Pace a Jet: $22M Guaranteed Reasons

[AsUdUdE]

Let me say this again..

HE WAS THE 3RD BEST LB ON AN 8-8 TEAM LAST YEAR.....

That said.... What happend to Miami? I thought he had already signed a deal?

 

[PoolBoy]

More like too bad the idiotic Cardinal organization couldn't comprehend how to draft players who actually fit into the team's scheme.

good point, and it actually makes me optimistic, because we now have a coach who knows what he wants, and will not be influenced by anyone. you better believe we will take players that make sense this year. and if we dont? then i give up but i think we will!

 

[PoolBoy]

wow i just saw the highest paid part....ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?! that makes me scared of what dansby will want.

 

[imaCafan]

So with that deal Pace got what's Dansby gonna want now?????? Doh! Beat me to it........

 

[Cbus cardsfan]

Anybody worried that LaBoy's agent sees this and ups the price on Travis?

 

[Ed Burmila]

Good luck with that, Jets. How quickly everyone forgets the 4 years he was complete dog meat here. He was a great player to have at last year's salary and a complete joke at $7 million per year.

Pass.

 

[Stout]

The ONLY thing that makes this a contract I wouldn't have wanted for him is that he gets 26 million in the first three seasons. It's a heavily frontloaded contract, or at least appears to be. If it was a backloaded deal, I'd be ripping the Cards right now for not matching it.

 

[Scott MS]

Now I think the Cards organization did the right thing. They should have locked him up prior to free agency, but no way should they have paid him $42M over 6 season.

 

[nashman]

for that money see yah, better players than him for that kind of money.

 

[SeattleCard]

22 mil - WOW!!!!!!!!!!

 

[nurnay]

See ya, Pace. Not worth that kinda scratch...

 

[football karma]

Now I think the Cards organization did the right thing. They should have locked him up prior to free agency, but no way should they have paid him $42M over 6 season.

yeah-- but can you imagine the reaction if the Cards gave him (lets say)
a 6 year, $36 mm deal with $17 mm bonus? It looks like a bargain now.

 

[cardsfanmd]

Seriously.. what are the chances that Calvin Pace... THE Calvin Pace lives up to a 6 year 42 million dollar offer??

I mean.. this has to be up there with paying Adona Foyle 9 million a year right....

ITs AWESOME for Pace, but I just don't see how the hell Pace can live up to being one of the highest paid LBs in history, when last year he was arguably our 3rd best LB....

UNBELIEVABLE

How do you figure that?????

 

[imaCafan]

Now I think the Cards organization did the right thing. They should have locked him up prior to free agency, but no way should they have paid him $42M over 6 season.

They tried and he declined because he wanted to test the FA market...

 

[MadCardDisease]

I'm so glad we renegotiated Berry to an extremely cap friendly number.

I'd gladly take Berry at $1.5M this year over Pace at $7M a year.

Pace has potential but that amount of money is just crazy!!!!

 

[RugbyMuffin]

Wasn't Anthony Clements a Jet as well?

He also is the worst football player of all time too.

 

[RugbyMuffin]

How do you figure that?????

1. Dansby

Arguement here is:

2. Hayes
3. Pace

 

[RugbyMuffin]

Good luck with that, Jets. How quickly everyone forgets the 4 years he was complete dog meat here. He was a great player to have at last year's salary and a complete joke at $7 million per year.

Pass.

Well, not everyone!

 

[Sandan]

Now I think the Cards organization did the right thing. They should have locked him up prior to free agency, but no way should they have paid him $42M over 6 season.

Sounds great but according to reports he didn't want to sign.

 

[abomb]

Sounds great but according to reports he didn't want to sign.

Link?

 

[cardsfanmd]

1. Dansby

Arguement here is:

2. Hayes
3. Pace

Check the stats. Pace was better than both of them. I am sure Dansby may have had the best stats had he played the whole year, but he didn't. If anything, that should say more about Pace being able to stay healthy for 16 games.

I love how everyone calls Pace a contract player yet no one mentions that Dansby didn't even work out in the offseason until last year.

 

[Cbus cardsfan]

Pace becomes one of the all time highest paid LB's and i'll bet not once in 5 years did an OC ever mutter ,"we have to account for #97", while game planning for the Cards. Unless,of course, you go back to Simeon Rice days.

 

[LoyaltyisaCurse]

The Jest just have a thing for former Cardinal players. Thomas Jones, Michael Barret, Pete Kendall,Calvin Pace, who else?

Johnny Johsnson

 

[Cbus cardsfan]

Johnny Johsnson

good one.Forgot all about him.

 

[football karma]

Pace becomes one of the all time highest paid LB's and i'll bet not once in 5 years did an OC ever mutter ,"we have to account for #97", while game planning for the Cards. Unless,of course, you go back to Simeon Rice days.

Here is the only thing I can figure--

The Cards played him on the strong side, which is ordinarily the offense's right side.

Maybe the Jets figure if they move him to the weakside, or the offense's left -- he becomes the second coming of Lawrence Taylor.

The difficulty is that at least on passing downs, the Cardinals tried that a couple times -- Pace's rookie year and 2006 after Berry went down -- and it just wasnt impactful.