2015 Offseason/Regular Season Cuts, Trades, Free Agent Moves/Firings

I'll go out on a limb here and say that the Vikings sign Kevin Dorsey before the day ends. 

 

Now, if we would cut Hawk and B. Jones and they would sign with the Vikings, we would be softening up the middle of that defense.  Should do it before FA starts. 

       
       
Gerg's not even on that list

 The article was dated 11/22/13.

http://profootballtalk.nbcspor...&partner=ya5nbcs

 

, Fox said the plan was to line veteran pass-rusher Jared Allen up at outside linebacker for now.

“Well again I mean I haven’t seen that so it’d be hard for me to evaluate until we get him out there but he’s a good football player, he’s got good instincts,” Fox said. “So my experience has been that works in a two-point or a three-point stance.”

Allen has made it clear in the past, however, how he sees himself.

“I want to end my career as a defensive end,” he said in 2011, via Judd Zulgad of 1500ESPN.com, when the Vikings were considering switching to a 3-4. “And I’m not playing a 2-gap, let me just throw that out the window now.

“[Going to a 3-4] is something that will be addressed if and when it happens. I know that we have enough mutual respect for each other that they would at least give me a head’s up and give me an option of what I would want to do. I don’t see that in the future.”

       
       
And they picked Gerg up in the offseason of 2013 so therefore it was Gergs first season with them at that time

Jared Alen may be white, but he is a really good athlete. He can definitely play OLB if age hasn't caught up to him.

Calling bull**** on that comment.  Pretty sure he'd get his ass whipped playing in space.

The PFT article on Jared Allen's potential aversion to a new 3-4 scheme is interesting if for no other reason he was nonexistent in his preferred 4-3 scheme last year and that fact was completely glossed over. 

 

Otherwise, another PFT winning article. 

Yep. Immediately thought about Aaron Kampman's successful transition to OLB.

Aaron Kampmanesque

cuquiya.,...you were 13 seconds ahead of me

Kampman would look like Sam Shields compared to washed-up Alen trying to cover RBs and TEs in space.  

I'm convinced.  They should do that.

Trade him back to the Vajeen Machine for 2 first rounders and truckload of cash.

me too

Goalline must have started drinking early today

 

Jared could be a nickle-package interior rusher in a 3-4, but he's old and stiff when it comes to coverage

 

Fox is gonna blow that thing up. Brandon Marshall, Jay Cutler and Jared Allen are all available

Wasn't one of the reasons KC wanted to dump him because they were switching to the 3-4 and he refused to move to OLB?

Jared may have reached the point where he can't refuse a position change any longer.

Question is, does he realize that yet.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/v...-224158050--nfl.html

 

I think someone suggest this but it was not real clear to me. But anyway the Vikings have claimed Bostick.

We should probably start discussing this.

 

My drinking has nothing to do with it. It was noon in Ghana, dammit.

 

Lots of video of Jared dropping into zone coverage and either picking the ball off with some ridiculous catch (ask Arod about that) or knocking it down. The dude is/was a good athlete.

 

Case in point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lL7qoT9AoU

Rodney makes a good point here:

@PackerUpdate: Given choice between 31 [House] & 29 [Hayward] I'd choose 29 every time. And that's a choice Ted will have to think about. 29 will be a FA a year from now.

For TT, time is a flat circle as well.

Awesome video, looks like the poor kid gets tossed for playing football

 

Raji dropped into zones too - and got a pick-6 because the mensa QB wasn't expecting him to be there.

Its a slightly different story at OLB when the QB is targeting your ass in coverage.

Jared's is/was a good athlete...but with very poor taste in teams.

He talked to the Seahawks last year but they couldn't agree on compensation- he may end up there this year

Granted, none of the other kids look like drunk golfers, but the kid puts AJ Hawk to shame.

Pete Damilatis @PFF_Pete

Why Randall Cobb is no ordinary WR. Slot machine. RT @PFTonNBCSN: pic.twitter.com/28hpQfyJVN

 

 

Pay the man.

MM on Cobb and Packers' O, today:

“I love Randall,” coach Mike McCarthy said. “I want him back, we all want him back, he wants to get back. But you’ve got agents and it’s a negotiation. Let’s see what happens.”

Breaking in a wide receiver is a lot different than what the Packers do with Cobb, he added. Cobb is “unique” and gives the Packers, he said, “a lot of diversity."

“You look at the way we played the last four weeks there and in the playoffs,” McCarthy said, “he brought a whole different dimension that I like to use at certain points in the season and New England was one of the games we had targeted for that. He’s a unique player, he creates matchup problems, he’s an excellent punt returner. He’s a four-down player, that’s what you want.

“You got guys that can play on four downs, that’s what you’re looking. Smart player, great guy, he’s a Packer.”

...“We scored the most points in the league but our starting quarterback didn’t play five quarters,” McCarthy said. “I’ve never had an offense this good. We have a statistic breakdown, it’s a formula. … It’s the 16 principles of championship offense and defense, and we hit 13 of the 16 on offense and the three that we didn’t get I think we were one play or two plays off the other three, so if we could play at this level of offense from here on in, it will be the best offense pro football has seen.”

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/292771171.html

 

Also:

@RobDemovsky: From McCarthy's side session: "I thought we were the best team in football when our season ended. You have to prove it on the field obviously."

 

They could have at least used Ferguson's real first name, Turd!

 

Good. Use your aggressive feelings, boy. Let the hate flow through you. 

 

 

 

Seahawks Jeremy Lane, in addition to his gruesome open wrist fracture...

 

Also tears ACL.

 

Looks like a PUP candidate at best to start 2015

Interesting bit about targeting the NE game as one where he highlighted Cobb because of his matchup advantages.  Bilechick is a "matchup guru" and McCarthy beat him at his own game.

Even if it is Cobb's agent, instead of Cobb, gumming things up my intuition on the situation seems to have been correct, Cobb's camp isn't very anxious to sign, at least not without extracting more money from the Packers.  That is why I fear Cobb is leaving, I don't see Ted playing that game.  I see Ted more of the make a fair but final offer kind of guy.

Folks see what they want to see.  

Seems like pretty typical negotiations to me and not really that much different from Sam Shields last year. He's the best slot receiver in the game and the number floated isn't out of line given what he brings to the table. The deal will get done.

I'd like to get these particular folks into a high-stakes game of poker.

They seem to be... not very good at it 

I love intuition based on opinion that is confirmed by more opinion.  That's where I put my money.

Whatever. It is clear from that statement that Cobb is a Viking already.

So if Cobb goes elsewhere, he looks like the "bad guy", more pomp and full in the free agency game. It comes down to numbers, Cobb doesn't owe Green Bay anything, he's looking at his best opportunity. If that's in Green Bay, he'll take it.  

...unless he signs with the Vikings. Only bad guys sign with the Vikings. You of all people should know that, Herschel.

I don't think he'd be a bad guy at all.  I just think there's a reason that his deal hasn't already been extended and I think it is because he or his agent are looking for more money than Ted has so far offered.  Given Ted's history I think chances are decent Cobb ends up somewhere else.

Lots of money to play with.

@TomSilverstein: NFLPA projecting salary cap at $143 million.

 

@TomSilverstein: With a $143 million cap, #Packers would be about $25 million under the cap. NFLPA exec DeMaurice Smith just said cap would be $143M.