Jump to content
  • Welcome!

    Register and log in easily with Twitter or Google accounts!

    Or simply create a new Huddle account. 

    Members receive fewer ads , access our dark theme, and the ability to join the discussion!

     

Ravens cut Eric Weddle


ncfan

Recommended Posts

All safeties have to be interchangeable to a certain degree or your defensive secondary is going to be really predictable. Yeah, every coach would love to have that safety who both except in playing centerfielder and at stepping up in the box and playing g tough against the run, but you actually have to pay those guys.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

-sc5J6Qd_bigger.jpgCalvin WatkinsVerified account @calvinwatkins
FollowFollow @calvinwatkins
More

Let’s clear this up now. A source tells @TheAthleticDFW Cowboys have no interest in Earl Thomas or Landon Collins. The financial price is too steep. This isn’t new news. Now Cowboys also have no interest in Eric Weddle either. Price is everything.

6:18 PM - 5 Mar 2019
Link to comment
Share on other sites

10 minutes ago, Zaximus said:

I'm not saying we will do it, but why are people acting like Weddle is a bum?    He's a top 10 FS and would be a monster upgrade here.   

Agreed. He isn't a long-term solution, but other than Mike Minter, the Panthers really haven't had a long-term solution at safety that I can remember.

Weddle *should* be a good signing at a reasonable price that won't break the salary cap and will allow the Panthers to focus draft picks in other positions of need. 

It also helps resolve part of the linebacker issue. Think about this. When the Panthers play a nickel or dime package on defense, it allows Eric Reid to play a hybrid DB/LB spot with Weddle and Gaulden in the safety spots. And Shaq Thompson isn't asked to do what he can't, which is to cover a TE/WR.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I swear Marty Hurney may be the dumbest GM in the league.

 

Let your damn players see free agency, unless they are great.  We rushed to sign our SS before the opening of free agency...a free agency period where the S position is both undervalued, and over saturated.

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

13 hours ago, Waldo said:

That is true but he was a year removed from good when we got him and no where near his best his whole time here. His brains are still amazing but his body was used and old before he ever wore our jersey. 

I can't agree with that at all. He was still playing at a high to above average level until last season. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

13 minutes ago, thefuzz said:

I swear Marty Hurney may be the dumbest GM in the league.

 

Let your damn players see free agency, unless they are great.  We rushed to sign our SS before the opening of free agency...a free agency period where the S position is both undervalued, and over saturated.

 

Signing Reid early meant they had a better picture of what money they have and where to draft though, so I sort of understand.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

18 minutes ago, thefuzz said:

I swear Marty Hurney may be the dumbest GM in the league.

 

Let your damn players see free agency, unless they are great.  We rushed to sign our SS before the opening of free agency...a free agency period where the S position is both undervalued, and over saturated.

 

Are you aware that free agency doesn't open until next week? We have no idea what the safety market is going to be. Everyone is just sorting through rumors and innuendo. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

5 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

Are you aware that free agency doesn't open until next week? We have no idea what the safety market is going to be. Everyone is just sorting through rumors and innuendo. 

I'm fully aware.

Are you aware of trends, other teams cap casualties, and roster management in general?

The S market was/is being devalued, that started at least 2 years ago, and was certainly evident last off season.  Marty, instead of letting Eric test the free agency market, just decided to sign him "before someone else could".  It's called betting against yourself, and Marty has a history of it.

Think Charles Johnson, Eric Reid, and now I'm petrified that we will do the same with Williams.

Maybe the rest of the S's clean up in Free Agency and the Reid contract will look like a bargain....but I highly doubt it.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.


  • PMH4OWPW7JD2TDGWZKTOYL2T3E.jpg

  • Topics

  • Posts

    • Yeah and I am doubtful he can offer that consistently. I don’t have many years left at my age and in my view we have wasted two and this whole exercise with him was always a three year minimum.  I am out on that with a guy I don’t believe in, and never believed in, it has sucked. To me it is a costly detour off the right track. Years.    But I am not so rigid that I can’t see excellence. He needs to display it though, consistently before I change my outlook.  
    • No, when I said rage, I meant rage, which only applies to certain fans on this board. Your timeline of trying to assess whether he is the future or not is really tied to the discussions surrounding his second contract. If this team is going to commit to some monster contract while he has shown nothing but glimpses of brilliance would be deservedly worrisome, so the clock is genuinely ticking for him to settle into something resembling his final form. Perhaps a best case scenario is that he plays well, the team succeeds, but he does so with a more limited role that makes the rest of the league view him as a game manager, and his second contract value reflects that. Then he continues to improve and becomes a bargain comparatively while not handicapping the team around him, and we enter an era of consistent championship competitiveness that the fanbase has craved for decades and has never really experienced before. But that requires many, many things to go right and for Bryce himself to facilitate that if he ends up being the quarterback of the future.
    • Exactly. And the flame throwers as well, get location benefits from not going all out. But they have it in reserve.  Not sure how much Greg had but he was an artist.  There was a YouTube I came across last year or maybe even 2023 and I don’t how to even find now but it had two NFL QBs I want say one was Carr from the Raiders but I don’t really remember  The point of it is they stood side by side throwing identical distances to identical targets. Radar gun was used.  They threw the normal effort (not all out) and it was measured etc. Then they were asked to throw their ‘fastball’. They were missing and most often they were missing high. It demonstrated the same principle.    edit: and applying that to arm strength, give me the guy that doesn’t need max effort to have good velocity. The margins are so narrow with less velocity in tne NFL the defenders can Close on it and this is a league where they value down to the 100th of a second level. It is that tight 
×
×
  • Create New...