Free Agents Discussion

[Racehorse]

Originally Posted by Puck

How is this possible when we only had 53 million or so available?

I think it is referring to total dollars over the life of the contract, or guaranteed dollars. Certainly, it is not a one-year number.

[sherck]

Originally Posted by Puck

How is this possible when we only had 53 million or so available?

That $83m number is the total contract amount. The contracts for Doyle, Sheard and Simon count for almost all of the out-year amounts.

Cheers,

[Wyatt]

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Dolphins To Host LB Zach Brown On Visit

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[Wyatt]

@Colts 1m1 minute ago
We have signed TE Brandon Williams

[GoBigBlue88]

Ballard out here signing a lot of JAGs. Which is whatever. Creating competition is his thing. But not holding out hope more than half of these guys even make the roster.

[sherck]

Originally Posted by GoBigBlue88

Ballard out here signing a lot of JAGs. Which is whatever. Creating competition is his thing. But not holding out hope more than half of these guys even make the roster.

I think that is unlikely.

Hunt is competing for DE5 with McGill but otherwise, the cupboard was pretty bare at most of the spots.

I think all but Hunt will make the 53 since our talent at signed positions was terrible.

Cheers,

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[natagu23]

Originally Posted by sherck

I think that is unlikely.

Hunt is competing for DE5 with McGill but otherwise, the cupboard was pretty bare at most of the spots.

I think all but Hunt will make the 53 since our talent at signed positions was terrible.

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Competeing with McGill? There's no competition there.

An UDFA could probably beat out Hunt.

Ballard is just filling holes and going all in with the draft.

Most of the recent signees are not making the team except for Spence....maybe.

[ukcolt]

TE - Brandon Williams - Fighting for a roster spot as the third TE.
C/G - Brian Schwenke - Battling for the right guard spot, primary backup at C and G.
NT - Al Woods - In a competition with David Parry for the starting NT job.
DE - Margus Hunt - Will be in competition with T.Y. McGill and Arthur Jones along with any draft picks, but is renowned as a special teams ace, so probably has that as an advantage over both McGill and Jones.
OLB - Jabaal Sheard - Signed to be our starting OLB and primary pass rush specialist.
OLB - John Simon - Signed to be our starting OLB, with the hope that he will thrive given a chance of being a full time starter.
OLB - Barkevious Mingo - will be in a scrap for the 3rd, 4th or 5th OLB position with Ayers and any draft picks.
ILB - Sean Spence - will be one of our starters in the middle of our defense and should be the best coverage linebacker that we have had in possibly 10 years.
P - Jeff Locke - Almost sure fire starter.

So this free agency we have signed 3 certain defense starters, another guy who will see serious game time in a rotation at NT, and then the other guys are upgrades as backups with regards to anything that we have had in the past 5 years or so.

I like what we have done this offseason, you have to build your team through the draft, and add complimentary pieces to round out the roster.

[VeveJones007]

Originally Posted by GoBigBlue88

Ballard out here signing a lot of JAGs. Which is whatever. Creating competition is his thing. But not holding out hope more than half of these guys even make the roster.

Just filling out the roster in UFA, rolling over cap space to 2018 for the new coaches, schemes, etc.

These signings make it pretty apparent that Pagano is done.

[natagu23]

This is not the comprehensive strategy i was excepting trying to fill all the holes we have.

Again, if you're gonna go all-in with the draft as your sole way of retooling, you better nail your high picks.