Baltimore RAYvens

Aggressively shopping Arian Foster and Brian Cushing

Houston Texans:

ERFA Tenders

CB Charles James

RT Jeff Adams

(Offset by top 51)

RFA Tenders:

OLB John Simon 2nd Round (-2 Rule of 51)

 

Franchise Tag

OG Brandon Brooks (-13 Rule of 51)

 

Cuts:

TE Garret Graham (+3)

ILB Akeem Dent (+2.5)

ILB Reshard Cliett (+.5)

DT Devon Still (+.5)

 

Cap Change -8.5 Stars

Houston Texans

2016 Forum Mock Salary Cap: 154 stars allowed 

Top 51 contracts: $126,067,628

Dead money: $394,580
Rollover: $1,637,055
Total Starting cap: $155,637,055 = 155.5 stars

Remaining Stars: 29.5 stars

From here: http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/houston-texans/cap/

NFL Draft: 5 stars Allocated (2.5 Stars due to rule of 51)

Round 1, Pick 31: Paxton Lynch, QB: Memphis State

Round 3, Pick 2: Vonn Bell, S: Ohio State

Round 3, Pick 3: Pharaoh Cooper, WR: South Carolina
Round 3, Pick 22: Cyrus Jones, CB: Alabama
Round 5, Pick 4:
Round 5, Pick 25:

Undrafted Free Agents:

Listed here

Transition Tag:

Brandon Brooks (11.5 Stars)

Restricted Free Agent Re-signings:

John Simon (2nd Round)

Exclusive Rights Free Agent Re-signings:

Charles James

Jeff Adams

Free Agents:

P Marquette King (1 Star)

WR Calvin Johnson (3.5 Stars)

DE DaQuan Bowers (0.5 Stars[Rule of 51])

LB Emmanuel Lamur (0.5 Stars[Rule of 51)

LB Perry Riley (0.5 Stars[Rule of 51])

C Khaled Holmes (0.5 Stars [Rule of 51])

OLB Quinton Coples (1.5 Stars [Rule of 51])

Cuts:

TE Garret Graham (3 Star Savings)

ILB Akeem Dent (2.5 Star Savings)

OLB Reshared Cliett(0.5 Star Savings)

DT Devon Still (0.5 Star Savings)

LT David Quessenberry (0.5 Star Savings)

WR BJ Daniels (0.5 Star Savings)

CB Robert Nelson (0.5 Star Savings)

C Dalton Freeman (0.5 Star Savings)

DE Gerald Rivers (No Savings rule 51)

G Karim Barton (No Savings rule 51)

RB Kenny Hilliard (No Savings rule 51)

WR Josh Lenz (No Savings rule 51)

DT Dan Pettinato (No Savings rule 51)

TE Eric Tomlinson (No Savings rule 51)

OLB Tony Washington (No Savings rule 51)

Retirements:

WR Calvin Johnson (1.5 Star savings)

Trades:

Eagles give:
QB Sam Bradford (+19.5 stars Eagles, -19.5 stars Texans)
Round 5, Pick 22
Texans give:
QB Brian Hoyer (+4.5 stars Texans, -4.5 stars Eagles)
Round 2, Pick 21
Totals: -15 star space for Texans, +15 star space for Eagles 

Dolphins give:
WR Greg Jennings (+4 stars Dolphins, -4 stars Texans)
Texans give:
S Andre Hal (+0.5 stars Texans, -0.5 stars Texans)
Totals: -3.5 star space for Texans, +3.5 star space for Dolphins

Eagles give:
DE Taylor Hart (+0.5 stars Eagles, -0.5 stars Texans)
NT Beau Allen (+0.5 stars Eagles, -0.5 stars Texans)
Texans give:
Round 6, Pick 20
Totals: -1 star space for Texans, +1 star space for Eagles

Dolphins give:
CB Jamar Taylor (+1 stars Dolphins, -1 stars Texans)
Round 3, Pick 3
Texans give:
CB Kareem Jackson (+6 stars Texans[speical cap move], -6 stars Eagles)
Round 4, Pick 21
Totals: +5 star space for Texans, -5 star space for Dolphins

Bills Give:
S Baccari Rambo (-1.5 stars Bills, +1.5 stars Texans)
Round 6, Pick 19
Texans give:
Round 5, Pick 20
Totals: -1.5 star space for Texans, +1.5 star space for Bills 

Chargers give:
Round 6, Pick 4
Round 7, Pick 25
Texans give:
WR Cecil Shorts (+2.5 stars Texans, -3 stars Chargers)
Round 6, Pick 19
Totals: +2.5 star space for Texans, -3 star space for Chargers 

