Around the NFL Free Agency Thread 2013

[RedskinRat]

Originally Posted by GridIron26

Packers close to singing extension with Matthews and Rodgers

Green Bay Packers near deal with Clay Matthews -- sources - ESPN

Sung to the tune of Handel's 'The Hallelujah Chorus':

Matthews, Rodgers!
Matthews, Rodgers, Matthews, Rodgers!
Matthews, Rodgers!
Matthews!
Rodgers!

[artmonkforhallofamein07]

Originally Posted by RedskinRat

Sung to the tune of Handel's 'The Hallelujah Chorus':

Matthews, Rodgers!
Matthews, Rodgers, Matthews, Rodgers!
Matthews, Rodgers!
Matthews!
Rodgers!

nice

[REDSKINS4ever]

Originally Posted by GridIron26

Packers close to singing extension with Matthews and Rodgers

Green Bay Packers near deal with Clay Matthews -- sources - ESPN

Seeing that Rodgers won a SB 2 years before Flacco did, Rodgers should be paid the highest salary of all of the starting quarterbacks in the league. Rodgers has been a great QB.

[Ruhskins]

Originally Posted by REDSKINS4ever

Seeing that Rodgers won a SB 2 years before Flacco did, Rodgers should be paid the highest salary of all of the starting quarterbacks in the league. Rodgers has been a great QB.

According to Jerry Jones, all a QB needs to do is to put up big numbers during the regular season and choke in important games with playoff implications to get a lot of money as a QB

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by REDSKINS4ever

Seeing that Rodgers won a SB 2 years before Flacco did, Rodgers should be paid the highest salary of all of the starting quarterbacks in the league. Rodgers has been a great QB.

So QB's should be paid for winning Super Bowls, yes/no ?

[artmonkforhallofamein07]

Originally Posted by Giantone

So QB's should be paid for winning Super Bowls, yes/no ?

If they do it with the playing ability of Brady, Rodgers, Flacco, Manning x2, Brees, and Big Ben then yes.

[Monkeydad]

Originally Posted by Giantone

So QB's should be paid for winning Super Bowls, yes/no ?

If the Ravens had made Trent Dilfer the highest-paid QB in the NFL, they'd be even bigger idiots than they are for paying Flacco so much.

Brad Johnson won a SB too. Even Kurt Warner was not worthy of being the top-paid QB in the league. Ben Roethlisberger isn't either.

[Monkeydad]

Giants and Victor Cruz not close...he wants Dwayne Bowe money.

Cruz has already expressed a desire to sign a long-term deal with his hometown team many times, and the Giants have said they intend to keep him. That’s why, as the Daily News reported two weeks ago, the Giants offered Cruz a long-term deal worth $7 million annually, which one NFL source added included more than $20 million guaranteed.

Cruz, with his former agent, was believed to be seeking much more, however. Several NFL sources said his asking price was closer to $10 million-$11 million per year, which is about the going rate for a No. 1 receiver in the NFL. With the two sides not close, the Giants gave Cruz a “first-round tender” before the free-agent market opened in early March, which would get him a salary of $2.879 million 2013 if he signs it.

Read more: NY Giants’ Victor Cruz may follow Yankees’ RobinsonÂ*Cano to Jay-Z’s Roc Nation SportsÂ* - NY Daily News

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by Monkeydad

Giants and Victor Cruz not close...he wants Dwayne Bowe money.

Read more: NY Giants’ Victor Cruz may follow Yankees’ RobinsonÂ*Cano to Jay-Z’s Roc Nation SportsÂ* - NY Daily News

I like him and want him to stay a Giant but he's not 11 mill a year good, too many drops.

[donofriose]

Originally Posted by Giantone

I like him and want him to stay a Giant but he's not 11 mill a year good, too many drops.

That is what the Patriots said with Wes Welker and they let him go, and he somehow signs for less then 10 million a year. Same thing will probably happen with Cruz, only big difference is age.

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by Monkeydad

Giants and Victor Cruz not close...he wants Dwayne Bowe money.

Read more: NY Giants’ Victor Cruz may follow Yankees’ RobinsonÂ*Cano to Jay-Z’s Roc Nation SportsÂ* - NY Daily News

The 11- 10 million number was being asked by his first agent, he no longer works with him, he and Eli now have the same agent.

[donofriose]

Originally Posted by Giantone

The 11- 10 million number was being asked by his first agent, he no longer works with him, he and Eli now have the same agent.

That is not a good thing for the Giants because I am pretty sure Eli is going to get paid around 20 million this upcoming season, so obviously this agent knows how to get money for his players.

[Skinzman]

Originally Posted by Giantone

The 11- 10 million number was being asked by his first agent, he no longer works with him, he and Eli now have the same agent.

Cruz also has the same agent as RG3 now.

If we are reading tea leaves based on agents...

Cruz accepts the one year tender and then next year... Garcon on the outside with Cruz in the slot and Davis lined up at tight end.

Santana is gone next year so the need for a slot receiver is there. Morgans contract voids next year iirc plus he is due big money anyways. Morgan and Santana cover the cost of Cruz. Same money plus an upgrade at the position.

But, as we all know, reading tea leaves based on agents is pointless.

[Monkeydad]

Originally Posted by Skinzman

Cruz also has the same agent as RG3 now.

If we are reading tea leaves based on agents...

Cruz accepts the one year tender and then next year... Garcon on the outside with Cruz in the slot and Davis lined up at tight end.

Santana is gone next year so the need for a slot receiver is there. Morgans contract voids next year iirc plus he is due big money anyways. Morgan and Santana cover the cost of Cruz. Same money plus an upgrade at the position.

But, as we all know, reading tea leaves based on agents is pointless.

Sounds like you're smoking the tea leaves. We cannot afford Cruz. We couldn't even afford Talib or a starting right tackle...and you're wanting a dancing diva wide receiver who thinks he should be one of the top-paid receivers in the league?


If we could afford him, I'd want a clause put in the contract that he loses his game paycheck if he does that stupid dance.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by Monkeydad

Sounds like you're smoking the tea leaves. We cannot afford Cruz. We couldn't even afford Talib or a starting right tackle...and you're wanting a dancing diva wide receiver who thinks he should be one of the top-paid receivers in the league?


If we could afford him, I'd want a clause put in the contract that he loses his game paycheck if he does that stupid dance.

He's talking about next year.

I wouldn't mind seeing it happen only to F over Mara some more.