RSkinGM Posted May 5, 2023 Share Posted May 5, 2023 Per John Kiem . post June designation. This was a given. Sorry injuries set back a promising career. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeT14 Posted May 5, 2023 Share Posted May 5, 2023 Hell of a 6th rounder. If Stromberg can match it’d be a great pick again 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
e16bball Posted May 5, 2023 Share Posted May 5, 2023 To be expected, but still a sad development. He was quite a revelation for us, and it’s a shame that injuries derailed a very promising career. Perhaps he’ll get things back on track elsewhere — someone should absolutely take a look on a “prove it” deal. Looks to save us about $8.3M against this year’s cap (will cost us $4M in dead cap on next year’s cap, however). Should open things up for paying the rookies and perhaps a veteran LB or OT. Once Norwell gets canned, that will open up another $4.4M or so, which means we’ll be pretty set for this offseason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeT14 Posted May 5, 2023 Share Posted May 5, 2023 18 minutes ago, e16bball said: To be expected, but still a sad development. He was quite a revelation for us, and it’s a shame that injuries derailed a very promising career. Perhaps he’ll get things back on track elsewhere — someone should absolutely take a look on a “prove it” deal. Looks to save us about $8.3M against this year’s cap (will cost us $4M in dead cap on next year’s cap, however). Should open things up for paying the rookies and perhaps a veteran LB or OT. Once Norwell gets canned, that will open up another $4.4M or so, which means we’ll be pretty set for this offseason. Or for an extension 👀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slappy Mc Posted May 5, 2023 Share Posted May 5, 2023 4 minutes ago, MikeT14 said: Or for an extension 👀 Kam Curl definitely deserves that extension. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offbyone Posted May 6, 2023 Share Posted May 6, 2023 Expected. Really good player, but what can you do, the injuries were pretty severe and he can't sit on the sideline with that contract. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtle28 Posted May 10, 2023 Share Posted May 10, 2023 It sucks, but it was the right move. You can't pay a player $12 mil coming off two season-ending injuries. His and Larsen’s injuries the last two years really hurt our offensive line. When put top 2 centers were healthy the last 2 years one offense looked a lot better. I’m pulling for Ricky Stromburg to be the answer at center and for Gates or Larsen to be cut. I'd rather have the long-term answer settled in rather than a stopgap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtle28 Posted May 10, 2023 Share Posted May 10, 2023 (edited) On 5/5/2023 at 2:06 PM, e16bball said: Should open things up for paying the rookies and perhaps a veteran LB or OT. Once Norwell gets canned, that will open up another $4.4M or so, which means we’ll be pretty set for this offseason. I don't see any of this happening. Maybe I'm wrong, but I would think if we were going to cut any of our expensive $5 mil & over veterans that we would've done that already so we could sign younger FAs. There have been a few LBs available this entire off-season, River, JDR & the Marty’s chose Cody Barton to be the starter next to Jamin Davis while once again not even drafting a late-round LB. It's pretty clear that they're comfortable with Mayo being the backup Mike & short yardage LB when we go with a 4-3 and they’re banking on Milo Eifler and Khaleke Hudson or, Milo OR Hudson taking the next step in their development to be more than just special teams guys and be a reliable reserve LB behind or on the opposite side of Jamin on the outside should we go w/ 3 LBs with two of them being true outside guys. I don't know who they’d cut Lucas for to bring in as a 3rd OT & they just drafted Braden Daniels who has experience at OT & OG just like Cosmi & Saahdiq Charles. There’s a question IMO as to if Lucas even makes the team if Charles, Cosmi & Daniels play well this training camp & preseason. Edited May 10, 2023 by turtle28 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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