Shefter--Cards in talks with Q on Extention

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not a fitz slam...but how much do you wanna bet its less money, more years, and takes half the time.
 

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If that is true, I think it's very smart to do that now. With Rosenhaus as an agent, my concern is he will hold out of training camp. This would let Boldin know he's just as important and prevent ego-bruising.
 

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not a fitz slam...but how much do you wanna bet its less money, more years, and takes half the time.

Uh, I don't think Drew Rosenhaus will let himself be upstood by Eugene Parker.

Plus, the situations are radically different. Boldin's salary this year is only 2.5mil, with a cap hit of 4. Of course, it will be easier to make him and his agent happy.
 
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Uh, I don't think Drew Rosenhaus will let himself be upstood by Eugene Parker.

I think Q knows why Fitz got the money he did. If you ask many of us, Q is worth more than Larry, but you can't put his effects on paper. I think Rosenhaus will be the main reason this takes awhile. Great move by the Cards if you ask me. Q is a cornerstone for this franchise. Make and keep him happy.
 

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If that is true, I think it's very smart to do that now. With Rosenhaus as an agent, my concern is he will hold out of training camp. This would let Boldin know he's just as important and prevent ego-bruising.

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oh damn...he's a rosenhaus client? we're screwed

Yep, he fired his original agent and Rosenhaus had him sit out of a minicamp to force the Cards to the table. Half the board wanted him traded, but he had a new deal within a couple of months.
 

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The only thing I dont like about it is that Q has less bargaining poer at 30 then does at 27.
 
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I think Q knows why Fitz got the money he did. If you ask many of us, Q is worth more than Larry, but you can't put his effects on paper. I think Rosenhaus will be the main reason this takes awhile. Great move by the Cards if you ask me. Q is a cornerstone for this franchise. Make and keep him happy.
I love how some of you guys forget that there is a salary cap.


News Flash Everyone---- The Cards have been a good passing team practically they're entire time in Arizona. WHAT HAS THAT GOT THEM????????????????????????????????????

Successfull running games win football teams. We are making that harder to do by giving all of this money to WRs. By giving big money to this position, it has now become 100% impossible to retain Dockett Dansby and Wilson and still field a competitive team. No chance.
 

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I love how some of you guys forget that there is a salary cap.


News Flash Everyone---- The Cards have been a good passing team practically they're entire time in Arizona. WHAT HAS THAT GOT THEM????????????????????????????????????

Successfull running games win football teams. We are making that harder to do by giving all of this money to WRs. By giving big money to this position, it has now become 100% impossible to retain Dockett Dansby and Wilson and still field a competitive team. No chance.

No it is not impossible. But unlikely that any team would keep all of them anyhow.
 

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Ok first off I just watche dthat video and cardsfanmd is completely wrong! Sorry dude.

Adam Schefter DID NOT say that we are in talks with Q for an extension right now.
 
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What he said was that we have created a problem with giving Fitz this money because many people around the league feel that Q is a better WR than Larry and now Larry is making close to 4 times as much as Q.

He inferred that he wont be happy and will want to get a new deal. Not that they were working on one. Only that we have created issues with Quan now.
 
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I love how some of you guys forget that there is a salary cap.


News Flash Everyone---- The Cards have been a good passing team practically they're entire time in Arizona. WHAT HAS THAT GOT THEM????????????????????????????????????

Successfull running games win football teams. We are making that harder to do by giving all of this money to WRs. By giving big money to this position, it has now become 100% impossible to retain Dockett Dansby and Wilson and still field a competitive team. No chance.

Yes. I completely forgot about the salary cap. Silly me. We've only been stressing over it for the past few weeks.

NEWS FLASH!!! We have 2 of the best WR in the game. I'd rather them get paid to be here than anywhere else. You are basically saying we can only win by paying all these players huge money. I agree that Wilson and Dansby should be payed. Maybe if someone other than this handful of players could perform, we would win more. A few made kicks here, tackles there. This core should be among our well payed. Do the Patriots have a football team full of enormous contracts? Their role players do their jobs and they win.
 
