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For Whom the "Bell" Tolls? Beware, the Bell might toll for us

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They are in a vacuum. But factor in the contracts they will be in search of. Do you offer one of these guys free agent LT money just to replace Bell?

 

This is one of those tricky things. We all operate under the assumption Bell will get no offers and we can throw a veteran minimum at him. I think you could see him get a modest three year deal somewhere with maybe 3m garaunteed. Many hurdlers couldn't believe that Lafell got a nice multi-year deal. 

 

Last offseason Bell took his time signing the tender and many huddlers projected their angst on him for having an ego and holding out. He didn't hold out but he did wait to sign the tender in hopes of getting more years on his contract. So if Bell returns, I would expect him to get more than a year. If someone else offers him multi years and we do not, he could leave.

 

I do agree that a low salary Bell is better for our franchise than a long term, high salary LT with mediocre performance.

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Throwing out something crazy here.. some generous huddler recently uploaded that wonderful Giants game from the 05/06 playoffs, at that point Travelle Wharton was playing LT for us while an, at that point 3 year vet Jordan Gross was manning the Right Side of the line, now Wharton obviously was better than Bell, but how about Amini? I mean he must have lost his Guard spot at this point to Norwell or Trai depending on the shuffle, could his salvation lie as a one year stop-gap LT while we draft and groom a replacement? He did play the position in College and Gettleman always says the Answer might be on the roster

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Throwing out something crazy here.. some generous huddler recently uploaded that wonderful Giants game from the 05/06 playoffs, at that point Travelle Wharton was playing LT for us while an, at that point 3 year vet Jordan Gross was manning the Right Side of the line, now Wharton obviously was better than Bell, but how about Amini? I mean he must have lost his Guard spot at this point to Norwell or Trai depending on the shuffle, could his salvation lie as a one year stop-gap LT while we draft and groom a replacement? He did play the position in College and Gettleman always says the Answer might be on the roster

 

The thought of Silatolu at LT gives me herpes.

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I don't care if we address it before, during, or after the draft; but if we go into two consecutive seasons with Bell as our starting LT it has to be one of the biggest failures in NFL front office history. 

 

Bell sucks, NO DOUBT ABOUT IT, but got to have a stop gap this year...and OP does make a solid point, the value is not there, and Bell will sign with us for pennies.  There is little to no doubt that we will draft a prospect at LT, but they will need time to grow, the hope was Chandler would show some promise, or Foucault would progress, neither really materialized, so now we really are going into a second year of needing to get someone to groom, but now we have the resources to do a better job of it.  A Tackle will be taken at some point in this draft and he will be our LT of the future.  I still say, Gettleman will only sign players where he feels that their Value is greater than their market value, Bell might (as sad as it is) actually fit that mould as everyone else is gonna command retarded amounts of money on the open market.

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