burnbigben

It's too late to learn to cover once you are in the NFL. He is what he is at this point and that is not a man cover guy.

I don't like the signing considering we have used 3rd and 2nd round picks in the last 2 years on guys who are better than him IMO. At 4+ mil a year and 35 years old this makes no sense to me.

That seems to be the truth about almost every tackle taken early in the last few years. I wouldn't be very happy if we picked a tackle with our 1st pick.

The spent a season or so in cap hell while they were dumping all their bad contracts but now it seems to have paid off a few few great young pieces in place.

I belive it was, but because it was right after the Rice fiasco the team seemed to be putting the foot down to prevent more backlash.

To me that just seemed like a best on the board pick at the time. An asset they could groom for a couple years and flip for a higher pick like they did with Cassel. I'm not sure it's even close to the same scenario this time around.

I did wake up strangely happy for a Monday lol

That's just my guess based on the structure and re-structure of his contract. If he truly did want to play into his 40's I don't think the pats spend a 2nd rounder on Garropollo.

http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/new-england-patriots/tom-brady/ Tom Brady will retire after 2017 season and will be completely off the Patriots books. He signed a 3 year/27M extension with 18M bonus and 8M salary in his pocket 1st year, then 9M salary in 2016 and 10M salary in 2017. Well below what people consider "fair market value" http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/pittsburgh-steelers/ben-roethlisberger/ This on the other hand, seems like he has to stay on their roster through 2017 which may be a tall task for a guy that hangs onto the ball and takes as many stupid sacks as he does. His cap hits carry on through 2019 season unless accelerated earlier via trade/cut/retirement. I'm expecting us to sign Joe to a Roethlisberger type deal, Joe Linta would laugh Oz out of the room if he even mentioned a Brady type deal...

not bad at all for a raw 4th round pick.

As long as Shaq Lawson doesn't flop like the last bigtime DE from Clemson. Bowers had great stats in his senior year as well and turned out to be a bum. Tough to say but I think a top corner or pass rusher is the best way to go 1st round unless Treadwell is too tough to pass on.

And now here you are bringing it up LOL! Still one of the biggest worst FO moves no matter how you slice it. I know Mr Flacco would agree.

Oh how we seem to have already forgotten the Seattle game, which was the worst game of the season by our defense. I'm not opposed to bringing this guy back to compete for a spot but we should aspire to have a better option for a starting corner.

Don't get me wrong here because I love the way Osemele plays but right now the biggest problem with Monroe is his durability. Before being traded here he missed something like 2 games in 4 years. Osemele has already missed most of a season due to back surgery and seems to miss games for recurring knee problems as well. I don't think we can afford a deal he will command either considering we have already been feeling the cap pinch in recent years.

Let's just avoid the whole Shaub convo altogether lol