Father time is undefeated. Don't care how many peptides you take, how hard you work, how much rest and recover you do, how much anti-inflammatory diet you consume.
Best of luck to him...I think the Packers chose wisely.
I'm sure there are lots of teams that have some degree of interest, but I think it has to depend on what Daktari will accept for a salary.
HIs days of $20M+/year are over, so will he play for 10% of that?
I still think there is a possibility he would reunite with Rodgers in NY.
I also think he likely would want to play for a "contender" at this point in his career, so that eliminates at least half of the teams in the league.
The teams that drafted OTs in the 1st or 2nd round eliminates a few more teams.
And I haven't mentioned the grass vs turf factor yet.
Trying to line up limited choices, salary, and opportunity might be difficult to do.
What do you all think about him going to a team like the Raiders, Chargers, Bills, Bengals? Maybe the Rams or Seahawks? Ditto the Falcons or Giants.
Just as long as it's not one of our division rivals...
Teams (other than perhaps the Raiders) that are already established, but need a little extra to get some playoff success. Or teams that have new HCs, new or still young QBs?
Its getting to be that time...when Bak has a choice to make
My guess = Chiefs
Contender, plays on grass, progressive coach, top QB and they have some other LT options in case things go south on Bak's return to play. Reid is more than willing to gamble on risky moves to achieve greatness
We should be hearing something soon as the Battle of Wounded Knee reaches its exciting next chapter.
More than likely Bakh isn't going to be making a choice, the choice is going to be made for him.
More likely it will come after the season starts so they don’t have to guarantee his contract,
@Goalline posted:More likely it will come after the season starts so they don’t have to guarantee his contract,
That's exactly how they handled it in years' past, especially for depth vets who still commanded a high salary. Now with void years, veteran benefits and other cap manipulations, teams don't sign as many guys after game 1.
You can go through the transactions from Sept of 2023 to see how few high priced vets were signed right after week 1
https://www.pro-football-refer.../09_transactions.htm
What teams do now is use the Veteran Benefit clause of the latest CBA which allows teams to sign a 10+ year vet like Bak, but he only counts as a 2 year vet for cap purposes. They are allowed a small signing bonus as well. NFLPA wanted this clause so vets didn't always lose out to cheaper young guys.
Then teams add per-game bonuses as a way for Bak to recoup some of the dollars he's worth and to offer protection to the team if things go sideways. Packers did this with Nick Perry's contract and several other vets where re-injury was a significant concern. Teams can push some of it into void years if they need to
The reason teams will take a chance on David is because there just aren't enough quality OTs to staff a 32 team league. Take a stroll through some of the dreck teams are rolling out there on Sundays. Marshall Newhouse played 10 years in the league. We're totally spoiled on the OL compared to most teams
https://www.ourlads.com/nfldep...rts/depthchartpos/OT
End of the day, the team MDs will make the call and they have the skills and experience to make such an assessment - as opposed to all the orthopedic specialists posting here at X4... 