Ron says we could be looking at another OT

[Marguide]

Our GM tagged one of the best defensive ends in football to try and either keep him around for a Super Bowl run or try to work out a long term deal. How could he have known the NFL would create a new rule suspending him indefinitely?

 

When he tagged him, I was sure it was either to try to trade him for picks prior to the draft or to sign him long term. We later found out from Voth and others that Gettleman never intended to sign him to a long term deal. So he made the decision to pay Hardy $13 million as a one year rental.

 

That is the part that's questionable to me. You franchise people to give you a chance to work out a deal, or you think you are close to winning it all as you mentioned. Otherwise, it just seems foolish for a team with the cap issues we had and given our holes on offense and DB.

 

Clearly, Gettleman shoulders no blame for the DV issue. That's on Greg and Goodell.

[Semaj]

Who is out there that we could trade for? ANY tackle is better than what we have..

He is going to search the arena football league. Problem solved.

[Semaj]

I am 5'11.

I weigh 175lbs.

I am available to play LT starting this Thursday night.

Great idea. We should have open tryouts. That will definitely fit into our budget. Problem solved for the league minimum. Why didn't we think of this sooner?

[Metalli_cat]

Just thinking out loud, but I wonder if Gross would have stuck around if his contract hadn't been restructured to void after last season.

Maybe he would be gone regardless, but I'm sure it would be more difficult to walk away with money on the table.

At any rate, the loss of Gross left the biggest hole on the team. One that wasn't addressed, really. At least they brought in something(good or bad) at S and WR.

I get the feeling it's too late for a trade. Doubt much help is coming.

[Rhell]

David Stewert, 9yr vet previously on the Titans

Tyson Clabo 9yr vet previously on the Dolphins

Levi Brown 7yr vet previously on the Steelers

 

Thats about it on retread OT that are on the market

 

http://www.nfl.com/freeagency

 

Levi Brown might be ok

 

Also, i think they worked out J'Marcus Webb during the off-season.  He is pretty bad too though.

[panfanman]

I really hope they do something before Thursday. One can dream, amirite?

yes, you can dream and that's all. If we brought somebody in today, it would be too late. They have no time to learn the system to play by Thursday.

[jtm]

No problem with the play calling in the redzone? Sounds like he wants to blame the players instead. I'm about done with Ron.

Kelvin dropped a TD

[tiger7_88]

No we didn't. Bill Voth has said this 20 or more times. They never offered Anthony Collins a contract or even got into serious discussion with his agent. It never happened. Dave got caught with his pants down on the OT position.

That's because the preliminary discussions looked like this...

DG: This is the range we're looking at to be able to fit under our cap.

AC agent: That ain't nowhere near good enough.

DG: Any wiggle room?

AC: Not enough to get down near what you need.

DG: Thanks for coming in.

So, yeah, no contract was "offered".

[Bj-Monster23]

I agree with you. I was not in favor of tagging Hardy. I would have much rather signed a safety and OT.

But we did still try and sign a starting calibre OT and did not get him.

No we didn't try to sign an OT at all.

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[Matthias]

Our GM tagged one of the best defensive ends in football to try and either keep him around for a Super Bowl run or try to work out a long term deal. How could he have known the NFL would create a new rule suspending him indefinitely?

 

Before his situation came up, I didn't think it was a good idea to tag him.  I considered it to be a rental year, and we would have let him walk in the offseason to get paid somewhere else.  We had a mass amount of problems on the offensive side of the ball, and we let Smitty go.  I think we knew Gross was retiring early on, so we needed to make that side a priority.  Giving Hardy the tag is a sign Rivera is defensive minded first, and offense takes a back seat.

[beckersteen]

Kelvin dropped a TD

That was one play. We should have beat these guys by 2-3 possessions. The play calling was terrible every play. I don't give KB a pass, don't get me wrong, but that shouldn't have lost us the game. We dominated for the post part, but had nothing in the redzone. I symptom of Shula. 

[FootballMaestro]

How about looking for another OC???

[KendrickPanther]

The Bucs are not happy with Anthony Collins....They are paying him $5m for 5 years. We are paying Bell 2m for 1. It's going worse for them believe it or not.

[Paa Langfart]

We have signed Mike Remmers from the Rams practice squad