I bet it was probably cheaper to trade up to #5 than it was to trade to #8 with Jacksonville and that is why the Jets pulled the trigger. Cheaper as in draft pick/player compensation. Think about it, The Bengals and Raiders were not taking Sanchez, the only logical thought is the Jaguars wanted too much to trade up. Thoughts?
You hit it right on the head. We were holding Mangina players for ransom. Cleveland telegraphed their desire to pick up Elam early in free agency; we held onto him and got something for him. Trading with Jacksonville would've cost us big time. Serviceable as they may be, no team in the league would've been satisfied with three role players and two picks for a top ten pick. The only, ONLY way this trade could've gotten better IMO, is if Mangini took Bryan Thomas instead of Coleman or Elam. Bryan Thomas is 0-infinity in bringing happiness to JCotchrocket.
I did think that way but in the direction of, it was cheaper to give up players more than picks. So, I think you can say both versions of cheaper. Can someone post how much salary we dumped that way we can compare it to Sanchez's salary when it comes about.
well supposedly the Jets had a deal worked out with the Jags for the 8th pick if Sanchez were there. I think it was "cheaper" to trade with the Browns because of the players the Jets had to send. Plus, i think it was safer to deal for th 5th pick then the 8th pick mainly because the Redskins and other teams were pretty much only working deals for the 8th pick. In a way, it was a blindside for the rest of the teams.
The way I hear it is that the Browns were receiving offers from both the Jets and the Redskins, and the Browns took the best offer. But the Redskins definitely would have gotten Sanchez at 5 if we didnt.
I did not know that. Interesting. Still, I doubt Jacksonville would have taken less than what we gave up. We also would have had to hold onto Ratliff, Coleman, Elam and involved more draft picks.
I know we're now at 12 million, saving for sure 4 million with Coleman. We'll probably pay San and Greene a combined 10-13 per year, so we should be right on the head as far as cap.
Kenyon Coleman - net savings = 8.5 million over 3 years; with a 3 mil base salary for 2009, plus 1/5 of his prorated bonus monies ($900,000) means we broke even for this season 3.9 million ~ the 4 million of dead bonus money we're saddled with. Abram Elam - $1.5 million/1 year contract - dead money = 300,000; Net savings = 1.2 million Brett Ratliff - net savings = $25 and a stick of wrigley's spearmint ...but seriously, it's negligible, we saved a couple hundred thousand from his salary as his accelerated cap hit is like 3 Gs. http://www.nyjetscap.com/salary.html www.rotoworld.com We had better info yesterday, but jetscap is just too damn quick with the updates:shit:
Yes. we had a deal with Eric. Then floated the Jags balloon. Little Danny was trying to get to 6, or 7, then we went to 5.
