Is Whit Worth $20 Million?

[kevin]

Who in the heck blocks for Dalton if we lose Whitworth and Zeitler ?....Look for Dalton to get injured and then McCarron to get injured, which is worse than the 4 win or less season we will have. Why does Mike Brown and Family even have Whitworth, Kirkpatrick, Zeitler, LaFell, Peko, Burkhead still unsigned going into free agency. Do you realize that the 2012 draft is pretty much a bust if we lose first round picks Kirkpatrick and Zeitler along with Still and Sanu picked next and Marvin Jones. The extra pick for Carson Palmer goes down the drain. We get to keep IIoka and maybe Brandon Thompson out of the 2012 draft..I do not understand the Brown Family at all. Yes, when players reach the free agency mark, they want money, This why you do not have all these top players unsigned at the free agency mark. You have to admit some of these names should have been signed way before now. Of course there is the Franchise Tag and the going rate of pay to tag a O Lineman or CB is around 14 million for one year. Of course you only get the one Franchise Tag. I just fail to understand The Brown Family on anything they do. Not just Mike but the entire Family. I would assume that giving the long expensive contract to The Pacman and drafting Dennard and Jackson first round Mike and Family have no intention of also paying Kirkpatrick. They drafted those top pick O Linemen to probably replace Smith and Whitworth, but can we really count on those two in 2017, and one has to play right tackle. Painted into a corner, I think I would franchise tag Whitworth because there are no top Left Tackles in this draft but there are guards. In doing this as a GM, I would be very upset the Brown Family forced a choice between these two. Hopefully in tagging Whit and drafting a top guard Dalton won't have his head taken off in 2017. Looking at draft prospect lists, unless we trade down, looking at a guard not in round one, bur round two because maybe all but one could still be there. So for instance we take a LB in one to fill that need, then we take the guard in two. WE bring back the O Line minus Zeitler with one of the top guards in the draft as a rookie to try to keep Dalton from getting killed. Zeitler and Kirkpartrick leave and Dennard and Jackson better pan out at CB. In the end Whit cost about 14 mil on the franchise tag, not 20. Mike Brown feels he just saved 6 million and he gets a woodie