Re: NFL Chat 3 : Thu Jan 28, 2010 5:48 pm  

As it stands this is our free agent line-up although it will change depending on the CBA

Unrestricted FAs

95 Tully Banta-Cain OLB/DE
23 Leigh Bodden CB
53 Derrick Burgess OLB/DE
33 Kevin Faulk RB
97 Jarvis Green DE
6 Chris Hanson P
61 Stephen Neal G
55 Junior Seau ILB
84 Benjamin Watson TE
75 Vince Wilfork NT

Restricted FAs

3 Stephen Gostkowski K
70 Logan Mankins G
35 Chris Taylor RB
58 Pierre Woods OLB

Exclusive-Rights FAs

59 Gary Guyton ILB
38 Bret Lockett S

A lot of players there some will not recognise or of even heard of but there is some we cant afford to lose IMO,the ones which I have underlined are players I think we need to re-sign because they wont be replaced easily/ or have a lot of potential

Re: NFL Chat 3 : Thu Jan 28, 2010 9:20 pm  

LFCRhino wrote:

As it stands this is our free agent line-up although it will change depending on the CBA

Unrestricted FAs

95 Tully Banta-Cain OLB/DE
23 Leigh Bodden CB
53 Derrick Burgess OLB/DE
33 Kevin Faulk RB
97 Jarvis Green DE
6 Chris Hanson P
61 Stephen Neal G
55 Junior Seau ILB
84 Benjamin Watson TE
75 Vince Wilfork NT

Restricted FAs

3 Stephen Gostkowski K
70 Logan Mankins G
35 Chris Taylor RB
58 Pierre Woods OLB

Exclusive-Rights FAs

59 Gary Guyton ILB
38 Bret Lockett S

A lot of players there some will not recognise or of even heard of but there is some we cant afford to lose IMO,the ones which I have underlined are players I think we need to re-sign because they wont be replaced easily/ or have a lot of potential

I can see some of your FA's being added to the Chiefs to join the list of ex-pats There's talk on Chiefs messageboards of Pioli being interested in adding Watson and Wilfork.

Re: NFL Chat 3 : Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:07 pm  

DAR130 wrote:

I can see some of your FA's being added to the Chiefs to join the list of ex-pats There's talk on Chiefs messageboards of Pioli being interested in adding Watson and Wilfork.

Watson is a good player but we have never really used him as a proper recieving threat which is a shame because he could have been amazing.

Wilfork I would have thought would be wanted by 90% of teams in the league he is a monster and hes already come out and said he wants a long term deal or hes gone, I cant see us keeping him because we dont seem to give big contracts to Defensive players , although maybe we can find a way around it with there being no salary cap? possibly put all the money into the front of the contract?

I can see us putting the franchise tag on him TBH if thats possible without a salary cap? I dont understand how it will all work yet TBH

Re: NFL Chat 3 : Thu Jan 28, 2010 10:27 pm  

LFCRhino wrote:

Watson is a good player but we have never really used him as a proper recieving threat which is a shame because he could have been amazing.

Wilfork I would have thought would be wanted by 90% of teams in the league he is a monster and hes already come out and said he wants a long term deal or hes gone, I cant see us keeping him because we dont seem to give big contracts to Defensive players , although maybe we can find a way around it with there being no salary cap? possibly put all the money into the front of the contract?

I can see us putting the franchise tag on him TBH if thats possible without a salary cap? I dont understand how it will all work yet TBH

I doubt it is 90%.Not even 90% of defences are 34! I'd certainly not mind him as our NT but we have Raji who showed promise late on.

I don't think there is any way he leaves you though.

Re: NFL Chat 3 : Fri Jan 29, 2010 8:39 am  

ST_CONROY wrote:

I don't think there is any way he leaves you though.

I hope not but over the years we have let players in their prime go instead of giving them a deal that they wanted,

Lawyer Milloy, Ty Law and Asante Samuel are players that spring to mind although we replaced Milloy with Rodney Harrison and Ty Law with Samuel I dont see us being able to do the same with Wilfork. We did aquire a couple of DT`s last season in Rod Brace and Myron Pryor they did a job but Wilfork was noticeably missed in the games he missed through injury.

I think we may franchise him like I say if we cant strike a deal in time, hes said he wouldnt accept this but at least we will get a few draft picks for him.

If he does enter free agency I could see Tampa bay being interested and maybe the Vikings too if Fat Pat Williams does retire like he said he may.

Julius Peppers must be one of the best free agents around this year unless he changes his mind about not wanting to stay in Carolina, IIRC he was franchised so maybe they will do it again

Re: NFL Chat 3 : Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:11 am  

Looks to me like Merriman is leaving SD. Some late night Tweets certainly make it look that way.

Merriman on Twitter wrote:

What color uniform would I look best in?
2:03 AM Jan 28th from UberTwitter

Re: NFL Chat 3 : Fri Jan 29, 2010 10:51 am  

Black & Silver please.

I think the Raiders atm are only 1 or 2 guys off having a pretty damn good front 7.

Just a shame we've only 1 good DB, 1 decent DB and no offense.

Re: NFL Chat 3 : Fri Jan 29, 2010 7:36 pm  

NFL admits missed calls in the play-off games.

NFL admits missed calls in the play-off games.

Re: NFL Chat 3 : Fri Jan 29, 2010 7:43 pm  

RedTez wrote:

Looks to me like Merriman is leaving SD. Some late night Tweets certainly make it look that way.

Talk of him coming to join us at LOLB. We'd have an awesome LB lineup of Merriman, Hawk, Barnett, CM3.

He's a good player but i really dislike him.

Re: NFL Chat 3 : Fri Jan 29, 2010 8:00 pm  

ST_CONROY wrote: NFL admits that the referees have blown calls in the championship games along with other games in the play-offs. The OT drives in both the Vikes/Saints game and GB/Cards were embarassing. Can't see any mention in that article of any admission of errors being made with calls/non-calls other than the two QB hits.....unless there's another news story somewhere?

ST_CONROY wrote: NFL admits that the referees have blown calls in the championship games along with other games in the play-offs. The OT drives in both the Vikes/Saints game and GB/Cards were embarassing. Can't see any mention in that article of any admission of errors being made with calls/non-calls other than the two QB hits.....unless there's another news story somewhere?