02-08-2023, 05:11 PM
I think there's a realistic chance that, by the end of this free agency period, we only sign a single internal free agent, Vonn Bell.
Germaine Pratt is great, but there are two positions in the NFL that you really should avoid investing huge money in; Off Ball LB and RB.
The reasoning for this is relatively simple. How successful your RBs and LBs are has a LOT to do with how good your Oline and Dline are, respectively. You could spend money on a premium RB or a premium LB but if that takes money away from your Oline or Dline, odds are you'll come out worse for it than if you had taken the opposite approach.
That's not to say you should never sign Off Ball LBs or RBs. It's just, if you do, they better be Fred Warner (3 down back that actually changes how you are able to run your defense). Side note: It'll be interesting to see if Roquan Smith turns out to be that level of player for the Ravens.
Pratt was a really good player for us and improved our defense with his play, but the money he's looking to pull down likely shouldn't be from us.
Speaking of RB, I think Perine is a fine replacement level RB. If he is willing to sign for 2 million per year or so, but if he's going for starter money, I don't think we sign him. As a matter of fact, the above about LB/RB is kind of why I want us to just clean house at RB and draft a new player in the 2nd or 3rd round. If we cut Mixon, we can keep Perine, but I don't think both players should remain on this team, just from a cost efficiency standpoint.
Bates is gone, we know that.
Hurst played really well, but his PFF projection is insane (3 years, 28.5M, 9.5M AAV). Last year, I would have laughed at this price tag as I would have thought it impossible, but then CJ Uzomah got 24M over 3 years. Now I'll believe anything. NFL Free agency has gone off the rails.
If he wants to sign here for ~5M to 6M AAV, I'd do it, but ~10M is way too much for a good but not great TE.
And finally Apple, I bet we could probably sign him for another 1 year 3 to 4M contract and, if so, that would be a really good deal relative to how he's played but...God I wish he would just stop tweeting. I think the reason we keep getting him for such a discount is because 31 other teams ***** hate his guts because he won't shut the hell up. He and Aftab kind of took us, a lovable underdog team about to take down Goliath for the second straight year, and turned us into a strangely hate-able and "cocky" team....which kinda sucks.
But whatever, he'd be a good first CB off the bench behind CTB and Awuzie and will likely be cheap since he's so hated across the league, so maybe we should re-sign him haha.
Germaine Pratt is great, but there are two positions in the NFL that you really should avoid investing huge money in; Off Ball LB and RB.
The reasoning for this is relatively simple. How successful your RBs and LBs are has a LOT to do with how good your Oline and Dline are, respectively. You could spend money on a premium RB or a premium LB but if that takes money away from your Oline or Dline, odds are you'll come out worse for it than if you had taken the opposite approach.
That's not to say you should never sign Off Ball LBs or RBs. It's just, if you do, they better be Fred Warner (3 down back that actually changes how you are able to run your defense). Side note: It'll be interesting to see if Roquan Smith turns out to be that level of player for the Ravens.
Pratt was a really good player for us and improved our defense with his play, but the money he's looking to pull down likely shouldn't be from us.
Speaking of RB, I think Perine is a fine replacement level RB. If he is willing to sign for 2 million per year or so, but if he's going for starter money, I don't think we sign him. As a matter of fact, the above about LB/RB is kind of why I want us to just clean house at RB and draft a new player in the 2nd or 3rd round. If we cut Mixon, we can keep Perine, but I don't think both players should remain on this team, just from a cost efficiency standpoint.
Bates is gone, we know that.
Hurst played really well, but his PFF projection is insane (3 years, 28.5M, 9.5M AAV). Last year, I would have laughed at this price tag as I would have thought it impossible, but then CJ Uzomah got 24M over 3 years. Now I'll believe anything. NFL Free agency has gone off the rails.
If he wants to sign here for ~5M to 6M AAV, I'd do it, but ~10M is way too much for a good but not great TE.
And finally Apple, I bet we could probably sign him for another 1 year 3 to 4M contract and, if so, that would be a really good deal relative to how he's played but...God I wish he would just stop tweeting. I think the reason we keep getting him for such a discount is because 31 other teams ***** hate his guts because he won't shut the hell up. He and Aftab kind of took us, a lovable underdog team about to take down Goliath for the second straight year, and turned us into a strangely hate-able and "cocky" team....which kinda sucks.
But whatever, he'd be a good first CB off the bench behind CTB and Awuzie and will likely be cheap since he's so hated across the league, so maybe we should re-sign him haha.
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