Twitter: Eagles releasing LB Kendricks

[sjmike]

He probably would want to sign with Dallas and face the Eagles twice a year. They disrespected him by asking him to take a pay cut

 

[LocimusPrime]

Lee LVE and Kendricks with Jaylon and What’s his name as back ups would be legit

 

[Flamma]

Seriously???

Yes seriously. Our cap space is 5M with our top 51. You can look this up. That doesn't include our draft picks. We have ZERO room with our draft pick signed.

 

[Cowpolk]

Yes seriously. Our cap space is 5M with our top 51. You can look this up. That doesn't include our draft picks. We have ZERO room with our draft pick signed.

We never have cap problems if Jerry decides to pull the trigger he can and has found the money to sign anyone he wants to sign

 

[xwalker]

Yes seriously. Our cap space is 5M with our top 51. You can look this up. That doesn't include our draft picks. We have ZERO room with our draft pick signed.

There is something known as restructuring contracts to free up cap space.

 

[Beaker42]

Yup, I think LVE will be fine as he gets experience, but he IS a rookie. To expect him to turn into Ray Lewis immediately is a bit overblown (though, it'd be great if he does). We know what our defense is like when Lee's out, and the jury is still out on Jaylon. It's unwise to go into a season unprepared, and Kendricks would be a good insurance policy for our LBer group.

But, but, but - we’d have to cut one of our 15 OL or one of our 12 TE’s???

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

But, but, but - we’d have to cut one of our 15 OL or one of our 12 TE’s???

Sucks for them lol.

 

[Flamma]

There is something known as restructuring contracts to free up cap space.

I was only responding to "we have the cap space", not, "we can create the cap space". At the moment we don't have the space.

 

[CyberB0b]

I was only responding to "we have the cap space", not, "we can create the cap space". At the moment we don't have the space.

They can easily make room.

 

[irishline]

Yes seriously. Our cap space is 5M with our top 51. You can look this up. That doesn't include our draft picks. We have ZERO room with our draft pick signed.

Right now with all our draft picks signed we have a $9,164,005 in cap space free....

I have no idea what you are looking at...

https://overthecap.com/salary-cap/dallas-cowboys

If you are using sportrac.com their rookie pool amount is horribly incorrect from a top 51 standpoint (not to mention they have both the pool and rookie contracts themselves calculated into our spending)... Not a ton of money to spend but could fit a signing in. Could be more when we finally extend Martin.

 

[jterrell]

He was more like an 80% player. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/K/KendMy00/fantasy/2017

No offense but you are doing it wrong.

He played 59.21% of all defensive snaps.
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/phi/2017-snap-counts.htm

He did play 13% 61 total, of the special teams snaps.

But his grade was as a LB and he played slightly less than 60% of the defensive snaps.
He was replaced on passing downs making his grade slanted toward what he does best as a role player which is why it was higher than Coaches or Personnel guys would grade him.

 

[jterrell]

Right now with all our draft picks signed we have a $9,164,005 in cap space free....

I have no idea what you are looking at...

https://overthecap.com/salary-cap/dallas-cowboys

If you are using sportrac.com their rookie pool amount is horribly incorrect from a top 51 standpoint (not to mention they have both the pool and rookie contracts themselves calculated into our spending)... Not a ton of money to spend but could fit a signing in. Could be more when we finally extend Martin.

overthecap is wrong and still has as far back as orlando scandrick on the roster for 5m.
spotrac is the more up to date and better resource.

keep in mind money that is available after june 1st isn't available now.

 

[CyberB0b]

No offense but you are doing it wrong.

He played 59.21% of all defensive snaps.
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/phi/2017-snap-counts.htm

He did play 13% 61 total, of the special teams snaps.

But his grade was as a LB and he played slightly less than 60% of the defensive snaps.
He was replaced on passing downs making his grade slanted toward what he does best as a role player which is why it was higher than Coaches or Personnel guys would grade him.

There were 7 games where he played under 70% of the defensive snaps, including the last game against the Cowboys where everyone sat. There were 8 games where he played over 70%. He was dealing with some injuries in early in the season.

Using our own logic, Sean Lee is a 60% player:

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/dal/2017-snap-counts.htm

 

[Bowdown27]

We also gain few million because of scandrick being post June 1 so we would have room.

 

[jterrell]

There were 7 games where he played under 70% of the defensive snaps, including the last game against the Cowboys where everyone sat. There were 8 games where he played over 70%. He was dealing with some injuries in early in the season.

Using our own logic, Sean Lee is a 60% player:

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/dal/2017-snap-counts.htm

No Sean Lee is an injury-prone player that played 60% of the snaps because of missed time.
When healthy he plays 100% of snaps and is a 3 down player.
This is what a full time players fantasy snap page looks like https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/L/LeexSe99/fantasy/2017


Kendricks was a 30% of snaps player that saw his snap count increase dramatically because Jordan Hicks was injured.
And he made it to just under 60% for the year.
Kendricks played 26% of the snaps in 2016.
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/phi/2016-snap-counts.htm

He didn't enter 2016 nor 2017 as a real starter and wasn't going to be real a starter in 2018 either.

