McCarthy 'fed up' w/ Packers FA approach

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(02-01-2016, 01:24 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: I think some overestimate how much Pacman will get on the open market. His past will always make some teams cross him off their lists. His incidents with Amari Cooper and Joey Porter will surely be looked at. His age is another check against him. I'd like to have him back, but not at 3/21. That's too long of a commitment for a CB who will be 33 this September. We saw with Nate Clements how quickly a CB can fall off from one year to the next.

Nate Clements was 32 when the Bengals gave him 2yr/$10.5m in 2011, and the cap was roughly $120m that year. It's expected to be roughly $154m in 2016. So cap %-wise, that would be the same as a 2yr/$13.475m deal today. He was 7 years removed from his last Pro Bowl, and had never been an All-Pro.

So I honestly don't think I am overestimating Adam Jones on this. The cap has escalated so quickly (~$34m in 4 years) that it needs to be taken into account. Also, while he is a year older, he also is coming off the two best football years of his career, both as a returner and a cornerback with an All-Pro and a Pro Bowl under his belt.