[News] Late For Work 2/18: Maybe Ozzie Newsome Wasn't Bluffing About Joe Flacco Contract

[PalmBayRaven]

  6 hours ago, budman said:

Actually, at the time we signed Monroe, he hadn't missed a start in his career while in Seattle. He was considered 1 of the top 5 LT's in the league so at the time signing him to the extension was a good move. Lot of games missed and injuries since but really nobody has a crystal ball. Maybe that shows how tough it is playing in the AFC North is. I don't know why all the missed games since.

Yeah, that's not really true (though I am a Monroe supporter).

1. Semantics, but he played for the Jags, not Seattle.

2. I don't think anybody ever thought he was top 5. The biggest reason I doubt this is the case is because the Jags drafted him 8th overall in 2009. And then, four years later, they decided it was time to use the #2 overall pick in 2013 on another LT. 

Now, one would obviously have to question the productivity of a player when a team who invested a top 10 pick in him looks to replace him with another high draft pick within four years of drafting him.

Now, generally speaking, I thought he was a pretty good LT, and at the time I thought it was a steal of a trade for us, but I never considered him a top 5 LT (nor was he or is he being paid like one). Maybe a back-end top 10 guy, but no higher than that.

Typically I'd argue that it could have been a case of a team not having the cap space to sign him to an extension due to his price tag, but the Jags have pretty much annually had tons of cap space, and that certainly wasn't a problem in 2013 when they drafted Joeckel.

Eugene Monroe is getting paid like a top 10 LT which he is NOT! Another bad deal for us. We traded for him and yes at the time it seem good for us up until Ozzie decided to pay him like a top 10 LT along with Dennis Pitta and Ladarius Webb. Those three contracts are killing us. I am not a big fan of Eugene Monroe. I think he gets beat too much and I haven't liked him for a couple years now and have posted about him. The FO has dropped the ball the last few years with poor draft picks and bad contracts. We need to get our balance sheet in order and that is gonna be painful any way you cut it.

[rmcjacket23]

15 hours ago, PalmBayRaven said:

Eugene Monroe is getting paid like a top 10 LT which he is NOT! Another bad deal for us. We traded for him and yes at the time it seem good for us up until Ozzie decided to pay him like a top 10 LT along with Dennis Pitta and Ladarius Webb. Those three contracts are killing us. I am not a big fan of Eugene Monroe. I think he gets beat too much and I haven't liked him for a couple years now and have posted about him. The FO has dropped the ball the last few years with poor draft picks and bad contracts. We need to get our balance sheet in order and that is gonna be painful any way you cut it.

Well, currently, he's not getting paid like a top 10 LT...he's getting paid as an average LT, which is what he is.

[balfan23]

"I don’t think they (The Ravens) really need to do anything. I think everything is fine as is." -- Linta on Joe's contract.

Yep, everything is just peachy the way it is - if you're client doesn't mind playing on a losing team. Flacco has pretty much said that's not what he wants, so hopefully we'll hear negotiations have begun and they get nailed down before FA period starts.