NFL Free Agency Thread

[Ring 6]

Hard to believe Kubiak would take the guy his mentor found to be incompetent.

 

[Love The Drake]

When was Vrabel high on Ebner?

When he worked him out at Ohio State

 

[Ring 6]

7 million for a WR who realty isn't even starting caliber is nuts.

 

[Ring 6]

When he worked him out at Ohio State

That's kind of a stretch.

 

[fnordcircle]

Hey guys I hear this is the place to come and forget about 15 years running of top notch roster management and freak out that the Pats aren't playing a 3rd string WR 20394820 mill a year.

 

[Love The Drake]

That's kind of a stretch.

Just saying if not us thinking Houston

 

[Ring 6]

Hey guys I hear this is the place to come and forget about 15 years running of top notch roster management and freak out that the Pats aren't playing a 3rd string WR 20394820 mill a year.

Welcome, have a fun time.

 

[borg]

Jacksonville would throw 20 mil at him this year.

Carnival Cruise Lines would throw in $5 mill / year to have Gronk in Jacksonville boosting the cruise biz out of the Port of Jacksonville….probably name a ship after the guy.

 

[Ross12]

Hey guys I hear this is the place to come and forget about 15 years running of top notch roster management and freak out that the Pats aren't playing a 3rd string WR 20394820 mill a year.

You've come to the right place. Pull up a chair.

 

[Clonamery]

Hey guys I hear this is the place to come and forget about 15 years running of top notch roster management and freak out that the Pats aren't playing a 3rd string WR 20394820 mill a year.

Only if you've been banned.

 

[BadMoFo]

Jeff Howe ‏@jeffphowe 2m2 minutes ago


Regarding C.J. Anderson, the expectation is the Broncos will match just about any offer sheet extended his way, per source.

 

[DaBruinz]

e.g. this tweet



The Patriots only have 4 receivers under contract. They need a receiver. He was told that by looking at Wikipedia and applying common sense. Per Loyko, they're "in" on every receiver who's available that you've ever heard of. This is ******** punditry at its finest. I'm told every team whose kicker is a free agent is in on a kicker, too. My sources tell me this.

If you're going to slam Loyko, the least you could do is do it with actual facts.

The Patriots actually have 6 WR under contract currently.
Edelman, Amendola, Martin, Dobson, Harper, and Carter.

People complain about the Patriots WR depth, but forget that the only reason it became an issue was because Edelman, Amendola and Dobson were all hurt at the same time last year. NO TEAM is going to be good when they lose 3 of their top 4 WRs and are having to rely on numbers 3,5,6,and 7. And that doesn't take into consideration that numbers 3 and 5 both played hurt as well.

So, while adding a FA WR like Jones, Benjamin, Randle, or a Sanu, Matthews, Kearse would be nice, it's not a necessity. Not when the Patriots tend towards the 2 TE set more than 4 and 5 WR sets.

 

[Love The Drake]

Charles Johnson is how I wish every player was in free agency

 

[Gronk]

That's kind of a stretch.

Naw this is solid intel. I heard they had a great lifting session, wore the same color shorts, and talked about girls.

 

[meatface]

I would have liked to have gotten Sanu, they better have had some other reason for cutting lafell because his contract would have been a huge bargain.

 

[Ring 6]

Just saying if not us thinking Houston

I don't think that a telling sign of what team signs a special teams playing safety is that their LB coach made a positive comment at his pro day.
There are 32 special teams coaches that have studied how he actually has played for a number of seasons in the NFL that would be more pertinent.

 

[Love The Drake]

Jeff Howe ‏@jeffphowe 2m2 minutes ago


Regarding C.J. Anderson, the expectation is the Broncos will match just about any offer sheet extended his way, per source.

Poison pill?
I know I know
if im BB game on Id try to see if I can get him at 3 to 3.5

 

[VectorPrime]

If you're going to slam Loyko, the least you could do is do it with actual facts.

The Patriots actually have 6 WR under contract currently.
Edelman, Amendola, Martin, Dobson, Harper, and Carter.

People complain about the Patriots WR depth, but forget that the only reason it became an issue was because Edelman, Amendola and Dobson were all hurt at the same time last year. NO TEAM is going to be good when they lose 3 of their top 4 WRs and are having to rely on numbers 3,5,6,and 7. And that doesn't take into consideration that numbers 3 and 5 both played hurt as well.

So, while adding a FA WR like Jones, Benjamin, Randle, or a Sanu, Matthews, Kearse would be nice, it's not a necessity. Not when the Patriots tend towards the 2 TE set more than 4 and 5 WR sets.

You are counting on Dobson being our 3rd WR. Really? Are you kidding me?

 

[meatface]

Charles Johnson is how I wish every player was in free agency

I will never hold it against players getting as much money as possible, NFL careers are short

 

[ctpatsfan77]

That's kind of a stretch.

I'm fairly sure that when the Pats scouts/coaches talked to Vrabel (who was a coach at OSU at the time), he did offer praise for Ebner.

That's not a reason for him to sign there, by itself, but it might be a factor.