DMN Blog: It'll take a Tommy Kelly-type contract (50m) to keep Canty

[wileedog]

Cantys agent is just startin way high.

There's starting high and there's being high.

His agent is cold stoned if he thinks he's even in the right neighborhood, and I hope for Canty's sake he's not telling him that what he is worth.

 

[tomson75]

Sign Haynesworth for that money,,,,, I am tired of the average to solid players thinking they should be paid all pro money !

Haynesworth would need considerably more loot than that.

 

[WG5516]

The article doesn't say that's what Canty expects. Canty has said several times that he wants to stay here, he just didn't feel appreciated.

His #s may not be outstanding but it's a guy that's usually to the right of him that goes nuts on QBs. Everyone isn't going to have monster #s, for the most part Canty has done his job.

 

[trueblue1687]

Dreamer.

 

[WoodysGirl]

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Canty's got options
3:47 PM Thu, Feb 28, 2008 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz
Albert Breer E-mail News tips

Just got off the phone with Chris Canty's Boston-based agent, Brad Blank, who said that his client is fine with being tendered a one-year, $2.017 million offer from the Cowboys.

The tender restricts his professional mobility, because the first-round compensation will keep most, if not all, teams from pursuing him. But with the market out there for defensive linemen in 2008 -- on clear display with the new deal Tommy Kelly reaped in Oakland -- it'd be hard to rule anything out. So Blank won't.

"I congratulated (Canty), because now he's a millionaire, and that was not necessarily true until now," Blank said. "Chris was smiling and he likes it in Dallas, but there are still several possibilities here. One is trying to get an offer from another team, which would probably be one with a low first-round pick, for obvious reasons. Another is to redo a deal with Dallas, which I haven't heard from them on yet. And finally, with all these guys get tendered high, there's the possibility they wind up getting traded for something lower than the tender (compensation).

"I'm not going to explore all those options because Chris is unhappy. I'm doing it because it's my job to look at all of the possibilities."

Of course, with Canty being an ascending player in the league, it'd be easier for him to try and get what Kelly did in Oakland with a lower tender offer.

But if any team was hesitant to tender a valued player high in the past, they'd certainly think twice now, after the events of last year..

"I think Wes (Welker) has certainly had a big impact on the restricted market and how teams view it," Blank said.

Last February, the Dolphins tried to pinch Welker, tendering him at the second-lowest level with a one-year, $1.35 million deal, which had second-round compensation attached. It backfired, as the Patriots stepped in and put an offer sheet on Welker that contained poison-pill language, making it prohibitive for the Dolphins to match.

Eventually, the two teams got together and worked out a trade, with New England tossing in a seventh-round pick as a sweetner. One-hundred-and-twelve catches later, Welker proved himself perhaps the best slot receiver in the game. And the Dolphins were left with C Samson Satele, now a starter, and DE Abraham Wright, who projects to backup in a Bill Parcells 3-4 this year.

So that cautionary tale shows why teams are taking few chances in these matters this time around.

Who's got next?
4:53 PM Tue, May 20, 2008 | Permalink | Yahoo! Buzz
Tim MacMahon E-mail News tips

(UPDATE: Whoops! Forgot about DE Chris Canty, who will play under the first-round tender this year. He's definitely a part of the Cowboys' long-term plans, but Crazy Al Davis screwed up the market by giving DT Tommy Kelly a seven-year, $50.25 million contract with $18.125 million guaranteed. A deal like the one Justin Tuck got from the Giants (five years, $30 million, $16 million guaranteed) would be much more reasonable.)

 

[tunahelper]

Maybe the bottle incident hurt Canty's brain more than we knew?

 

[This is Our Year]

Looks like Canty will be a phin

 

[Everlastingxxx]

Just for the record. I think Canty is a great player is worth whatever he gets. High character guy, solid player. Too bad the organization is already locked up with chemistry killing players.

 

[Idgit]

Canty will have a ballpark offer in his back pocket, then he'll go and test the market. If someone is willing to hugely overpay for him, he's gone. Otherwise, there's a good chance he'll be back.

Either way, he's a class act and a hard worker. He's a free agent, who didn't cash in on his first round ability in the draft, and it's perfectly ok for him to get what he can. I really like the guy, and I'd hate to see him go.

 

[SLATEmosphere]

I would be SHOCKED to see if he ever got this deal from anybody..thanks Tommy Kelly!! lettin all the googlers in the world demand insane money!

 

[Randy White]

the comp pick in 2010 and replace him with a draft pick or two in this year's draft. I personally like the guy and was rooting for him, but he didn't step up as I thought he would and for his contritubtions, the Cowboys can and will absolutely find somebody who costs a heck of alot less. The market for the Cowboys d-linemen has been set with Ratliff. If you can match his contributions, you might get a similar or slightly better contract that he signed for. If you don't, you don't.

Nothing personal, just business..

 

[Rack]

DMN Blog: It'll take a Tommy Kelly-type contract (50m) to keep Canty

If that's the case then let him go and give that money to a behemoth (sp?) NG and move Ratliff to RE.


If there's even a NG in FA available that's worthy of such a contract. If not, then get the best one available, give him LESS money and still move Ratliff to RE.

 

[pgreptom]

Buh bye.

50 million? Absurd.

 

[fanfromvirginia]

Wow. It appears we've reached consensus. Is this a first?

I doubt anyone is dumb enough to pay Canty Al Davis Schtoopid Money but at least one team will be willing to pay him more than we are.

So, having said that, here I go again: gimme a big, run-stuffing NT, dagnabbit, and shift Ratliff to DE (or split his snaps between NT and DE).

 

[burmafrd]

Canty has been a good player but has not stepped it up as we had hoped. Now maybe the one year tender would be a good thing-he would REALLY be encouraged to pore it on next season. And we could draft a big body to replace him this upcoming draft, and be ab le to let him take a year to learn without expecting anything from him or needing to.

 

[DCBoysfan]

I worry about any agent that uses a contract by Al Davis has his starting point..lol..

 

[Concord]

Canty worth 50 million?!

Good Lord.

No frickin way.

 

[McCordsville Cowboy]

Canty worth 50 million?!

Good Lord.

No frickin way.

He isnt Richard Seymour...

He plays the run well but not that well. Hatcher is big enough to fill void and Spears will get some more PT to. Let him go Jerry.

 

[YosemiteSam]

 

[Monster Heel]

It's been real, Chris.