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53 Man Roster Projection


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19 hours ago, Broncofan said:

Charles doesn’t have the same extra gear like he had at his peak.  He’s had 200+ touches in his KC/DEN since his 2nd ACL and had 1 20+ yd play and nothing higher.  Plus extra usage at his mileage likelihood of breaking down went way up.   Remember he needed all preseason to play one half.    The one thing he was still excellent at was pass pro.  But at 8-10 touches it was a pure waste.  

Booker literally offered the same pass catching skills at a fraction of the price and would have allowed us to spend the $ elsewhere.    While the position is disposable in nature splitting the work 3 ways was a terrible idea from the get go.   Splitting work between 2 backs is the ideal formula if you don’t have a true bellcow - it’s hard for rhythm to develop otherwise.  

If you don’t attach any importance to the name the film and stats would have said you don’t pay the guy more than the vet min.  That’s a key mistake made - paying for past performance.   RB is so disposable paying anything more than the vet min and bonuses for true performance rather than making the roster and games played is a huge mistake.  Signing JC was a mistake given his limitations.   Paying him 2M more in bonuses just to show up was an even bigger one.  

Good thing he hasn’t earned any of them, right? ;)

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1 hour ago, Zukhyubern said:

Good thing he hasn’t earned any of them, right? ;)

He got 450K for being on the Week 1 active roster, and then 78k+ per game that he was active - so he got 1.5M extra on top of the vet min (900K) and the initial signing workout bonus (100K) just for showing up.  I'll amend my 2M statement to 1.5M - but that's still a major waste for literally 0 performance.    JC didn't get an extra 1.25M more in actual performance based bonuses (that would have actually raised the contract to nearly 5M) on top of the 1.5M of roster bonuses "earned" but Elway still wasted a total of 2.6M on JC, and more than half was literally for being a warm roster body, when the initial commitment was only for 100K before the season began.  Elway basically ended up paying JC 2.5M because of him showing up for 1 half of preseason play. 

SMH.

http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/denver-broncos/jamaal-charles-4374/

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Until we start 2018 discussion figure this was newsworthy - the escalators pretty much should make a roster cut a no brainer for Garcia and Siemian.  The salary goes up but it’s not guaranteed.    To commit 2M when neither can be a starter is way too much.   

 

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