Packers 2014 free agents - who leaves/stays? (Flynn Re-Signs)

Appears to be pretty cap-friendly and probably represents market value. What's not to like?

 

In TT I trust.

Brilliant move by Uncle Ted in a couple ways.

 

1.  He keeps a good young ascending player with tallants that you can't coach into a player.

2.  He sends a message to every kid undrafted this spring that he is willing to give you a chance to make the big money if you perform.

3.  Just as it becomes legal to talk around the league he sets a new standard for every free agent to ask for more money driving the cost for teams higher.  With any luck we will see several deals like this in the next couple days.

4.  The guys that don't play at the level they were paid by Ted are now motivated to ask for even more from other teams.  B J Raji.  Ted supposedly made him an offer in season quite likely at a time that Ted had a hunch Raji would not sign.  Raji will try to push for more money than prior only I doubt it comes from ROTTT.  Now, maybe Zygi needs a fat disgruntled top ten non producer.  Similar to what happened with #85 Gerg what was his last name again.

5.  He gets whom ever he values motivated to cut a deal while there is still room on the credit card.

 

 

I wonder if TT brought up the "G" tatoo during the negotiations?  j/k

the low cap # this year matters, since Tramon has a high cap #. Next year, Tramon is a FA and will probably be gone. This gives us a high quality / high cost CB when that happens. This is a good deal for this year and is very forward looking. In 2015, we will need Haywood / Hyde / etc to cover the other corner and nickle.

Good corner.  Still developing for a player relatively new to the position.  Fast.  You can't coach speed.

 

 

You can't Coach Speed...

 

Just ask Romo.

I wonder if the early signing of Shields will force a contract restructure of Tramon.  He's got a $9.5 million cap figure and only $2 million if he's cut.  I don't think Tramon's base should be $7 million.

Good CB's cost a lot of money. It's a fact of life in the NFL. Realize it & embrace it. Seattle is lucky having a guy like Sherman (drafted in the 5th round) play CB at an elite level & at a substantially reduced salary. That's going to change for them.

 

Tramon started coming on at the end of last season. The Packers generally honor their contracts. It's possible a restructure might happen for Tramon but I doubt a pay cut

I just think the signing of SS gives TT a little more leverage concerning TW.  He played better as the season went on, but he's making quite a bit more this season than his value.  With plenty of cap room, they're in good position with or without a restructure.

       
Can Flaherty prevent the Packers from getting injured? 

And if you're going to talk about coaching speed, you should be giving a shout out to the ex-Packer. 

Ian Rappaport tweeted the Packers are showing interest in Lamarr Houston

I think there are a lot more with interest in Lamarr

 

 

 

Thus quoth the Raven: "Arthur Jones"

Unless TT plans to spend heavily in this crappy free agent market, I'm not impressed. Wish he had accelerated that signing bonus over this year.

Isn't he in the last year of his contract? Don't see how they can restructure without extending him. They can either cut his pay or release him.

Jordy and Cobb are going to get their money this year as well.  Whether it's other teams' UFAs or his own, Ted is not done spending.  

@adbrandt

Packers continuing trend of big spending (they were 2nd in NFL last year in cash spent), just not on free agents from other teams.

Something doesn't add up. I was under the impression Ted was stockpiling millions in unspent cap space to further his secret gay Nazi agenda.

I thought it was going toward the albino pigeon franchises.

He is the albino assassin.

I'm curious as to which players are in the last year of their contracts this year. Perhaps TT spent on Shields and may be going to spend on others, and may extend Cobb and Jordy, because there are some contracts going off the books next year on guys he's not going to bring back? Hawk? BJones? 

Looks as though Teds signing of Shield started some movement in the free agent corner back market. http://profootballtalk.nbcspor...goodbye-to-the-jets/

Corners are a hot position, Good thing Ted struck first.

I'd be happy if Jones and Hawk were gone this off season.  Neither one of them are worth a ****.  

Jordy makes sense to me. Hoping they sign him. A little early for Cobb.

RT @RavensInsider: Green Bay #Packers also interested in Arthur Jones, according to a source

 

Who know if it is true but it makes sense the Packers would look at pass rushers. I wonder what the Packers are planning to do with the safety position.

Maybe Thompson is just setting up a smoke screen by showing interest in a pass rusher and at the last minute he swoons in for Byrd or Ward

Maybe it's the agents releasing this "information" to drive up the price for their clients.

 

Lots of subterfuge this time of year.

Never saw that before Steven Jackson.

I'm sure that's it Boris. GB/TT don't comment on players or people not part of GBP so they won't confirm or deny interest. That makes it for easy for agents to leak "interest" in their player to make it seem like there's a market. Until that player is signed by GB I won't believe there is any significant interest. That said, I think it's likely GB does have interest in some DL because there is a need. So I'm sure the Packers are interested in Arthur Jones, Tyson Jackson, and Lamar Houston, but only TT knows what level that interest is and I seriously doubt he won't leak anything to the media.

What UFA made it all the to Green Bay but never made it past the airport because some other team summoned him right underneath our nose and signed him? Was that Steven Jackson or was that longer ago then last year?

Chris Canty?  I don't remember exactly

 

In retrospect it's really good they didn't sign S Jackson.  ROTTT

I totally agree...I dont think SJax had any intention of signing, he was just using the Packers for leverage....Thompson should've played his game and driven his price up through the roof just so Atlanta paid the hefty price for a washed up player

My brother in law hung out with Nelson last weekend.  Totally out of the blue random connection through a friend of a friend.  The story is Jordy is staying in WI the whole winter for the first time, started getting bored and asked a friend of his if he could set up some snowmobiling.  He's not been on a snowmobile before.  So my brother in law supplied the sleds.  He also took him ice fishing and he wanted to use the auger.  My brother in law said "How about you don't use the ice auger?  I don't need the state of WI hating me if something goes wrong".  That and the snow banks he was jumping on the snowmobile.   End of the day my nephew got to play pac man with him.  Totally cool guy.

 

Jordy's extension is getting the finishing touches as we speak.

While I'm glad that TT didn't sign Jackson in retrospect, I wouldn't call him a "washed up" player. He's a hard-working guy, and I'd bet he still has a couple more years of tread on his tires. Atlanta's OL was awful, and their passing attack was severely crippled by their injuries.

You are so smert GD.  If Ted has cash and actually wants someone would he lay bait in hope the hounds follow the rong track to eliminate competiton?  Who else is out there that he might like?  Is he really interested in one of those three or is he looking at some college kids and lessening the desire by plugging holes for another team?

 

Uncle Ted is special.  Except he blew it on Hawk and never admitted it.  That Davis TE would have looked so good we might still have TOG.

Learn something new every day. The NFL floor on spending is not 95% of the cap but 95%  measured over 4 years and is calculated using actual cash spent. Not money promised sometime in the future.  In real life that is on pay day you get $500.00 not 200.00 plus 300 that you may or may not get 3 years from now. Kind of like (well kind of anyway) how the IRS figures what you are paid in a year.

 http://overthecap.com/look-cas...-impact-free-agency/

As it turns out in real money Ted is not a miser but a free spender. In the last 2 years he given out more real money then anyone else. Of course he did spend big on Rodgers and Mathews but it should even out over time. But if I am a player what I care about the most is what I am getting now  not what they promise I will get sometime in the future.

 

Thompson hasn't swooned, ever.