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Signings, Cuts, Trades
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SepticeyePoe
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That's why I always get nervous before free agency is officially open
Davesta
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Probably Miller and Wolfe
JAAM
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He's bored lol
rmcjacket23
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1. If he plays, I would be surprised if it's not here. There's just no savings. Even as a post-June 1 cut, its only $2M in savings, and then it'll still carry $1.8M into next year.
2. Its certainly smart for him to not decide to retire now, considering his full $2M base salary fully guarantees on Sunday.
I think any "retirement" comes much later in the offseason. Likely into training camp.
Again, it's not as much about the savings here if we do move on. It's for relationship reasons if it happens.
rmcjacket23
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I mean OK. Is the relationship broken or something? Why would we move on if he can play and wants to keep playing?
Yeah that's the rumor as of now and why there's some skepticism surrounding it. Apparently there were a lot of miscommunications about his injury last year and it sounds like some trust has been broken. It's not a sure thing by any means but they aren't moving on for monetary reasons if they choose to do so. It's all tied to the relationship.
rmcjacket23
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I mean its a fine take, but at the same time, they've not drafted well either, which I would argue is their biggest issue.
Or perhaps put another way... a lot of their draft picks don't play well for them.
It's staggering how many high draft picks they have, especially high one's, who never signed extensions there. And like some of these guys are actually at least above average football players.
Allen Robinson, Yannick Ngakoue, Myles Jack, Jalen Ramsey, Leonard Fournette, Dante Fowler. Like some of these guys didn't live up to the hype, but have gone on to have very productive careers elsewhere. Even Cam Robinson, a 2nd round pick from 2017, they have to franchise tag twice.
Grim
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But you are assuming the Ravens won’t take an OT early because of your own biased perceived logjam at the position despite numerous question marks to the contrary and a major one with Stanley himself. If we had a stud LG that would mitigate some the LT need but I think we’ll address the position with a day 2 pick at the latest. I also suspect that whoever we get would be athletic enough to go inside too, which is another assumption you’re making.
Fact is, you make as many assumptions as anyone else. Doesn’t make you more right or wrong than anyone else.
id say that graph is probably more likely showing the result of poor drafting over time
i dont think its explicitly saying that wins are inversely correlated to spending in free agency like he seems to be suggesting...
to me its demonstrating that the teams that are winning more are the ones who have less to spend in free agency (because most teams spend up to the cap most years unless they're specifically in a rebuild) because they've spent their money and cap on their own players because they've drafted well (or acquired and identified cheap free agents/trades that they've then re-signed)
Didnt have one even with wolfe
i wonder how big this is - feel like if he'd got what he thought he might get before free agency that he'd have signed quickly
interesting - shaq barrett money which feels about right but only 500k/yr more than his last deal and less than harold landry (although he's younger)
Well Ngakoue is getting traded to the Colts lol
i wonder if this helps the market coalesce for ZDS? the only vaguely comparable guy just got 17m/yr
zadarius just coming off the same aav as jones too - i think this deal set the ceiling on his market
zadarius just coming off the same aav as jones too - i think this deal set the ceiling on his market