Seattle signed Bobby Wagner
 

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Linebacker Bobby Wagner has agreed to terms on a four-year extension with the Seahawks, per a source familiar with the deal, according to NFL Media's Rand Getlin.

Wagner was a first-team All-Pro selection in 2014 despite missing five games due to injury. The former second-round pick out of Utah State was slated to collect $977,427 in the final year of his rookie deal.

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Salary cap is a myth.

It's not a myth but it can be finessed to the maximum

It's a myth.

Can't wait for Hooite and "Saul Good" to explain the terms.

Damn.

kam chancellor set to leave?

No. But he won't get paid till the offseason.

I love it. The salary cap chicken littles were talking about how Russel's new contract would cripple the team and instead the Hawks keep on rolling.

It's not like Wilson signed a ground breaking deal of anything. The deal he signed is much more team friendly than people expected given how Wilson and his agents were talking.
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Seattle is pretty much signing all their top level guys, letting the 2nd level guys go and going with rookies etc as replacements

$93 million over four years making Wagner the highest paid LB in football.

Seems like Wagner is always hurt, too.

If that's what Wagner was demanding, they should have kept their other guys and let Wagner's ass walk.

Uhh. No. More like $43 million. Making him the highest paid MLB in football.

ESPN is saying 93 mill on Facebook.

They're lying. I linked it.

Wagner is the best ILB in the league right now, and he and Chancelor are the straws that stir that defense.

You don't let that guy walk.

Yeah in the article it says 43 million. I would say their editor is not up to the task.

If they paid him more than Wilson, that town would burn. It's honestly funny watching their fans complain that both of these players were overpaid.

Yeah, the Facebook staff are asleep at the wheel this morning.

You only have so much cap to work with. You can structure contracts accordingly but ultimately everyone has to pay the piper.

Wagner wasn't overpaid.

You watch the Seattle team when he was or wasn't on the field last season. They are a completely different animal with Wagner than without. He is a difference maker to that team. In that scheme, as Milkman stated, he is the best ILB in the NFL.

Looking at the contract, I don't think Wilson was overpaid either.

Sacc is right for once. Wags is a ****ing beast and arguably the most important piece of that defense.

We're lucky as shit to have drawn them when he was out last season.

Nevermind. It's 43 million, not 93.

Absolutely. That extension is worth it.

No dude. You missed what I said. Someone said Wagner got 92 million for 4 years. THAT would be overpaid. Schneider did a great job on these 2 contracts.

I wonder what Mychal Kendrick's wants, in terms of an extension.

The zebras tried to even the score a bit

It makes me wonder if the Eagles aren't anticipating his contract demands after this season.

If he signs for Wagner money, their comp pick would be better than what teams would be offering them in trade. The only disadvantage is they have to wait a season for the pick instead of collecting on it immediately. But then they would also get to use Kendricks for one more season.

Either way, it doesn't make sense why Chip is so sour on this guy.

Like I said, it wouldn't surprise me at all to see him hire his horse as an assistant coach. He's that insane.

That was pretty much the Colts strategy all through the Manning years. Keep Manning/Harrison/Wayne/Freeney/Mathis, etc... let everyone else walk, draft their replacements.

Agreed.

Yeah and they had Mebane out too. Huge hole right up the gut and we took advantage.

With the acquisition of Kiko Alonso, Kendricks is expendable.

It wouldn't shock me to see him moved before the trading deadline, or even preseason, to an ILB needy team.

Kendricks isn't Wagner.

He can ask for Wagner money all he wants but nobody's going to give it to him. If anything, Wagner should set a cap for Kendricks.

The cap is not a myth, but it damn sure seems like nobody seems inclined to learn much about it before shooting their mouth off. Even after the Wilson contract, getting Wagner signed was not going to be cost prohibitive. They already have Sherman, Thomas and Chancellor signed. Okung is probably gone but even that's not a foregone conclusion.

The cap exists and it's a hindrance, the Seahawks are just incredibly smart in how they manage theirs. It's really not that complicated.

So then the Hunt family is cheap!

It's a "myth" in repsect to the fact that teams won't lose important pieces they want to sign.

We've seen teams like Denver, who sign Manning to a huge deal while signing guys like DeMarcus Ware, Aqib Talib and now Demaryous Thomas while keeping their core intact.

The Dolphins have signed their QB long term as well as giving Suh a huge deal.

We've also seen teams try and fit the cap like New Orleans and then have a fire sale because they got burned badly.

They replaced Jimmy Graham and Ben Grubbs with Benjamin Watson and Mike McGlynn.

Seattle is "rolling" right now because they still have their core talent that they drafted from the beginning.

What happens when key pieces such as Brandon Mebane, Bruce Irvin, Russell Okung and JR Sweezy leave in free agency next season?

They need to draft to replace all of those players and their last 2 drafts (2013/2014) have been completely underwhelming, and they had 20 picks.
Their OL could legitimately be as bad as the 2014 Chiefs with 4 starters most likely leaving.

