Skins sign fletcher

[Da Hammer]

gotta give credit to the Skins... Fletcher is a great signing. oh well at least the signed Smoot as well :laugh2:

 

[MossBurner]

Then they will just restructure someone else's contract . . . . and it goes on and on and on.

Releasing John Hall (definitite) and Renaldo Wynn (probable) saves another 4 million this season. The restructure/extensions of Sellers and Thomas this morning added another 4 million. No one outside of the FO knows their current cap #, but my guess is that they still have about 7 million to play with....and counting.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Releasing John Hall (definitite) and Renaldo Wynn (probable) saves another 4 million this season. The restructure/extensions of Sellers and Thomas this morning added another 4 million. No one outside of the FO knows their current cap #, but my guess is that they still have about 7 million to play with....and counting.

wow, that would put you at about, 20th most cap room :laugh2:

 

[Mansta54]

gotta give credit to the Skins... Fletcher is a great signing. oh well at least the signed Smoot as well :laugh2:

Why is this so great? He's a 33yr. old MLB on a team with a absolutely horrible Dline. Their Dline is old, slow, and always hurt. What good is a 33yr. old Fletcher gonna do? They were 5-11 with one of the WORST D's in the league...

 

[TNCowboy]

Why is this so great? He's a 33yr. old MLB on a team with a absolutely horrible Dline. Their Dline is old, slow, and always hurt. What good is a 33yr. old Fletcher gonna do? They were 5-11 with one of the WORST D's in the league...

He'll be 32. And he's a good football player. Thing is, he's at the age where guys start to decline. It's not a huge contract, but IMO it's not a good signing in that one of the league's oldest teams just got a little older.

 

[Mansta54]

He'll be 32. And he's a good football player. Thing is, he's at the age where guys start to decline. It's not a huge contract, but IMO it's not a good signing in that one of the league's oldest teams just got a little older.

32 or 33yrs, not much difference.. If he were going to a good defense that just needed a few holes filled, then ok, but their D is awful and old.... He won't help them at all.. I just don't see it!!!!

 

[silverbear]

it said Fletcher will receive 12.5 mil of his contract w/in the 1st 2 years

Right-- he's already received the 10.5 mil signing bonus...

Unless it's some kind of split bonus, that could complicate the calculations... I'd have to see exactly how the deal was structured to tell you what the cap hit would be each year...

 

[SkinsandTerps]

Note to self : Summer not so good with understanding cap room.

By the time all is said and done there will be even more room.

 

[5mics]

POSTED 8:42 p.m. EST, March 2, 2007
FLETCHER IS A 'SKIN
A league source tells us that linebacker London Fletcher has agreed to terms with the Washington Commanders.
Per the source, it's a five-year, $25 million deal. It pays a $10.5 million signing bonus and pays out $12.5 million over the first two years.
Washington was Fletcher's first and only visit. Other teams that were interested in the nine-year veteran were the Bills, Lions, and Patriots.​

Great news....for us! Also signed Smoot, right? Even better news! Keep eating up your cap space Danny Boy! Davis headed to you, any cap space left Danny?

 

[MossBurner]

32 or 33yrs, not much difference.. If he were going to a good defense that just needed a few holes filled, then ok, but their D is awful and old.... He won't help them at all.. I just don't see it!!!!

This might be one of the YOUNGEST defenses in the league next year! Injuries made them old last season.

2007 Projected Skins D
E Carter 28
T Golston 24
T Griffin 31
E 1st Round Pick 22

W McIntosh 24
M Fletcher 32
S Washington 29

CB Rogers 26
CB Smoot 28
FS Taylor 24
SS Fox 28 / Arch 29 / Prioleau 30

Avg age - 26.9 years

 

[Avery]

This might be one of the YOUNGEST defenses in the league next year! Injuries made them old last season.

2007 Projected Skins D
E Carter 28
T Golston 24
T Griffin 31
E 1st Round Pick 22

W McIntosh 24
M Fletcher 32
S Washington 29

CB Rogers 26
CB Smoot 28
FS Taylor 24
SS Fox 28 / Arch 29 / Prioleau 30

Avg age - 26.9 years

Did you guys steal our pick? :

 

[Avery]

Double post.

 

[the kid 05]

the Skins are beating us to the punch!

its fine, he'll get shot in the thigh by Taylor

 

[fanfromvirginia]

if I'm doing the math correctly, half of the money he's going to see his 1st 2 years would average to about 6.3 mil that he's owed in '07, that's a good chunk of their available cap space, I don't see them doing much else

That 12.5 million in the first 2 years includes all of the bonus, as in he will receive the bonus plus his first two years. And of course that 10.5 gets prorated over 5 years. So that number is not about the cap but rather Fletcher's bank account.

His cap hit is going to average about 3.1 million per year for the first two years. That's my reading, anyway.

 

[Gibbs II]

Did you guys steal our pick? :

He meant 22 as in age. Not sure if you knew that but yea.

And if we get okoye, that means the 1st rd pick will be 19!!!! Even younger!!

A 19 year old in the nfl... that just doesnt seem right