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Long - Carimi/Brown - Garza - Louis - Webb
that line looks better for sure... That's without thinking about the Draft
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Originally Posted by
WindyCity 
The money is the issue.
But Emery showed last season he would take a risk on a talented player, from Miami as well.
Marshall was coming off a year of mental health issues and attitude issues and was being investigated by the NYPD.
Emery still pulled the trigger.
If the money works maybe Long is the type is risk that Emery would take. If he is right and he is healthy he is the best OLmen we has had in 6 years.
I don't deny that Emery is aggressive when he sees a guy who could be a solution but in the case of Marshall last year he had the money and the picks to give and the money was fair. This year it appears to be a different story.
Whether what Long is looking for is fair or not is already questionable but even if it was closer to $8 mil per year it looks to me like he's still unaffordable. You'd really need to gamble on a long term deal in order to get his cap cost manageable this year.
I just don't see it happening. The need is there but Long outstrips our ability to pay for that need. I just don't see him taking a short term deal. Somebody other than Emery will have enough cap space to take the risk.
I'm getting to that age where a lifetime warranty just doesn't mean as much to me anymore as an afternoon nap. 
Honey Badger Don't Care. Honey Badger Don't Give a Shit.
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I dont see a plus ten mil a year olinemen on this team
we skipped some bad ass talent last season when we had cap space so why would they pony up now for oline when we dont have money
Long is bad ass but ????????? surround his injuries. IDK if I feel comfortable paying him 11 mil a year with injury issues and with all our FA and not having much to spend on top of that
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We have to pay a LT soon. Webb enters his final year and he will get a good raise from a team when he hits free agency. Wait for next year and hope for the best or just go out and get one when you have the chance this year... while making a 100 million dollar decision
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Long got a “clean bill of health” from Dr. James Andrews this week, as the celebrity doc told Yahoo’s Jason Cole that Long should be ready to go soon after surgery to repair a torn triceps. Andrews said he’d give him another month to let the triceps heal, but if he had to play now, he could.
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Get Garza out of there and not sure I want Carimi at Guard let him and Webb fight it out at RT.
Originally Posted by
GermansbombedPH Long - Carimi/Brown - Garza - Louis - Webb
that line looks better for sure... That's without thinking about the Draft
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Originally Posted by
JJ-30 Get Garza out of there and not sure I want Carimi at Guard let him and Webb fight it out at RT.
No kidding!
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I think Carimi will be a fantastic guard. He just needs to learn the position. Screw the height/leverage stuff, it is a facile argument. He has a massive amount of burst power and a flexible low base -- which is exactly why he is a mammoth in the ground game. His problem was all about his severe lack of a kickslide last year -- nothing more, nothing less. It got so bad that he was overcompensating and still losing outside or getting shifted off balance on the bounce back rush inside. If all he had to face was working in a phone booth and the occasional trap and pull, he would be be a beast even if he never regains that strafe. I repeat, the strengths of his game on the ground are exactly what would allow him to excel on the interior against lower-leverage opponents.
This is all provided that he doesn't regain his kickslide.
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Originally Posted by
lklrlolnlilklsox I think Carimi will be a fantastic guard. He just needs to learn the position. Screw the height/leverage stuff, it is a facile argument. He has a massive amount of burst power and a flexible low base -- which is exactly why he is a mammoth in the ground game. His problem was all about his severe lack of a kickslide last year -- nothing more, nothing less. It got so bad that he was overcompensating and still losing outside or getting shifted off balance on the bounce back rush inside. If all he had to face was working in a phone booth and the occasional trap and pull, he would be be a beast even if he never regains that strafe. I repeat, the strengths of his game on the ground are exactly what would allow him to excel on the interior against lower-leverage opponents.
This is all provided that he doesn't regain his kickslide.
He should be given a chance at OG to prove something and again it connects to the other thread.
If we sign Moore for 2 years we are not ruling out James Brown or Gabe Carimi stepping up.
If we sign Levitre/Vasquez that is one OG position locked up for 5 years or more.
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