Schneider is facing his toughest task as GM: proving he wasn't lucky on a lot of draft picks and building a 2nd wave.

I think that that's why Ozzie Newsome is the best GM in the league. He lost a ton of starters after the SB and built them back into a playoff team in a tough division after one reloading season.

I don't consider dumping Graham and Grubbs as a "fire sale". Graham is often injured and the Saints got a nice haul in return.

McGlynn is nothing more than possible depth. The Saints have young guys in place to replace Grubbs, Who had a poor salary/performance ratio last year.

Good thing we got rid of Bowe!

It was time for a fresh start for both parties.

Chiefs get Maclin, Bowe goes to the finest franchise in the league.

Yes.

Just saw that they jettisoned DT Tony McDaniel as a cap casualty.

Teams like the Dolphins can go out and sign players every year because they constantly **** up their drafts and picks.

When you don't have to allocate a lot of money to keep your players because you can't ****ing draft and you like to cycle through FA's, you can make some splashes.

The Seahawks are backloading all of their deals and will really start to feel the pinch when the cap hits for the recent deals start to incline.

The Chiefs had a mixture of dudes into the bulk of their deals and bad contracts all at once.

The young successful teams will be fine vs the cap and the older successful teams will always struggle with it.

Well said.

Seattle signed Bobby Wagner
 

You should have started a thread abouuuuuuummmmm my bad.

Wow…. **** you Ben Niemann! Veach grab Wagner now!!

Actually Clay should start one with his whack ass sources. He’s still allowed ROFL


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You should have started a thread abouuuuuuummmmm my bad.

we have our LBs

I told the Gods mods to give your privileges back in his other thread. Seems my pull with them isn’t as good as I thought.

You should have started a thread abouuuuuuummmmm my bad.

Yup it’s gonna be a firesale…they’re blowing it up….

I’d call for Metcalf now! Offer pick #30

Well, I appreciate you my man.

Fight the good fight brotha!

Why the **** didn’t Pete just retire? This is going to be a shitty ****ing team

Won't happen. We need pass rush most of all and wrs.

Because he’s going to be stealing money this year. One of the highest paid coaches in the league and zero pressure to perform this year.

If he’s going to retire in a couple years anyway, might as well just coast for a year or two. No one expects them to contend for shit for the next few years.

[QUOTE=MAHOMO 4 LIFE!;16181122]I’d call for Metcalf now! Offer pick 30.

That I can do.

I wonder what his market will be.

He’s going to be 32 shortly, so he’s not getting big money.

I’d definitely bring a guy like him in for a ring chaser deal at like 5m. That would be a reasonable way to fill tons of snaps with quality.

I friggen love Bobby Wagner.

One of the most overlooked truly great players in NFL history. Arguably a top 5 MLB all time and nobody ever thinks of him in that light.

He’s one of the very few that was dominant in every facet. Run defense, coverage and pass rush. He’s a sound tackler while being a hard hitter, too. Deceptive speed. Invaluable.

if he goes for that price **** ya

He’s like the Derrick Brooks of MLBs.

Brooks was great at practically anything, but was constantly overshadowed by bigger names.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Crazy part about all this. I played there for 10 years &amp; I didn’t even hear it from them that I wasn’t coming back.</p>&mdash; Bobby Wagner (@Bwagz) <a href="https://twitter.com/Bwagz/status/1502353080033034243?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 11, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Yikes. Seattle's owner better wake up and get rid of both Schneider and Carroll. I'd be ****ing furious if I was a Seahawks fan and they were overseeing the rebuild.

That's actually pretty ****ed up lol

Do we want this piece of shit?

He'd be an excellent "leadership" replacement for Tyrann, as well as bolstering a young, promising LB duo. 120% on board with a Wagner signing. He immediately goes towards the top of my F/A wish list.

He’s going to the Donkos.


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Could see him signing with Cards, 49ers or Rams just so he can play Seattle twice a year.

I know he's not coming here for a variety of reasons.

But I'd be hard pressed to think of a player that I would rather have just out of sheer respect for what he's accomplished in this league and what he still has to offer as he's gotten older.

He's top 3 on my 'guys I've admired from afar' list among NFL players. He's always done his job at a HoF level, he's gone about it the right way and been a hell of a Seahawk.

Then to see them do him dirty like this is pretty awful.

Screw it - there's no reason he can't be a killer for us at Sam. Put Gay at the Will, Bolton at the Mike and let me go buy his goddamn jersey.

HWSTPOSY?!?!

Don’t have to replace Sorenson as much when you can add a guy like Wagner.

I hope so.

If so, I will do my duty as a Chiefs fan and hope he dies in an AIDS fire.

So I really hope it doesn't work out that way.

No actually we don't. But Wagner will not be one of them. He would have to be a depth role. I doubt that he would be interested in being a backup. We definitely do not need to put Bolton on the bench.

No, actually we do. They’ll add depth and a 3rd guy fro base, but that’s it.

Right, so we don't have our LBs yet.

We have our top 2 LBs. The two that will play the majority of the snaps, but sure if that’s what you meant.