2019 Off-Season Discussion

[AmericanCrow]

As for the New York Football Giants

Your offseason reminder they hired Pat Schurmur

 

[exe ex machina]

Dream Teams seldom work tho.

 

[AmericanCrow]

Dream Teams seldom work tho.

 

[exe ex machina]

Browns will be super fun to watch, they SHOULD make the playoffs.

 

[quotemokc]

AFL should take note.

Drawn on inevitables are boring.

 

[exe ex machina]

Report: Beckham trade leads to revision of Vernon-Zeitler trade terms

Posted by Josh Alper on March 13, 2019, 8:03 AM EDT

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Tuesday night’s trade agreement between the Browns and Giants marked the second time that the two teams hooked up to exchange players this offseason.

A few days before agreeing to send Odell Beckham to Cleveland, the Giants agreed to a deal that saw linebacker/defensive end Olivier Vernon head to the Browns in exchange for guard Kevin Zeitler. There was also a draft pick attached to both players, but those picks will reportedly no longer be part of the deal.

The Giants were set to send a fourth-round pick – No. 132 overall — to the Browns, who would trade a fifth-round pick — No. 155 overall — along with Zeitler. Art Stapleton of NorthJersey.com reports that those picks will now stay put in light of the agreement on the Beckham trade.

In the end, that means the Giants will be sending Beckham and Vernon to Cleveland and getting back the No. 17 overall pick, the No. 95 overall pick, Zeitler and safety Jabrill Peppers.

 

[exe ex machina]

 

[AmericanCrow]

 

[Broken]

And to think a decade or so ago people we're moaning that the NFL was a no trade league. What a fun few offseasons we've had.

 

[drd23]

I don't think this was posted yesterday after the OBJ and Bell news



Seems like good value for the 9ers (on the trade side at the very least) to me

 

[drd23]

Got a big contract 2 years ago (i think) but his play has apparently fallen off a cliff recently

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

The inevitable....

https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/03/13/jaguars-release-blake-bortles-after-five-seasons

 

[rumply]

The inevitable....

https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/03/13/jaguars-release-blake-bortles-after-five-seasons

Jason Mendoza will be devastated...

 

[rumply]

 

[rumply]

looks like someone might be getting/expecting a suspended sentence...

 

[Sven]

The Onion gets it right......

Giants Consider Drafting Quarterback To Mentor Eli Manning

 

[exe ex machina]

Jon Gruden, Antonio Brown had a pre-trade film session
Posted by Mike Florio on March 13, 2019, 9:00 PM EDT

The Raiders are trying to get better, and strict compliance with the plain language of all rules may take a back seat to that goal.
The evidence first emerged on Monday, when the Raiders somehow negotiated a four-year, $66 million deal with Patriots tackle Trent Brown in a matter of minutes. Unless Brown pounced on an opening offer faster than Kramer negotiating a hot coffee settlement, the Raiders were talking to Brown’s agents before the window for permissible negotiating opened.
On Tuesday came Antonio Brown‘s claim on social media that he would be visiting the facility to meet coaches and work out with Derek Carr (they eventually worked out away from Raiders property), which seemed to violate the narrow permission that the Raiders had received from the Steelers to conduct a pre-trade physical.
During Antonio Brown’s introductory press conference on Wednesday, another curiosity emerged. Brown and Gruden had a pre-trade film session.
“Jon had 400 clips of Antonio in the office,” G.M. Mike Mayock said. “I walked in this morning, the two of them were sitting in there like little kids watching 400 cutups of Antonio. Everything he did. Everything. I mean, they were like little kids in a laboratory.”
While the Steelers continue to have no comment on Brown’s interactions with the Raiders before Brown officially became a member of the Raiders, it continues to be our understanding that the Steelers allowed the Raiders only to conduct a physical of Brown. The NFL also has no comment on whether the Raiders violated any rules by using the hours before the trade became official as an opportunities to do something that Gruden simply couldn’t do before the start of the offseason with any player: Sit in an office and study film.

 

[exe ex machina]

panthers release LT matt khalil

wtf

 

[exe ex machina]

raiders release mccarron

waste of a 5th
like bryant before, waste of a 3rd

 

[drd23]

 

[A11dAtP0w3R]

panthers release LT matt khalil

wtf

Wow, how much dead cap are we swallowing for that abortion of a contract...

Edit, answer: 14 mil

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

Wow, how much dead cap are we swallowing for that abortion of a contract...

Edit, answer: 14 mil

Read that they’ve designated a post June 1 cut so think dead cap hit reduces to $4-5mill?? Maybe?

 

[rumply]

Giants dead cap $33mil...

 

[A11dAtP0w3R]

Read that they’ve designated a post June 1 cut so think dead cap hit reduces to $4-5mill?? Maybe?

NFL contracts are a brain ****...

I read this this morning;

if I understand the situation correctly (and it is a complicated one), from a cap perspective even though the $7 million salary was not going to become guaranteed because he has not yet passed a physical, he was still going to be guaranteed an additional $1 million dollars just for existing by the end of the day today. Rather than let even that happen, Marty Hurney pulled the trigger on cutting the bait, line, and sinker since it was already wrapped around the pier anyway.

 

[exe ex machina]

Jesse James trades drama for big money

Posted by Mike Florio on March 15, 2019, 6:21 AM EDT

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Former Steelers tight end Jesse James says he’s glad to be away from all the drama in Pittsburgh. Getting paid a ton of money helps, too.

The player who caught only 30 passes and started only seven games last year ended up with a four-year, $22.6 million deal in Detroit. The details are as follows, per a source with knowledge of the transaction:

1. Signing bonus: $7.145 million.
2. 2019 base salary: $805,000 fully guaranteed.
3. 2020 base salary: $3.8 million, $2.55 million of which is fully guaranteed.
4. 2021 base salary: $4.95 million.
5. 2022 base salary: $5.7 million.
6. 2019-2022 workout bonuses: $50,000.

The deal includes a fifth year at a salary of $5.9 million, but the contract voids if James is still on the roster on the fifth day after the Super Bowl to end the 2022 season. The phony year bumps the perceived annual average from $5.65 million to $5.7 million. But, again, it’s a phony year; the real average is $5.65 million.

The deal also included up to $1.2 million in escalators for 2021 and 2022, based on playing time, catches, receiving yards, and touchdowns.

James was largely supplanted by Vance McDonald last year in Pittsburgh, with McDonald starting nine of the team’s 16 games.