The only thing that worries me in regard to Bradford is his receiving core. I just hope they dont become one of those teams that constantly neglect their QB, by passing on WR talent. I dont want them to be another one of those teams full of a bunch middle of the road 2 and 3s. Get the guy a true #1 if the opportunity is there.

I cant stand teams that so desperatley want their young QB to succeed. But all they do is surround them with oridinary possession receivers. And continue to pass on apparent elite WR talent year after year. It's an annoyance.

Cept for the fact the wonderlic don't mean **** one of the most useless stupidest Combine tests there is. lol

Charles Johnson resigns with Carolina for $76 million and 6 years.

Sure, the Falcons may have offered "only" $50 million, but over the 6 years, the Falcons are looking at 60+ wins. The Panthers? Probably half that number. Whatever. Have fun losing, loser.

U mad bro?

Bitter much? haha

Dude. 26 million dollars is a lot.

I'd take the 26 million extra dollars and the longer offseason but maybe that's just me.

Alex Smith signs with 49ers for 1 year, $5 million.

Don't worry, still plenty of time to overpay Ray Edwards or Jason Babin ;)

Wow, what a baby. At least he'll actually win games unlike you.

Um, really dumb question (?!?!)

But, I thought free agency wouldn't begin until later in the week? And teams could just resign current players / work out trades.

Is this a total open free agency like usual?

The point in quoting the Wonderlic score is to note that he is smart enough to pick up complex offenses without needing excessive training camp time to learn it. Smart people = learn faster, hence the abbreviated offseason will not affect him as much as, say, it would affect someone who scored far lower on his Wonderlic (like a Jake Locker).

Whoo......

No, no. Not only is $26 million not enough to stay at one team over another, but apparently the Falcons will be averaging over 10 wins a season for the next 6 years. How many 10+ win seasons have the Falcons have over their entire team history? 6.

Oh my.

Im not gonna lie...I think that's bad logic. So many great players scored low on their wonderlic test. Again, that test barely means anything.

Please. It might look good on paper, but we still have to see. Signing a bunch of high profile names won't do you any good for sure. Just ask Washington and Oakland. And I'm still not sold on Sam Bradford. McDaniels may make him better we'll see.

i think he meant 96 wins.

lol gotta love homers.

Yeah, about that...

$26 million > 30 wins.

He's getting close to a million dollars for every game he loses, according to your foolproof calculations (probably). Not to shabby for a consolation prize.

Ummmm what? Sure maybe after Flacco, Marino, Ryan, Unitas, Nameth, Roethlisberger and Sanchez.

From what I understand, they can't sign until Friday, but they can agree to deals now. It's basically a verbal commitment.

What does everyone want Johnson so badly?

I certainly don't.


Tee Hee.

Free agency has begun....but players cant officially sign until Friday. But we've already seen tons of players agree in principle to deals. There have also been a bunch of cuts...but these dont actually go into effect until Thursday.

But yeah, there is tons of FA action going on right now. Teams are free to talk to and negotiate with all unrestricted FAs. Trades can be worked out in principle as well.

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Hearing the Jags are gonna get Paul Posluszny. Don't have a link, just the word amongst Penn State people.

Yup, Jay Glazer just tweeted that. Sucks for the Bills.

I'll post this in here, too...just because he's my boy.

Dallas is looking to re-sign WR, Sam Hurd, but apparently he has received interest from several teams. Should be interesting to see how this develops. I could see myself being happy, regardless...since he's looking at a larger role either way, more than likely. Good for Sam.

http://espn.go.com/blog/dallas/cowbo...-to-return-now

He's played well his entire career, and then had a breakout season last year. I thought the deal was a bit much, but keeping him was and should have been the Panthers number one signing priority.

I won't disagree with anything you said, but I think the shock comes from the fact that this guy, entering his 5th year with 1 career double digit sack season, is now making more money than DeMarcus Ware.

That is a hell of a payday, and I'll be interested in seeing if he can keep up the production now that he'll be the unquestioned focal point of opposing blocking schemes.

A bit much is a bit of an understatement. There is no reason for him to be making more money than say, Demarcus Ware. But it is what it is.

I really think it is because Carolina has to reach 90% of the cap. I still hate that aspect of the CBA.

um yay i guess

In 2009, the last year under the old CBA that still had a cap and floor, It was $112 million with a cap of $128 million...about 87.5% of the cap was the floor.

So it's not a huge leap from the past CBA. It's just that a large number of teams absolutely gutted themselves in terms of salary last year with no floor, far more than what would have gone over the cap had it still existed. So that many more now need to overpay in order to get back up to it.

They should have given them two years then. Made the number lower for year 1 and then 90% for year 2. I just think contracts will be so inflated because of this.

Yanda agreed to a 5 year 32 million dollar deal with baltimore.


I have seen sources saying we are 16 or 20 million under the cap so depending on your source we are now roughly 9.5 to 13.5 million under the cap. I hope we can get Ngata long term so his 12.5 million dollar franchise tag goes down. Say we can get him to 100 million a year we will have 12 or 16 million of room. That is enough to make a play at Sidney Rice or Johnathen Joseph. But I doubt Aso.

Hmm... Interesting.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...arles-johnson/

More details on the Charles Johnson deal.

They do make a good point that it's probably better that Johnson got this money than Newton, as it easily could have been without the rookie scale. So on that point, I'll concede that it isn't too bad of deal.

But damn, it's still a mind **** for Charles freaking Johnson to shoot up the list of richest defenders like that.

I think Carlos Rogers would be a great fit in Baltimore, physical good covering corner, sure he has the worst hands on gods green earth but the Ravens have smaller guys and ball hawks, they really need a solid corner like Carlos, then you could start Wilson if you retain him or Foxworth on the other side while Webb and Jimmy Smith develop.

id want rodgers to come to the steelers, definitely bring him in if ike leaves. were used to corners not being able to catch, he'll fit right in