Byrd to NO Saints
 

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Fack the Saints.

They only had two million in cap space, how the heck did they do that?

Nice pick up.

Impossible CP said the Chiefs couldn't sign him because of money but he signs with another team that has less money.

I'm crying inside.

Oh but we have no space! And they need to sign jimmy graham. Ya bullshit

6 year deal

I'm beginning to ponder our front office's motives

Transition period dude.

You don't have to be under the cap right now....I forget the deadline of when you have to be under the cap, but right now you can spend what you want.

Buccaneers agree to terms with Alterraun Verner

they were asleep after the afternoon bar-b-que session at andy's

I am glad we didn't get Byrd. I want Berry to be a Chief forever and we weren't going to have $15 to $20 million locked up in the safety position.

Bye bye sproles (3.5 mil cap number) and pierre thomas (2.9 mil cap number - no dead money)

38-10. ALL you need to know about this franchise.

Why?

We don't even know the price tag yet.

Why in earth would you trade for Sproles now? He's for sure to be cut

Cap space is myth. If you want to spend on players, you can, regardless of what your cap situation is.

Best Cover 2 type corner. Ohhh and **** the Saints.

Avoid giving a 30 yr old back a multi-year deal.

Oh, shut up Blackbob.

This team needs to build to beat Peyton Manning and you do that by having good back end coverage and taking the ball away in coverage.

Not this move in general, just how the entire day is unfolding. I understand not resigning Tyson, BA, and McCluster, but letting Schwartz and Asamoah go has me :hmmm:

This.

This. Especially when you have a lot of high dollar base salaries on your roster and the cap is about to explode.

We could have 150 million in cap spending right now and fairly easily get under the cap by making 3 moves.

There is ALWAYS a way.

The Seahawks whipped his ass with defensive linemen who could knock down passes at the line of scrimmage. They took away the short passing game. That's what we need to work on. You can have all the cover guys in the world but the refs aren't going to call those chip blocks when Peyton is on the field.

We spent a ton of money last season. We were one of the top spenders. Put your patience hat on. Teams always over pay on the first day.

Absolutely. I hate when I read about how Dorsey is cap strapped. He knew the dollars he was spending last year and he knew the likely crop to be available this year.

He didn't want to invest in the high end talent. Can argue the rights and wrongs of it, but if he wanted to get players out of this crop, he had ways to do it.

And that's what pisses me off.

It's looking more and more like that big spending "splurge" last year in fa was a pr spin to win as much as they could to get fans back

yep, a team can get cap room whenever they want in the short term. It's whether you are ready to make a push or not. Whether your owner is willing to make a push.

Apparently Dorsey/Reid/Hunt don't want to make a push yet.

:sulk:

What deal from last years offseason looks good now?

I'm beginning to think we are going to try our damnedest to trade out of the first round.

Just chill.

None of those guys are worth what they got outside of maybe Albert and even that deal has question marks due to injuries. No way I'd give Asamoah 4.5 per year...Tyson Jackson at 5/yr? No. McCluster at 4/yr lol. I'm sure Schwartz got way more than he's worth, too.

Give Dorsey credit, he is in touch with who each of these guys are and what they bring and showed last year that he has a knack of finding FA bargains to fill roles without overspending.

The Chiefs way.

Yawwwn, oh wait a minute... :ZZZ:

If you expected this guy, that's on you...

We are 4 hours and 43 minutes into this and we won eleven games last year. Now Dorsey sucks?

The sky is falling!!!! LOL

You have no idea how those contracts actually break down and the cap hit for each year.

We had a big spending splurge last year?

Dumbass.

They were able to do that because they have great safety play.

When you know the opposing team isn't gonna be trying to throw deep, you can prepare your DL to get their hands up to knock down the short passes and for your corners to jump the short routes.

If we had added Byrd, we could have mimicked that approach.

or we can hit on our 5th round Safety like the Seahawks did with their SS.

...or their 7th round LBer that was Super Bowl MVP

or their undrafted DT.

or their two 5th round CBs.

March and April are ratings sweep time. Stupid n00bs

How ****ing much did he sign for if its under 8 ill be pissed

In a nutshell, we were NEVER going to add Byrd. It was really unrealistic to EVER think that was going to happen. I'm sorry you are depressed.

