Re: The All new NFL Chat thread including playoff talk : Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:38 pm  

Not overly upset about losing Garcon, he has terrible hands!

Re: The All new NFL Chat thread including playoff talk : Wed Mar 14, 2012 12:39 am  

Tar Heel wrote:

V.Jax close to signing with the Bucs apparently, so close that others are looking at alternatives.

Done deal.

5 Yrs/ $55m. $26m guaranteed.

Re: The All new NFL Chat thread including playoff talk : Wed Mar 14, 2012 6:41 am  

Gronk! wrote:

He would have been if the Colts hadn't decided to release Dallas Clark and let Reggie Wayne, Pierre Garcon and Jacob Tamme hit free agency.

That leaves the WRs on the roster as: Blair White, Anthony Gonzalez and Austin Collie....good luck with that Andrew Luck

Reggie Wayne has resigned for 3 years.

Re: The All new NFL Chat thread including playoff talk : Wed Mar 14, 2012 10:12 am  

Very happy that Reggie Wayne has resigned, he still offers far more than Garcon would have done!

Other free agents to visit with us are Redding from the Ravens, and Carlson from the Seahawks. The rebuilding phase begins!

Re: The All new NFL Chat thread including playoff talk : Wed Mar 14, 2012 12:11 pm  

The Brandon Marshall trade is beyond terrible from the Dolphins. They get rid of a 1000 yard a year reciever (even with poor QB's) and trade him for peanuts. Sure he's a bit of a loose cannon but he's worth more than that and if they've shopped him around i'm very suprised if that is the highest offer they could get.

Instanlty the Bears will be contesting with us for the division now.

Typically quiet free agency for us. I'd love us to try and get Mario Williams to pair up with the Claymaker but if the Bills are the leading option then clearly money is very important to him and I wouldn't like us to break the bank (I think we are relatively close to the cap).

Re: The All new NFL Chat thread including playoff talk : Wed Mar 14, 2012 8:13 pm  

Robert Meacham to the Chargers I believe ?

Re: The All new NFL Chat thread including playoff talk : Thu Mar 15, 2012 1:15 pm  

V.Jax, Nicks and Wright

It's a good offseason so far. Hopefully a good draft too and the next few years will start to look positive. I expect big things out of Josh this year with the O line upgrades and his receivers. V.Jax, Williams, Benn, Briscoe excite me and without going over the top I expect us to be more competitive in the division this year.

Re: The All new NFL Chat thread including playoff talk : Thu Mar 15, 2012 1:33 pm  

Harrigan wrote:

It's a good offseason so far. Hopefully a good draft too and the next few years will start to look positive. I expect big things out of Josh this year with the O line upgrades and his receivers. V.Jax, Williams, Benn, Briscoe excite me and without going over the top I expect us to be more competitive in the division this year.

Isn't that what you said this time last year?

Re: The All new NFL Chat thread including playoff talk : Thu Mar 15, 2012 2:04 pm  

Andy Gilder wrote:

Isn't that what you said this time last year?

Last year was all down hill from the get go. And I was more OTT last year

Our young guys have a full preseason this year, we have a good draft pick and I hope we get Claiborne. McCoy and Price will hopefully see a full season this year and Bowers and Clayborn, who were monsters last year, are a year older. Not saying we will do anything but get up and keep around the .500 mark will be a good season after last year.

Re: The All new NFL Chat thread including playoff talk : Thu Mar 15, 2012 3:11 pm  

I will welcome Manning if he joins Denver but I am very fearful of this and it does seem like an anti climax to be trading Tebow at this point. You just have to hope that the Broncos do serious due diligence about his fitness and whether he will be a diminished player or not.

That said I can see the logic in Manning coming. The AFC West is not a particularly strong division and the Broncos have got some handy young players on the roster, with Manning there I think we'd win the division and make the playoffs which is going to be a key priority for Manning who won't want to play out his career in an uncompetitive team.

It's ironic that a year or so ago everybody was saying Tebow needs a chance to show what he can do, he could be anything, and now we've had all the Tebowmania last season and he won games and took us to the playoffs, people seem to have made their minds up on Tebow, in the negative.