The Fins have Landry, Stills and Parker as their starting WR and they have Carroo, who they traded up to get last year. You think they want to sign Decker?
You said both and I said a 33yo meaning Harris and you come back with Decker, so why do you think Harris is worth a late round conditional pick. If I wanted to pull you up on Decker I would have mentioned him in my post He will only have 3 rock solid years left if his body holds out, you can guarantee that now ? No didn't think so and I would suggest the teams you think that are willing to offer a 5th for him would be few and far between to non existent imo, in a way we have made it easier for him to land a new team by releasing him and that is a fair thing to do, nobody is giving a 5th for him after a double surgery and nobody is giving anything for a 33yo at the tailend of a very good career.
Fuck me has he not actually been released btw ? I misread the title as Decker released, after reading the Steve Smith article which said we had released Decker and coming straight to this thread
Fins are mulling cutting Carroo, who apparently looks Gholston-ish at WR. Tanny likes signing vets. It could happen.
Personaly I see it as having confidence in our WR core .. Both moves came after OTA's started and getting a glimpse of the guys we had and the guys we drafted. As for getting something for Decker, perhaps Mac tried .. But non #1 receivers comming off surgeries and about to enter declining years of play would not be something ill be ready to give anything for. Especially when the whole scenerio requires a fool to be the trade partner .. Comon guys the whole league knows he would be had for nothing .. Mac would have to be a Jedi to pull that off!
We have a lot of young talent in our wide receiver group with Enunwa, Anderson, Steward, Hansen, and Peake which is I why I can somewhat understand releasing Decker. It's odd because if we plan on rolling with either Hackenberg or Petty, then having that vet WR to lean on would be a major asset.
Jesus christ get off the rag. Decker is proven commodity in the NFL that any team looking to a make a run this year would have considered parting with an 2018 5-7 round pick.
Perhaps, but I don't envision us getting someone better than Decker without giving away assets. This is just puzzling.
I would agree if he were a #1 WR, not coming off injuries, wasnt his current age, the Jets were not rebuilding and letting go of vets, and if we hadnt been adding young WR's (who showed lots of promise and have lots of promise) for two years. With the whole league knowing our scenerio, if he were that desireable, Mac would have been contacted by a GM knowing he could be had for cheap. Any competent GM would have waited Mac out .. wouldnt you have lol?
as if its not hard enough to trade a guy coming off 2 surgeries , let me ask you this , how do you trade a player when the entire world knows that he will be released shortly ?
We already added Patton earlier .. Imo Walt , We have vets already and many talented receivers needing reps and snaps. I really think they might have saw enough in OTA's out of Decker and the young guys to push the decision through.
If this happened at the same time last year I would have the puzzling feeling .. Until yesterday I felt puzzled that we were keepin him lol.
That right there is the truth sir! Im adopting that phrase for lots of our young guys .. They all are on a team offering the opportunity of their short careers .. Im surprised their camp wasnt flooded with more tryouts .. Or maybe they were at capacity. Sink or Swim!!!
harris is a 30+ year old 2 down LBer with a 6.5 million dollar salary. he had no value to trade. Plus at least releasing him allows him to do what he wants. he deserves that much for what he's done here instead of trying to squeeze out a 7th round conditional pick from someone. Decker we are trying to trade, if we can't get any return we'll release him. the market speaks for itself. the chiefs just released maclin who is arguable better then decker for nothing. and they have been a winning teams for quite a while. cutting players isn't mismanagement.
Because for a lot of teams it's better to give up a 5th or 6th round pick to get a guy already on contract and not compete with other teams or have to pay a signing bonus
You hope a team sees it as easier to throw us a draft pick than to have to negotiate with decker, do the whole visit thing and hope he chooses you.
Parting with a pick for a guy with 2 recent surgeries? Take your rose colored glasses of, then untie the blindfold.
