Jake Long to the Rams
 

Looks like Long signed with the Rams according to ESPN 101 out of St. Louis. I'll get a link when one pops up.

Jim Thomas‏@jthom1
LT Jake Long signs four-year deal with Rams. Can earn up to $36 million

Jim Thomas, beat writer for Post-Dispatch.

Q...see free agency thread

Came here to say Q

This sets the market for Albert, does it not?

4 years, $36m.

That's four years at $9m a pop.

How much you want to bet that's far closer to what the Chiefs offered than what Albert wanted.

This has got to bring Albert down. If it does, we've got a chance to have him locked up and put the Luke Joeckel bullshit to rest.

Not as long as we don't have a person to play RT long-term. Until then the OT stuff will keep up.

You don't take a RT at 1.1 with the intention of playing him there for 5 years.

Offer Albert 5/40 and see if he bites. extra year in exchange for the lower AAV. And that's probably still better than he'd do in FA by a long shot.

Afterall, he still needs to worry about the tag getting pulled if we end up drafting joeckel. If that happens, he's pretty boned.

Explain why.

He'll basically get offered what Long just got.

Most teams will have used up their available cap space. I don't many teams with significant needs at lt are keeping an abundance of cap space available, plus leaving the roster spot open, on the chance that Albert gets released.

Boned is strong, but he won't get 8 million in AAV, imo, not after teams that needed a tackle had the draft to acquire one. His leverage diminishes in a hurry at that point.

I thought he signed...then reports say he didn't and left town w/o a deal, now he's officially signed?

Rams let him leave yet still got it done -that- is a tough deal to get done, once someone has left your premises in a high stakes environment, all bets are off... gotta give something up hoping to get them back.

If Fisher doesn't get with the future program, that team wont care in the long run, they will just get tired of being fed another boring offense that doesn't inspire nor ignite them... hate to say it, but Fisher is going to to Kick Ass his way to 9-7... the man flat refuses to invest in the modern pass game, just look at what he's sticking Bradford with.

The rams need to spend, or keep being the flyover leftover, just like KC has been... belly up to the money or get drunk and get out.

He signed because you thought he didn't and you're you.

Sam Bradford should send you a Christmas card, you just secured his blind side for him with the patented CoMo seal of...whatever.

He is still going to be protecting Sam Bradford. LOL, waste of 4 years. Rams should have got rg3