We signed Clayborn!

[Joey007]

Sweet.

 

[BadMoFo]

Cool signing, but I'm sure this will be met with mixed emotions.

 

[long distance]

God or TB 12 or somebody give him health now!

 

[ctpatsfan77]

Over/ under on contract? I'll start at 3 years, $28M.

 

[Joey007]

Can’t quite understand why people are so down on him just because of how the sacks were piled up in one game.

Guy should be a good veteran presence on the edge that we sorely missed last year.

 

[patsinthesnow]

A legit quality EDGE rusher vs. left tackles. Now Flowers can be primarily an inside rusher with Butler coming in on passing downs. We have Wise & Rivers in the wings too.

A nice signing that helps give us a rotation we desperately lacked last season.

 

[Marqui]

Sigh...lets see what the damage is.

 

[FoxboroFlyer]

Gross. Unless it's under 4 which it most certainly will not. Better be incentive laden.

 

[Keyser Söze]

Gonna puke if we overpaid.

 

[Joey007]

Gross. Unless it's under 4 which it most certainly will not.

Give me your explanation why you consider it a gross signing

 

[Love The Drake]

Let's see the financial

 

[fightingirish595]

A legit quality EDGE rusher vs. left tackles. Now Flowers can be primarily an inside rusher with Butler coming in on passing downs. We have Wise & Rivers in the wings too.

A nice signing that helps give us a rotation we desperately lacked last season.

No

 

[FoxboroFlyer]

Give me your explanation why you consider it a gross signing

Umm he considered retirement last year after surgeries on both acl's and shoulder...other than that...nothing

 

[Love The Drake]

 

[50-yard-line]

Over/ under on contract? I'll start at 3 years, $28M.

I'll go UNDER - 3/23.5, 12 guaranteed.

 

[fightingirish595]

Can’t quite understand why people are so down on him just because of how the sacks were piled up in one game.

Guy should be a good veteran presence on the edge that we sorely missed last year.

Will surely help the run defense, but if people are expecting him to be a difference maker in the pass rush. Sadly Mistaken

 

[long distance]

Very solid signing considering. Pat type/fit.
Hopefully not another rehab addition.
DE filled. On to OT.

 

[FoxboroFlyer]

Does anyone have that tweet from the hot doctor who layed out his off season surgeries?

 

[ausbacker]

A legit quality EDGE rusher vs. left tackles. Now Flowers can be primarily an inside rusher with Butler coming in on passing downs. We have Wise & Rivers in the wings too.

A nice signing that helps give us a rotation we desperately lacked last season.

If only for depth, a defensive line rotation of:

DT: Brown, Shelton, Valentine, Guy
DE: Flowers, Clayborn, Rivers, Wise, Butler

Looks infinitely better than a few weeks ago. Throw in the return Hightower (we're still light on at LB) and I feel a lot better about the front 7.

 

[patsinthesnow]