Cotchery signed for vet minimum..

[DanRooney]

Originally Posted by finesward

They could of taken the vet min they used signing crotch (my new nickname for him ) and used that money to sign asante samuel... duhhh I hate it when they do that. Why didn't they go after alan faneca to shore up the offensive line??? If we would of had Plax and Faneca back this team would be SB bound.... stupid rooneys, don't know what they're doing

Cutting Gay+Battle+Cotchery's contract+3 million left in cap space could easily sign Asante to a 2-3 year deal.

[ebsteelers]

how much money would cutting those guys have given us?

doesnt samuels make near ten million a year?

[ebsteelers]

btw asking price for samuels is 2 2nd round picks.

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/m...cmpid=15585797

[Wallabeast17]

Originally Posted by ebsteelers

btw asking price for samuels is 2 2nd round picks.

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/m...cmpid=15585797

Not worth it IMO. To give up something like that would only happen if we lost Ike, as in no true starting corner. Thats way too much for a guy that would be the second corner(yes he would on this team). Samuel isn't going anywhere this year.

[theplatypus]

Originally Posted by ebsteelers

how much money would cutting those guys have given us?

doesnt samuels make near ten million a year?

I believe his cap number is just under 10 million this year. We would more than likely lose Timmons and or TroyP as well.

[ebsteelers]

thats what i kind of thought..

samuels is not worth it..


its not like he is gonna come here for peanuts

[Fire Arians]

Originally Posted by ebsteelers

btw asking price for samuels is 2 2nd round picks.

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/m...cmpid=15585797

good luck with that, i wouldnt even give up 2 2nd rounders for revis, unless one of the 2nd rounders we have to give up is limas sweed

[DanRooney]

Samuels would not ask for $10 million here. No doubt in my mind he would restructure to about $5 million similar to what Cotchery did being basically shipped out of Philly.

I'd be willing to deal a 2nd round pick for him. I mean our 2nd round picks outside of Woodley turn out to be guys like Worilds, trading down for Kraig Urbik, Sweed (actually can't blame them for choosing him, easily BPA), Colclough, etc.

[theplatypus]

Originally Posted by DanRooney

Samuels would not ask for $10 million here. No doubt in my mind he would restructure to about $5 million similar to what Cotchery did being basically shipped out of Philly.

I'd be willing to deal a 2nd round pick for him. I mean our 2nd round picks outside of Woodley turn out to be guys like Worilds, trading down for Kraig Urbik, Sweed (actually can't blame them for choosing him, easily BPA), Colclough, etc.

I'm impressed you've got a crystal ball and you read minds.

[finesward]

Originally Posted by DanRooney

Cutting Gay+Battle+Cotchery's contract+3 million left in cap space could easily sign Asante to a 2-3 year deal.

With the new kickoff rule I wouldn't mind losing battle, gay is a solid nickle back (not great but solid) and I'm not sure the youngins would be ready this year, at least not the start of it. My problem with cutting those guys and going after samuel this year is potentially losing more valuable players to sign Timmons next year. Samuel and Timmons isn't worth losing that amount of players (and/or draft picks) IMO. Plus not having crotch would leave us with reggie kelley as the fill in if any of our WR's go down.

We all want a solid #2 but it just doesn't seem feasible to sign a big name without losing Timmons or Troy P next year. I'd rather take our chances with the guys we drafted and try to coach them up. Bmac is serviceable for now. Lets hope he can get healthy and stay that way so we don't see a repeat of last year. *not that last year was soooo bad ;)