_Phackter]

Originally Posted by Monkeydad

Swap #5 and #1.

No, swap #5 with Z. Collins or J. Davis.

[Chico23231]

Having 3 starting quality starting guards going into the year is big and now gives us insurance after Schreff leaves. Ismel still there too as developing guard/center. I do think this removes interior Oline off the board early for the draft.

If we grab a tackle during the draft, the Oline room will be packed. Should make for a great competition and a strong unit going into the season.