If he was graded on ONLY those 8 games where he played >70% of defensive snaps the grade would be more accurate but still incomplete.
PFF uses a per play scoring system and again they can only grade the player versus the snap he's in on. They have no grading for him being out.
They obviously can grade him versus both run and pass ...
But only when he is in the game not when the team judges him inferior to be involved.
End of day the grade doesn't matter because the team knows him and what it needs and cut him.

Part-time and small sample size guys often grade out extraordinarily high.
Sometimes that signals they are ready for more playing time.
Other times it means they have a well defined role which they excel in.

See Orlando Scandrick in slot versus as outside CB for his career.

 

[Flamma]

Right now with all our draft picks signed we have a $9,164,005 in cap space free....

I have no idea what you are looking at...

https://overthecap.com/salary-cap/dallas-cowboys

If you are using sportrac.com their rookie pool amount is horribly incorrect from a top 51 standpoint (not to mention they have both the pool and rookie contracts themselves calculated into our spending)... Not a ton of money to spend but could fit a signing in. Could be more when we finally extend Martin.

Yes, I was looking at Sportrac.

 

[BAT]

dude ....... nonsense, lol.
Irvin was a Jimmy guy at Miami but he was drafted before Jimmy or Jerry were Cowboys. Michael Irvin is a Jerry guy. He's as Jerry as a player gets.
His HOF presenter was JERRY JONES.
Guess who presented Emmitt Smith? Ding, Ding. Ding.
Troy Aikman? He went with Norv Turner.

Not a single Dallas Cowboys or anyone has been presented for the HOF by Jimmy Johnson.

Troy was NOT a Jimmy guy. Jimmy wanted Steve Walsh and he lost that battle to Bob Ackles and Jerry back then.
He didn't think Troy was a "winner". Those are his own words.

Jimmy wasn't recruiting Deion. Deion recruited himself to Jerry. Jimmy never did sign checks and Deion's move was about money. Jimmy was fired in March man. March. Deion himself will tell you he didn't need to talk to any coaches, he went straight to Jerry. Cut the check. Jerry did. If anything that signing set Dallas back 10 years as Deion gave Jerry full confidence he was an NFL GM for real.

LA has zero to do with Jimmy and had zero connection to him. He was an all-time great that any Coach woulda loved but he had zero ties to Jimmy. Like Deion boosting Jerry, the LA drafting boosted Lacewell. Jerry gave him more control over personnel and believed in him for years following that even though he drafted precious few decent players much less good or great ones.

Would Jerry have won SBs without ever hiring Jimmy?
Probably not.

Would Jimmy had won a title elsewhere in the NFL?
Probably not.

But Jimmy apologists who tell you he walks on water are insane. He is a career 55% winning percentage coach who won Super Bowls before the salary cap existed and never got passed the Divisional round in 4 years in is hand selected and lobbied for Dolphin job.
He didn't want to be in Dallas anymore and didn't want the grind so he got the friction going and got the buy out he wanted.
Then he hand picked his next gig only to jog in place because he never was an offensive coach.

His first staff in Dallas had recruited all the top talent in the country so they knew the draft cold. Joe Brodsky was standing on a table beating it for Emmitt Smith. Jimmy had wanted to draft a LB but they were taken so he traded down. Emmitt kept falling and they finally went up and got him.

What Jimmy does better than anyone maybe ever has is identify DBs. He could grab 6th round DBs every year who could start in this league. He had a special eye for DBs and he was way ahead of the curve loving smaller, faster LBs.

But offensively, Jimmy didn't have any acumen at all. And that showed up again in Miami

Troy, Emmitt and Mike were all Jimmy guys. That does not make them NOT Jerry guys, Jerry is not a coach. They all loved Jimmy as their coach, or at least appreciated how he was important to them winning championships as well as creating a winning culture.

You can belittle Jimmy all you want, it does not take away from what he produced on and off the field. That Belichick worships him only further supports Jimmy's acumen as coach, as well as talent and development guru.

 

[millennial_legend]

He probably would want to sign with Dallas and face the Eagles twice a year. They disrespected him by asking him to take a pay cut

Not really. They're going to pay Hicks what Hitchens/Bradham got, or better, long term and they can't afford 3 expensive linebackers since they're primarily a base nickel team.

 

[Rayman70]

kendricks can bring some juice . Sign him.

 

[CCBoy]

Since we may be looking for LB help, I figured it’s worth it to talk about especially since it’s a NFC East team.

He probably wants to start though.

Depends upon how well he matches up with the Cowboys' system. Oh, he's a good hitter and at the limits of his speed/money view...but nice to have.