Falcons Signing DT Dontari Poe To One-Year, $8M Deal Worth Up To $10M.

damn shame he didn't sign with BMore

Nevermore.

seems like a good deal for the ATL for a borderline franchise tag guy

In former Cowboy CB news...Brandon Carr to Ravens for 2/$12m & Morris Claiborne is supposed to be signing with the Jets soon.

Raiders signed Jared Cook, Zach Brown still in the building according to Vic Tafur.

Raiders are in full on compensatory pick trolling mode.

Cook was released so he doesn't count. Right now they'd be projected to get:

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Zach Brown wasn't released, though, so he'd count.

i suspect poe will be sacking cam newton a lot in the upcoming year

Connor Barwin to Rams, 1/$6.5m.

Raiders not signing Zach Brown right now, but probably signing EJ Manuel to a 1-year deal.

there's a max of 4/year.

wat
Guarantees must have been terrible

in lol owner news
apparently Jerruh doesn't want romo to go to Hou b/c he's afraid of losing a couple fans.

Lombardi is saying he's hearing Richard Sherman is available for the right price & that the Saints would be better of trading for him than Malcolm Butler because he actually plays the style they are looking to play.

Also said that the Seahawks would consider it because their salary cap is a mess & they think Sherman lacks leadership. He doesn't think Sherman will get traded, but it's out there.

If the Seahawks are concerned about their cap wouldn't they just be better off not signing Joekel & Rotund Eddie?

His point there was in Seattle's defense, superstar CB is less valued than anywhere else.

So it makes perfect sense the Saints want to run that defense and acquire him.

(though with the saints, they run a different defense every year anyway)

I think he was just throwing **** at a wall, it's a podcast, it's what ya do.

He might have a point in fit/acquisition terms, but I don't see why seattle would make the move, they just paid more than sherms salary to a fat RB and an OT who can't block so they clearly dgaf about cap space.

This lack of leadership crap seems like nonsense on a 53 man roster. You only need a few true leader types. Too many and they start butting heads.

Could you get a 1st for Sherman? Seems unlikely if Butler is looking like he is only going to net a 3rd.

Revis netted a 1st but that really didn't workout too well for Tampa.

It does seem like Lombardi was just throwing it out there though.

Unless Kam and Earl come along with that package I'd want nothing to do with Sherman. After Earl got hurt, their D became average last season. Most of the Seattle CB castoffs have been hot garbage.

Where are you seeing that Butler is looking like he's only going to net a 3rd?

I thought I read that, but then looked back at various blurbs and couldn't find it.

Anything more than that seems like a big haul when you've got to pay Butler top $. He is already 27 as well.

Think we'll know soon enough. Probably by end of weekend.

More I think of it, I'd be really surprised if he signs the tender and plays for NE again. Unless he takes like a 2/20 or something.

Signing a tender and going back into the same locker room where you have been the #1 CB the last 2 years but you didn't get paid and there is another guy who just got a 40mill signing bonus just seems far fetched and the type of thing the Pats would try to avoid.

Yeah not saying you're wrong but he's not gonna be expensive for the Pats to keep this year and even if they tag him next year having two years of him at effectively a moderate price seems >> than a 3rd. Also this would be kind of a ****up by the Pats considering there probably is/was a chance to extend him at a reasonable price.

Butler doesn't have any leverage to sit out. & he hasn't made enough in his career yet to lol @ $4m. Patriots aren't going to give him away.

Raiders apparently considering bringing back Marshawn Lynch & either trading Seattle something nominal for him or Seattle cutting him to go there because their GMs are friends from their GB days. Marshawn is from there.

Why would Pats trade him for a 3rd if they can let him walk after this year and (very, very likely) net a 3rd round compensatory pick?

Why would they trade Jamie Collins for a 3rd?

Same dynamic.

I still don't think I've seen a rationale for that trade that makes sense, but I would think that with the way Pats think they'd be worried about the precedent they'd be setting by giving away two players for nothing back to back so that they can go get paid somewhere else early.

I think the Jamie Collins trade was a legit addition by subtraction situation. He wasn't doing what was asked / wasn't playing to capabilities / BB thought he was a bad apple / thought he could shake up and improve the defense by replacing him. something like that.

on a pure value basis (let's take a 3rd rounder a year early in return for giving up a starting defensive player in the midst of a great year) it never really made sense. there has to be something else going on.