Recent Extensions

[diamonddelts]

Most every GM in the league would have signed Steele and Bland in the same context.

No they would not.

 

[diamonddelts]

False. Steele was average and coming off a huge injury. Bland has had one good year and is injury prone. Neither would have gotten anywhere near as much anywhere else

I'm starting to see a pattern with Lou Brown's posts. They get progressively worse each month. Even on basic simple Simon stuff. He gets it wrong every time.

 

[diamonddelts]

I stand firm on giving one year deals I know it'll never ever work but how many times have we've seen these ugly deals go sour as soon as the player gets the bag

I concur.

 

[diamonddelts]

CD Lamb was WAY late. He was threatening a holdout

At least he would finally hold on to something.

 

[Coogiguy03]

At least he would finally hold on to something.

Good point there my friend lol, butter butter!!

 

[StarLord]

Remember: when you brag to your friends about winning the Micah trade, you get to include the Ferg, Bland, and Bell extensions!

 

[LouBrown]

False. Steele was average and coming off a huge injury. Bland has had one good year and is injury prone. Neither would have gotten anywhere near as much anywhere else

No they would not.

Do you people even watch football?

Guy had 14 INTs in two years. That player gets signed every time

 

[Verdict]

The only thing big and little do worse than waiting too late on contracts is going early on average players thinking they are “getting a deal”. So I thought I would look at some recent extensions:

The Good Ones:

Lamb
Tyler Smith
Big Q

The Bad Ones:
Steele - his recent pay cut keeps this from being worse.

Bell- why? Dude has no position and is way too expensive for just ST.

The Ugly Ones:

Ferg - limited athleticism and a horrific blocker. Now he can’t catch and fumbles when he does. Ranked 1-32 for TE’s in the league I would put him in the 20-25 range.

Diggs - never the same after all of the injuries. Either the medical staff is incompetent and told the front office he would be fine or the front office didn’t care.

Bland- Ugh. He’s done like dinner. You can’t even salvage him by moving him inside cause Downs is 1000x better. Has to be one of the worst contracts in the league.

Common denominator seems to be the issue of extending guys AFTER they suffer serious injury. Would like to think big and little would learn but they won’t.

Yes. I said training another thread. Over paying marginal talent is the single biggest mistake that this team is making.