NFL - Are You Ready For Some Football?!! - Post SuperBowl

[snoopy369]

Briggs was 6yr/36m according to ESPN. Seems low... wasn't he expecting something like 7-8m a year??

[SlowwHand]

6 million a year, and I think he can eek by.

[Kataphraktoi]

I cant understand why they are letting these players go.

[snoopy369]

Presumably, this reason?

[Theben]

Bears are talking about putting Hester into the wide receiver slot... so who else do we have left there?

[snoopy369]

Hester was in the WR slot last year...

[Lord Avalon]

Atlanta: Michael Turner in (6yrs, $34.5M, ~15M guaranteed,) Warrick Dunn out.

Pitt: Big Ben signed for 8 yrs, $102M (36M guaranteed).

Chicago: Griese traded to TB for undisclosed pick.

TN: sign TE Alge Crumpler to 2 yrs, $5M (1M signing bonus).

[Lord Avalon]

Originally posted by -Jrabbit
Eagles signed CB Asante Samuel to a six-year contract. ESPN's John Clayton says it's for $54 million, with $6 million in incentives.

Excerpted from Peter King's MMQB

Quote of the Week II

"I just want to be able to win and get back to the Super Bowl.''

--Philadelphia cornerback Asante Samuel, who got $20 million guaranteed in a six-year, $57 million contract with the Eagles on Friday.

If that's what was most important, then why didn't Samuel stay with New England? Does he, or his agent, really think the Eagles have a better shot to get back to the Super Bowl than the Patriots in the next two or three years?

"I just want to be able to win and get back to the Super Bowl.''

You know what I want? I want one of these guys, just once, to say, "You know, I do want to win, but facts are facts. The Patriots were only going to pay me $6 million a year. The Eagles went to $9.5M a year. Do I look that stupid to turn down all that money?'' But no. We have to hear this phony stuff about how players sign with lesser teams because they really want to win. Save us.

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Lord Avalon
Atlanta: Michael Turner in (6yrs, $34.5M, ~15M guaranteed,) Warrick Dunn out.

Pitt: Big Ben signed for 8 yrs, $102M (36M guaranteed).

Chicago: Griese traded to TB for undisclosed pick.

TN: sign TE Alge Crumpler to 2 yrs, $5M (1M signing bonus).

Griese traded: Hopefully we managed to get a 6th for him, but even a 7th will help (extra RG or whatever)...

Turner to Atlanta: Any chance we can turn that Griese DP into Jerious Norwood

[Lord Avalon]

Jets are signing up OL FAs: Damien Woody gets 5yrs, $25.5M, 11M guaranteed.

This seems odd to me, as he didn't cut it as a G for Detroit. He got a chance at RT because Foster sucked and IIRC a combination of suckage and injuries for others they plugged in there.

Guess Woody did well enough to get paid, though.

[snoopy369]

Why are the Jets running up the salaries the Bears will have to pay for mid-level-crappy OLs

[-Jrabbit]

This will save the Bears money. They already have plenty of mid-level crappy OLs on the roster -- at bargain prices.

Bears current WRs: Mark Bradley, Devin Hester, Rashied Davis, Mike Hass

Amazingly, Bradley and Hester are favored to start at this point. I'm OK with inexperience, but the real problem I see is with blocking. These guys are all runts. Say what you will about Moose's speed and hands, he was always a willing and capable blocker.

[Theben]

Originally posted by snoopy369
Hester was in the WR slot last year...

Right, but he hadn't been trained at the position yet. Not very long, anyway.

[Theben]

Originally posted by snoopy369

Griese traded: Hopefully we managed to get a 6th for him, but even a 7th will help (extra RG or whatever)...

Turner to Atlanta: Any chance we can turn that Griese DP into Jerious Norwood

He's traded for an '09 draft pick...

n other news, the Bears have decided to move forward without special teams standout Brendon Ayanbadejo, an unrestricted free agent who is slated to visit the New York Jets Monday.

bah.

[reismark]

Good to see Griese back, as we never should have let him leave two years ago. He knows the system, likely comes cheap, will play cheap, and allow us to get rid of some of the talentless hacks we currently have in the QB ranks *cough* *named Gradkowski* *cough* *hack*.