I've seen ,ark barron discribed as "a skinny Lineback who can't hit or a slow safty who can cover". In otehr words, another Eric smith type. Barron's up side is higher than Smith, but he's nothing special. Not a first round pick worhty type play from most accounts.
I know cap space carries over in the new cba but this is the first I've heard anyone say it doubles when it carries over. Where did you get that from?
Barron's coverage issues are purely with slot receivers. He does well against tightends and particularly well against big physical tightends. The NFL has moved away from having safeties cover slot receivers at this point. Three wide means you have a nickelback in to cover the slot guy most of the time. This allows the safeties to continue to cover the tightend and go over the top on midrange routes. Speed is not an issue with Barron, who has consistently been in the 4.49 - 4.5 range. That's plenty of speed for a 218 lb safety.
I hope he took the cut to offset the buy out for Schotty leaving. I can see him saying "I will give you 500K to get rid of Brian and keep Moore."
I was still under the impression you lost whatever cap space you didn't spend on. Wonder if he's truly just taking a pay cut, then.
Most of the top FAs will be franchised if they aren't re-signed immediately. No chance we get Mario Williams.
I really have no interest in Landry. I'd rather go for a guy with less talent that will always be healthy. Plus Landry is an in the box safety, he's not going to help stopping Gronk. I really want Dashon Goldson. If not a Thomas Decoud or Tanard Jackson would be nice. Jackson was suspended last year so he might come cheap.
Wrong. Our Wrs are not very good. Not one team with a halfway decent secondary is afraid of our wrs. We need a deep threat, someone who can spread the field, because as of right now we don't have one
Yeah, I'm not sure where that idea came from. I know that when we used to restructure Curtis Martin's ridiculous Parcells deal, it wasn't to front load it, it was to back load it. I'll be interested to see the details of this restructure. Giving a player more guaranteed money is usually a move that benefits the now, not the future. Also be interested in seeing what other players get re-signed or restructured as a result of this.
If I understood correctly, he's not necessarily saying that it doubles, just that whatever is saved one season is added to the starting number the next season. So if the cap this year is $100m and we spend $91m, that $9m that was saved is added to the starting cap of $100m next year, making the starting cap $109m. It's like rollover minutes. I don't know much about the cap rules and don't know if that's necessarily true, but I think that's what I understood from it.
Yes, that's exactly how it works, but he's saying that the $9 million is somehow turning into $18 million. That's where I'm lost.
Our WR's are bad?? We have an excellent RZ threat, Holmes (which is self explanatory), and our third WR is really just in the air at the moment. Just because we lack a deep threat doesn't make our WR's bad. It just means that our scheme is bad (no this isn't a shot at Schotty, it just means we don't have the personnel to make teams fear the deep threat). It doesn't necessarily mean that our WR corp. is bad. We're just not complete in our WR set.
And if anyone thinks we r planning to release Sanchez, then please come back to sanity. Even if Sanchez loses the next three games and throws 2TDs against 9 ints, he'll still be our QB for next year.[/QUOTE] Absolutely. They will not give up on him now even if his play warranted it, which it does not
