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Sign Jordan Matthews and Niklas
Trade Cooks and Gronk?
Lmao
5. I hadn't thought about Luke Jockel much before this thread, but I'm kind of warming to the idea. Given his draft position, his measurables HAD to have been great, yet his career has been so bad you just have to wonder where his head is at. Even the finest athlete won't succeed in this league if he doesn't love playing it. So THAT would be my biggest question in bringing him in for a look. Does he really want to succeed? So I guess the Pats need to find out why he failed. Was it attitude, coaching, injuries, etc? Whatever it was, once they figure it out, then the question becomes, "Can WE fix it?"
Bowman was quite good with the Raiders
The safety market is pretty bleak for the players. Tre Boston's better than Reid or Vaccaro and hes still out there. Goes to show, drafting a safety in the first round isn't very smart when you can get decent ones for pennies late in free agency.
The safety market is pretty bleak for the players. Tre Boston's better than Reid or Vaccaro and hes still out there. Goes to show, drafting a safety in the first round isn't very smart when you can get decent ones for pennies late in free agency.
The league continuing to legislate tough hits out of the game does not help safeties at all. At some point you might as well just use exclusively CBs just not to deal with 15yd penalties.It's difficult to understand what's happening in the FA safety market this year.
The league continuing to legislate tough hits out of the game does not help safeties at all. At some point you might as well just use exclusively CBs just not to deal with 15yd penalties.
It's difficult to understand what's happening in the FA safety market this year.
Rotoworld had 40 safeties listed, many of whom are primarily special-teamers - e.g., they included Ebner and Slater (??). About half of these original 40 "safeties" are 30 or older, and only four of those "30+" guys have been signed (including Slater).
Of the 40, a total of 16 have been signed/re-signed. Probably only five of those might be considered to be more than ST/#3-level players - and that includes Joyner, who was FT'd. The other four got contracts in the $3.5M - $5.5M APY range (making the top guy in that group the 23rd highest-paid safety in the league.
Vaccaro and Reid are both former 1st-rounders (2013) coming off 5th-year options at $5.676M. Boston, a 4th-rounder who was waived by the Panthers after three seasons, is coming off a 1-year, $900k deal with the Chargers (where his production was significantly better than in Carolina).
The average APY for the 25 highest-paid safeties for 2018 is $7.7M, which is roughly halfway between the 5th-year option rates for 2014 1st-rounders Clinton-Dix ($5.9M) and Jimmie Ward ($8.5M) . Those top 25 APYs range from Berry ($13M) to Burnett ($4.8M). An APY of $7.7M would be just inside the top-10.
I'd guess that either teams simply don't have the cap space to pay the freight for Reid/Vaccaro/Boston, or they're happy with their #1/#2 safety lineups. Looking at safety depth charts around the league, one might think that several teams might be in the market for a significant upgrade at safety, but who knows?
2018 NFL Depth Charts By Position | Ourlads.com
Anyway, it seems doubtful that Reid, Vaccaro and Boston will be unemployed for 2018, or even for much beyond May 8th. Reid and Vaccaro may not see $7.7M, but it seems doubtful that they'll be working for "pennies", either.
Niklas serves two things in my opinion. Check someone out who on paper has a all the tools to play TE and maybe put a little bit on pressure on Allen to restructure.
Matthews is pretty interesting. If it weren't for the logjam we already have at WR.
One down and the other to go?Sign Jordan Matthews and Niklas
Trade Cooks and Gronk?
Lmao
We haven't signed Matthews yet though.One down and the other to go?