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What he said was that we have created a problem with giving Fitz this money because many people around the league feel that Q is a better WR than Larry and now Larry is making close to 4 times as much as Q.

He inferred that he wont be happy and will want to get a new deal. Not that they were working on one. Only that we have created issues with Quan now.
No, Shane. I just rewatched it. He did nopt say exactly what I said but he didn't say what you said either.

He said that the Cards tried to talk to Q before they had Fitz done and he said that he would wait until Larry's deal was done. Then Shefter said that now that Fitz's deals is out the way the team has shifted their issues from Fitz to Q.

I love it. Everyone is soo giddy that we have Larry and cap space. Umm no. All 8 mill we just saved are going to Q. Bet on it.
 
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Yes. I completely forgot about the salary cap. Silly me. We've only been stressing over it for the past few weeks.

NEWS FLASH!!! We have 2 of the best WR in the game. I'd rather them get paid to be here than anywhere else. You are basically saying we can only win by paying all these players huge money. I agree that Wilson and Dansby should be payed. Maybe if someone other than this handful of players could perform, we would win more. A few made kicks here, tackles there. This core should be among our well payed. Do the Patriots have a football team full of enormous contracts? Their role players do their jobs and they win.
You make ZERO SENSE WHATSOEVER!!!!!!!!!!!

Do you think before you type? You are complaining about monster contracts, yet you praise the team for giving a WR 11 mill per year. I never said we needed to pay anyone big money, so go put words in someone else's mouth. I really dont have the time to waste on you.
 

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No, Shane. I just rewatched it. He did nopt say exactly what I said but he didn't say what you said either.

He said that the Cards tried to talk to Q before they had Fitz done and he said that he would wait until Larry's deal was done. Then Shefter said that now that Fitz's deals is out the way the team has shifted their issues from Fitz to Q.

I love it. Everyone is soo giddy that we have Larry and cap space. Umm no. All 8 mill we just saved are going to Q. Bet on it.

Sorry dude you are hearing what you want to hear. He said exactly that they have shifted their "issues" to Q(meaning problems). That in no way implies they are at the bargaining table. Just says they will now have issues. I believe he is right too. NO WAY IN HELL Fitz should make 4 times the money Q does.

Besides the approach to Q was piss poor. We already know that the only thing they offered was to increase his base salary by 2 million per year. Nothing guaranteed. No player would exept that IMO.
 
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Sorry dude you are hearing what you want to hear. He said exactly that they have shifted their "issues" to Q(meaning problems). That in no way implies they are at the bargaining table. Just says they will now have issues. I believe he is right too. NO WAY IN HELL Fitz should make 4 times the money Q does.

Besides the approach to Q was piss poor. We already know that the only thing they offered was to increase his base salary by 2 million per year. Nothing guaranteed. No player would exept that IMO.
This happened because team RG blows. Can we atleast agree on that??
 

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I love how some of you guys forget that there is a salary cap.


News Flash Everyone---- The Cards have been a good passing team practically they're entire time in Arizona. WHAT HAS THAT GOT THEM????????????????????????????????????

Successfull running games win football teams. We are making that harder to do by giving all of this money to WRs. By giving big money to this position, it has now become 100% impossible to retain Dockett Dansby and Wilson and still field a competitive team. No chance.

I bet the Patriots and Colts would somewhat disagree with that. Two teams that are much better at the pass that have learned to be good at the run. Teams that are one dimensional rarely win anything. As for not being able to retain people, the Colts have managed to keep Manning, Wayne, Harrison and Freeney to massive deals. Some of their OLinemen are making good money too. The Patriots have kept 3-4 key players and recycled everyone else. Good teams pick a few guys to keep together and have to rotate the rest, it is a fact of football. Bad teams like the Cardinals historically were, let their best players go and hope for the best with a constant youth movement.
 

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