03-03-2016, 11:41 PM
(03-03-2016, 10:02 PM)JungleRock85 Wrote: Every year Hobson gets his orders from the front office to temper expectations for free agency and remind everyone the team refuses to believe they can sign impact free agents and that the rest of the league envies our "model". This year he is at it again. His article states after draft picks and injury insurance and blah blah blah that the team will have 15 million to spend this year for free agency...what a joke!!!!
Not to boast or anything like that, but I told ya so.
(02-29-2016, 04:07 PM)BengalChris Wrote: Mike Brown uses different math. We'll have a rookie pool, injury pool and a roll-over to next year pool. You can expect an article from Hobson any day now saying how we really only have 19M to spend.
Granted, I was off the mark a little at $19M. I'm a bit shocked that they whittled it all the way down to $15M. The article was expected and the reasons given are the same as last year's article. We've been told rollover amounts were needed to keep our own players when they hit free agency in the future. Well, now is the future and it's time to use that rollover money, but, of course we won't use it because next year is the future. And when next year arrives, 2017 will be the future.
Say goodbye to Adam Jones, Marvin Jones and George Iloka, while Sanu (who we will overpay in desperation) becomes the defacto #2 WR. I give us a 50/50 shot at retaining Nelson after Iloka hits the road. The more defection we have the harder it will be to resign the others.
The team is playing the compensation pick game. Look for them to try and get 3 or 4 compensatory picks in the 2017 draft.
I see people posting about us signing Alex Mack and other free agents. Don't fool yourself. We'll maybe sign a guy or two from the bargain bin, maybe. We'll promote guys from the practice squad as injury replacements. Besides, a guy home watching games instead of being on the field isn't going to take $5M to sign.
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