Schefter: Trent Brown 4 years $66 million with Oakland

Angelpats said:

So many factors come Into play when talking sack numbers. We didn’t have Edelman in 2017 so Brady held the ball too long on all those deep routes we kept on running. It was a problem this past year too until Edelman finally came back and gave Brady the quick release we needed.

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We saw chip blocks missed, too, as another example.

rochrist said:

Yeah. I'm a little concerned that he's coming off a torn achilles though. Those don't heal quickly and he's a big guy which compounds the issue. We may be looking at starting the year with LaArian Waddle starting. Assuming they can resign him.

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The only thing working in our favor there is that he injured it early on in training camp, giving him the maximum time to heal

Vince Wilfork was able to recover from that injury as a 330lb 30+ year old defensive lineman, so a young 23 year old certainly can

manxman2601 said:

Somehow I doubt Drew Rosenhaus just took the first offer made. And it would depend on the woman. If Jennifer Aniston proposed, it wouldn’t take me 13 minutes to accept.

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But that would only make you look happy and accomplished from the outside, whether you are actually going to have a happy marriage with her or not is a totally different story all together. So in that light, this means you were not in for the long run at all but to do it to save face for others, which is exactly what the raiders did here.

JarOfMayo51 said:

The only thing working in our favor there is that he injured it early on in training camp, giving him the maximum time to heal

Vince Wilfork was able to recover from that injury as a 330lb 30+ year old defensive lineman, so a young 23 year old certainly can

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Definitely on your second point, I think part of the grim outlook for achilles injuries is that it's pretty unusual to see them in younger guys. Most torn Achilles that I can think, at least, were 30+ guys so the cards were stacked against them from the start.

Anecdotally at least, it seems that we've advanced to the point where you can reliably bet on guys--particularly young guys--coming back from a torn achilles. It's unlikely to be a career-ender in its own right. The bigger question seems to be how much of his explosiveness will get back. There's another good example of that in the NBA right now, with DeMarcus Cousins (age 28, 6'11, 270 pounds) coming back from his own torn achilles in one year and looking pretty good. His explosiveness isn't back yet, at least not all of it, but it's pretty good.

Having said all of that, I'd be lying if I said I'm bullish on the idea of a rookie coming off a torn achilles being penciled in as the week 1 starter at LT. I hope/expect some kind of contingency plan is signed just to establish some baseline level of production there that Wynn can hopefully succeed but where we aren't banking the season on him being able to start this year.

TBR said:

Not sure what Gruden/Mayock are doing. They're spending an insane amount of money on offense.

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yeah, you trade Khalil mack and then pay Trent Brown top OL money...

You trade Amari Cooper whom is younger and pay Antonio Brown 20million$ a year.

granted they got 1st rounders back for those guys.

BradyFTW! said:

Having said all of that, I'd be lying if I said I'm bullish on the idea of a rookie coming off a torn achilles being penciled in as the week 1 starter at LT. I hope/expect some kind of contingency plan is signed just to establish some baseline level of production there that Wynn can hopefully succeed but where we aren't banking the season on him being able to start this year.

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Get Waddle back for cheap, sign a veteran tackle on the market 3-4 weeks after FA on the cheap and if that is not an option trade for a high floor guys on a cheap deal that are stuck on the bench. And then let all the pieces fall into place during camp.

RIpats88 said:

yeah, you trade Khalil mack and then pay Trent Brown top OL money...

You trade Amari Cooper whom is younger and pay Antonio Brown 20million$ a year.

granted they got 1st rounders back for those guys.

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They desperately needed a left tackle.

luuked said:

Get Waddle back for cheap, sign a veteran tackle on the market 3-4 weeks after FA on the cheap and if that is not an option trade for a high floor guys on a cheap deal that are stuck on the bench. And then let all the pieces fall into place during camp.

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Yeah, pretty much. With luck, the next Trent Brown falls into your lap: some other team is changing coaches and blocking scheme, and suddenly has a tackle in the last year of his deal that they have little use for in their new scheme and will part with for a mid-round pick.

TommyD4207 said:

They desperately needed a left tackle.

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they did, and thanks to the contracts they gave to Brown and Brown they're going to desperately need a lot of things in the next couple years. If they hit on all their first rounders it could work out just fine, with these contracts coming off the books right as they need to extend the young talent they'll draft over the next couple years with their wealth of picks.

But they've left themselves with very little margin for error. They've got to hit on basically every pick.

BradyFTW! said:

they did, and thanks to the contracts they gave to Brown and Brown they're going to desperately need a lot of things in the next couple years. If they hit on all their first rounders it could work out just fine, with these contracts coming off the books right as they need to extend the young talent they'll draft over the next couple years with their wealth of picks.

But they've left themselves with very little margin for error. They've got to hit on basically every pick.

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If T. Brown were 30 instead of 25, I'd be killing the Raiders way more. That contract will be a bargain in 3 years, if he plays 80% of what he did here.

A. Brown...all I've got is that they did upgrade WR from Cooper, and he's a name they can market in Las Vegas.

TommyD4207 said:

That contract will be a bargain in 3 years, if he plays 80% of what he did here.

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Brown is a right tackle that Dante molded into a left tackle. The Raiders will be lucky to get 50% of what he did for the Patriots.

And the Raiders drafted a LT in the first round a year ago. If they are giving up on Miller after a year that reflects badly on Tom Cable and it is not an encouraging sign regarding what Cable will do with Brown.

Will Trent Brown play left tackle or right tackle?

Raiders might have paid $66 million for a RIGHT tackle.

Nice gesture by Trent Brown.