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Damn

Well at this point, we have no cap room and just let 3/5 of our O-line walk. I really hope he can fill this without overspending, but he has a lot less room to work with this year.

Last year it was about churning the bottom of the roster. We didn't break the bank on free agents last year really when we had more room. I agree they just don't want to spend big in fa. GB doesn't and it seems like philly got burned bad when they did recently.
I think they will get pieces but not stars in fa. Until they reach the point where 1 more player puts you over the top.At that point I want to believe they will pull the trigger.

There was no way byrd was ever coming to KC. There's no way they could ever afford two contracts of that size at safety.

If we had signed him, we'd be paying our safeties $19 million this year. No team would do that. It was never going to happen fellas.

Yeeaaaaaa . . . . no. :shake:

Seahawks will when they lock up Earl.

So much for Bill Pollian saying he should get in the 6 million dollar a year range :clap::clap:

No worries,


Commings is ready to rape souls.....


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****. That.

of course they COULD ... they just never WOULD

too much for the safety position


Romeo screwed the pooch in a big way by putting a top 5 safety in the box.

Yeah, I considered making it 'would', but either way, the point stands.

Or that they are trying to lock up Houston AND Alex Smith long term and don't want to go spending elsewhere before locking up our own guys first, then do our best to bargain shop again with anything left over.


That's a short sighted view.

If we had 3 good safeties, this defense would be an elite unit and would really give Peyton a run for his money.

Go back and watch the first Denver game (when Houston and Hali were healthy) and try to imagine that defense with Byrd.

What's done is done and 9/yr is a HUGE paycheck, but in today's NFL (where guys that aren't nearly as good are getting 7-8 per year) that's a bargain.

Guys that play a role in 38 turnovers in less than 5 years are worth their weight in gold.

The only thing more short sighted would be dedicating that much of your cap to safety.

Not with Russell Wilson's contract coming up. Have they even paid Chancellor yet? They probably won't be able to keep him, Thomas and Wilson.

In a division with an aging Peyton Manning?

I completely disagree.

IMO every single move we make needs to be aimed at beating Manning.

There's a reason they moved so quickly to sign TJ ward...they didnt want him to have a chance at making it to KC and rightfully so.

5 years 28m

Houston doesn't need to be locked up yet and they should have a decent idea what it's going to take for Alex Smith if not both players.

no excuses

they are choosing not to spend and if it costs us winning then the clock starts ticking on them losing their jobs imo.

Ward is going to be our worst nightmare tbh...

Houston gets about a million and Alex gets about 8.

Houston is gonna get around 12 and Alex is gonna get around 17.

That's a big chunk of cash that is needed to get them both locked up long term.

The Killer Bs didn't work out so well last time it was tried

I agree.

That dude is a ****ing beast and I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw Denver signed him.

Clemons can probably be had for half the cost of Byrd.

Less than half. I'll bet they could snag Clemons for $4m per.

Yeah, I honestly think Dorsey had a set out plan in free agency- and that plan involved Ward. The Donkey's ****ed us hard on this one and it will cause us problems when we face them this year... Jamaal Charles? Meet the #1 Safety against the run.

Either way I think our fall back is Clemons or the draft at this point.

Less than that. He's only had 1 team interested so far according to reports. The Jets. Miami kept him on a 1-year $2.5 mil deal. We could bring him in for as little as $3 mil if the Jets don't bid for his services.

I like Ward but he is very suspect in coverage. That's why he's not a Brown and they paid Whitner instead. He is a nasty and does a good job setting the tone. I wish we would get a couple of guys like that.

Considering there are 64 Safety's in the league and he's ranked #14 against the pass... I'd say he's pretty decent?

He's pretty solid in coverage and as a single high type player

That's Blackbob. What do you expect. It's not like he's watched Browns games and he loves talking out of his ass.

I was going to say that the sell job to go to New Orleans after spending a few years in Buffalo probably wasn't too terribly hard, then I saw this...

There was just absolutely no way he was going to go anywhere else. A shame, because he alone would have upgraded our defense significantly.

"Salary Cap". My ass.

Yeah, but he is also limited to that role because he isn't very good in run support. He also hasn't proven to be much of a play maker either, just a solid guy who can cover some ground and help prevent the deep play. That's why he will be pretty cheap and why we need him.

That's what we need at FS

I'd be happy with Clemons, but I think we may want to wait and draft a safety.