Thread: Free agents who will shape next season

Originally Posted by Papa Bear

He is expensive, but holy crap, the thought of him and Peppers on the same line. I would almost feel sorry for opposing QB's. Almost.

Good find PB. Great article.

For my money the only big dollar player I'm interested in is MWill. I think if we can get him to accept a deal similar to Pep's we'll have another bargain on our hands. It's true we might have the two highest paid DE's in the NFL but the interior of the Dline is actually pretty inexpensive. Okoye may end up being the highest paid OT if we re-sign him.

Getting MWill makes Pep even more effective than he already is. If we play MWill at RDE and move Pep over to LDE or even swap them back and forth there's no way teams can double and triple team both of them. Now combine that with the Melton came on in the second half of the year and along with Okoye was can rush and a more experienced Paea whose got an huge amount to explosiveness we've got an awesome line. Behind then we've got Izzy who won't be that expensive to re-sign to backup at LDE and Wootton if he can stay healthy to backup RDE and we'd have a Dline that would rival the Giants.

Angelo would give some excuse about not putting that much $$$ into one position and that's nonsense when the rest of your line is fairly cheap compared to what Pep and MWill might make and I think that's the way it needs to be looked at. Phil Emery has a golden opportunity to put his brand on this team and build a Super Bowl Champion very quickly if he spends the money he has the right way. George McCaskey has already said the bank account is there to spend so I think he truly wants another winner badly and the sooner the better. Ginny's not getting any younger.

I'm real lukewarm to the others. Brandon Carr would be nice but we don't need to spend Cover Corner $$$ on a guy to play in this defense. Re-sign Jennings and draft a young guy in the first three rounds. If we spend any FA money in FA maybe it should be for a Safety.

Nicks is a great player but he's be more expensive than Evans and that's a ton or money to pay an OG. If we want a player the size of Nicks all we have to do is draft Cordy Glenn and he'd cost a fraction of what Nicks will. He's younger and potentially just as good.

If Randy Moss wants to come in on a vet minimum and some incentives and try to make the team I wouldn't object to it but if he's talking in the multi millions for a base he and his 36 year old ass can forget it. The only reason I'd consider it is we already popped our cherry as far as useless FA's with RWill so we may as well give Moss his shot. At least he'd be a step up.

Originally Posted by Papa Bear

Maybe Emery stuffed his pockets before he left K.C.

If only that were true. KC has more cap space than anyone but they won't use it all because they don't have to and Clark Hunt is a cheapo SOB.

Originally Posted by WindyCity

I would love to get Mario Williams, but it would also mean that we would probably be paying 25-30 million dollars for our DEs in 2012. That is 20% of our cap on 2 players.

If we sign Mario Williams we will almost have to go WR in the draft and possibly with a couple of picks.

We could sign MWill and still have plenty left over to pursue WR's if we stay away from the most costly. Even with a $90 mil deal his 2012 cap cost could be far less than $10 mil if we structured it that way. We could have both Pep and him for under $20 mil in cap cost. Nowhere near $25-$30 mil. If that's the case they're doing it because they want to not because they need to.

Go look at the workup I did on a proposed $90 mil 6 year contract for MWill. We could put over $30 mil of cash in his pocket with a 2012 cap cost of $7.5 mil. Pep's 2012 cap cost is $11.3 mil. So that's $18.8, call it $19 mil between them or roughly 15% of the estimated cap. What makes that possible is that the rest of the Dline is making small time money so far. Not counting Okoye who's a FA we only have $2.6 mil of cap tied up in three DT's and another $600k and change in Wootton. We don't know what Izzy and Okoye may get but the whole line would come in somewhere around $25 - $28 mil for all 8 guys including MWill.