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Jaguars and falcons to pursue Julius Thomas


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I hope the Falcons sign Julius Thomas. He turned down $8M per year from Denver last year so he's clearly looking for a lot of money, and I bet they pay him a lot. Peyton made him seem much better than he is. Good redzone target but has a whole lot of trouble staying healthy and is far from a game changer like Gronk or Graham. 

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I hope the Falcons sign Julius Thomas. He turned down $8M per year from Denver last year so he's clearly looking for a lot of money, and I bet they pay him a lot. Peyton made him seem much better than he is. Good redzone target but has a whole lot of trouble staying healthy and is far from a game changer like Gronk or Graham. 

 

This.  He's a good TE, don't get me wrong, but I'd love to see the Falcons spend even more money on pass catchers while neglecting their major deficiencies - defense and OL.  They had the #5 passing offense in the NFL last year and the #32 defense.  So, yeah, PLEASE spend more money on pass catchers while neglecting the D!  I love it!

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If it's a player for the Panthers: "Pay the man! It's not my money who cares? Two TE sets!""

If it's a another team: "I hope they over pay and destroy their team!"

 

I don't think that's necessarily true at all.  A lot of us here were concerned about handing J. Stew a big money deal after DeAngelo already had his.  A lot of us here questioned the logic behind franchising Hardy last year tying up about 20% of our total cap space in our starting DEs. 

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