Raiders give:
DJ Hayden (-0.5 Stars Texans, -1 Star Raiders)
Round 5, Pick 4
Texans give:
WR Jalen Strong (+0.5 stars Texans, -0.5 stars Raiders)
Round 6, Pick 4
Totals: +0 star space for Texans, +0.5 star space for Raiders 

Eagles give:
K Caleb Sturgis (+0.5 stars Eagles, -0.5 stars Texans)
Texans give:
Round 7, Pick 25
Totals: -0.5 star space for Texans, +0.5 star space for Eagles 

Remaining Cap Space: 3 Stars  (As of 3-21)

All players not named JJ Watt are available

4 minutes ago, arnie_uk said:

I was more bouncing of what grim said about less gifs this year. I also think there needs to be less off topic conversation. The last thread was something like 300 pages long, wig probably a 3rd of it posts that had no relevance to the game.

 

I know it's a downtime now but, after grim mentioning the gifs I thought I'd mention that as well.

Also with the threads having more posts on them per page it's tedious to have to wait for the longer load time and have to scroll all the way through to get to the new post

Getting that 1 and both 2s seems a bit unrealistic, even with Kaep wanting out making San Fran almost sure fire to grab a QB. But I'm all for it

Must have missed it. What got negged?

 

Detroit would have been the pick for me if the he had taken the Texans. 

Rams were also one of my top teams. They just have so much young talent thanks to the redskins

Houston Texans

Or just make the pick now and take my top team

@KDUBB44 you're up now

He's gonna wait until 12:30 to make his pick

2 hours ago, KDUBB44 said:

gotcha my bad

12 hour skip right? I hope you're up at 1 when we skip @arnie_uk

9 minutes ago, KDUBB44 said:

so who are we on then? Why did baltimorerayvens pick if we are still on arnie?

BaltimoreFLACCO passed his choices off to me since he was going to be stepping away and didn't want to hold us up. Class act

 

@arnie_uk is on the clock

BaltimoreFLACCO selects the Cincinnati Bengals

 

2 minutes ago, ravensdan said:

The jags are the best pick so far IMO. They don't need very much to contend IMO. If anything their cap space is temptation to do too much. 

By far my #1 team

15 hours ago, JoeyFlex5 said:

Someone thinks quite low of Stanley... 

 

It appears he falls out of the top 20 here. That's a first

FWIW I think Stanley goes top 5

16 hours ago, JoeyFlex5 said:

so where does ronnie stanley go in this scenario? 

 

Maybe we pick him up after the draft?

Add me to the list if there's an open spot

Joey Bosa won't be the first defensive player selected. Or the second, or the third.

7 hours ago, GrimCoconut said:

It's certainly a valid argument. There's that guy last year, I think Nate Bell was his name or something? He was a college QB who switched to CB or TE. I seem to recall two college QB switching to TE and CB, although I can't recall who. 

It certainly doesn't always work, but if we're talking taking him in the fourth round then it may very well be worth it, depending.

Blake Bell made the switch to TE. Marshall went to CB

2 hours ago, PurpleCity5 said:

I was very weary about Spence. You can get a guy who will be a perennial pro-bowler, or someone who can't get their life together. He can make a lot of GMs regret passing on him. 

With you grabbing him at 6 I'm guessing you've come around and think he can be the first statement? He seems very remorseful for what happened and seems to have eliminated that part of his life. Sounds like he dumped that whole circle of friends and everything

The more I listen to Noah Spence the more he jumps up on my board. I'm anxious to hear how teams view him after interviewing him at the combine, if he grades out well with them I'm down with taking him high.

I love Corey Coleman has a prospect and outside of Bosa he's the guy I want most in a Ravens uniform.

I'm also in agreement with you that we double up on CB and possibly back to back

He can do a lot of things for us. We need athleticism as far as linebackers go and having a good coverage linebacker can boost a defense significantly, if we move back for him I would be more than fine with it. Mosley/Jack can be like Willis/Bowman.

 

I agree with that. We'd have the best tandem in the league until we have to resign one of them. I only see him as a move back candidate though

The thing with Jack is he's a luxury pick for us, and picking that high has to be for a position of extreme value. I don't think that picking a second MLB with the 6th overall pick is good value

What I'm trying to say is that the depth behind SSS was not that good before the season started. We counted on an unproven rookie, Aiken (who was a pleasant surprise), Michael "Four Games a Season" Campanaro, Marlon "LOL" Brown and Darren Waller at the start of training camp. I hope the front office learned their lesson on counting on unproven, oft-injured, inexperienced and inconsistent WR's. We need more talent and more playmakers in that area. 

 

I think I'm on topic in answering your question. If not, excuse the rant lol. 

 

I think with Camp having two seasons of NFL training he should be over the injury problem and become a beast in the slot and giving SSS fresh legs and a break. But again that's a statement full of hope and you can't have a WR corps full of hope