Free agency thread 2022

[QuebecCard]

So when your boxing and win the first 8 rounds but continuously get knocked at the end of the fight that should be considered a success?

A 'moral' victory!

 

[slanidrac16]

Anyone on this board who has posted a thought on ownership, management, coaches or players can claim vindication to a degree.

Hey, we finally agree on something!

 

[Stout]

A 'moral' victory!

Is that better or worse than a pyrrhic victory?

 

[QuebecCard]

Hey, we finally agree on something!

And in no time, you'll be on the lighter, brighter side of life.

 

[QuebecCard]

Is that better or worse than a pyrrhic victory?

Given that a pyrrhic victory is worst for the winner than the loser, I'd prefer that.

 

[tnmike]

So when your boxing and win the first 8 rounds but continuously get knocked at the end of the fight that should be considered a success?

It worked for Rocky in the 1st movie

 

[tnmike]

Is that better or worse than a pyrrhic victory?

Let's leave sex out of it....lol

 

[Gandhi]

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Send a pick for Bradberry. He is better and cheaper than any options in free agency (not named Gilmore). I honestly don't trust Keim to use those midround- or late picks anyway.

 

[Ronin]

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[TheCardFan]

I didn't think we would go after any big name FA's but holding out hope that we can get a deal done with Za'Darius Smith.

Danielle Hunter (Vikings) might become available as well...he is due an 18m bonus on Sunday.

 

[BritCard]

Good stuff!

P.S. the English 'take a punt' is close to the American 'I'll punt', which has the opposite meaning.

Oh yeah..that's probably quite confusing.

 

[Ronin]

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[Syracusecards]

Why is there no interest for Rasul Douglas? Is there something I don’t know? I thought he played really well for the Packers.

 

[BritCard]

So when your boxing and win the first 8 rounds but continuously get knocked at the end of the fight that should be considered a success?

I mean, it's a terrible analogy. Football isn't so black and white.

If you want to use boxing as an analogy a better one would be that everyone said were a bum and were going to be terrible yet we won our first 7 fights, finished the year 11-6, earned a shot at the champs and got knocked out.

In which case, all those that said we were bums were wrong.

 

[BritCard]

Why is there no interest for Rasul Douglas? Is there something I don’t know? I thought he played really well for the Packers.

Heard looking for $10m per which is way too much.

 

[BritCard]

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[Syracusecards]

Heard looking for $10m per which is way too much.

That is a lot but starting CB’s are going to get paid that kind of $. If he’s good enough to be our starter, I would pay him. That contract will seem like peanuts in a couple years. Drafting CB’s is such a crap shoot. Eliminate that as a need and now we have more flexibility in the draft.

 

[Krangodnzr]

It’s early still, but surely you’re not arguing that at this juncture we are a better team than last year, are you?

Nope, but it's the same song and dance every year.

 

[RON_IN_OC]

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So clearing out some weapons, to get a quarterback you think will be better than who you have. I wonder where I've seen comments about that before? LOL

 

[BritCard]

So clearing out some weapons, to get a quarterback you think will be better than who you have. I wonder where I've seen comments about that before? LOL

They have Njoku and Bryant. Hooper has been largely wasted there. Better for everyone that he moves on.

He pushed 800 yards in his last year at the Falcons and hasn't done that in 2 seasons combined at the Brown's. He was getting paid a crap tonne of money for next to nothing.

 

[BritCard]

The more I think about the scarcity at Edge in FA and how the draft will play out the more I think all worthy Edge guys are gone by #23. Hutchinson and Thibodeaux obviously but also Walker, Johnson, Ojabo and Karfaltis (although not suitable). I don't think any of them fall to us.

I think Keim has to make sure he gets a pass rusher in FA or you're looking at guys like Drake jackson, Nik Bonitto and Ebiketie in round 2 (I think Mafe is gone by #55).

Bears traded Mack for a reason. They are well in the Edge market. Falcons, Browns, Cowboys, Chargers, Giants, Jags, Jets, Lions, Ravens, Texans. All really in need of pass rushers.

 

[Krangodnzr]

Hmm, childish insults. At least make them accurate, bub. Last year I was unhappy with who we signed, not that we weren't signing anyone. And, to one extent or another, I was vindicated, thanks much.

Which part is the insults?

The Cardinals stand pat through the early part of every FA period and you complain every year.

 

[Ronin]

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[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

Yeah that was always there. It was a void year to keep his cap hit down last year.

I don’t understand why people ignore dead money. It still hurts the team.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

I mean, it's a terrible analogy. Football isn't so black and white.

If you want to use boxing as an analogy a better one would be that everyone said were a bum and were going to be terrible yet we won our first 7 fights, finished the year 11-6, earned a shot at the champs and got knocked out.

In which case, all those that said we were bums were wrong.

But if you go with that analogy that boxer is done other than as fodder for future up and comers. A boxer with an 11-6 record and first round knockout by a guy who would become champ (but wasn’t at the time of the brutal beating - that wasn’t a title bout) gets thrown in the slag heap and doesn’t ever sniff any shot at the belt.

Regardless, it’s a silly comp.