Funchess to Colts 1 Year 13 Million

[hepcat]

Lol good luck with that mess Colts, Funchess probably dropped the pen halfway through signing his name on the contract

[Wolfcop]

Unbelievable...and a great example of why you can't build a winner through free agency. That's about 3 times what he is really worth.

[LinvilleGorge]

2 minutes ago, Wolfcop said:

Unbelievable...and a great example of why you can't build a winner through free agency. That's about 3 times what he is really worth.

I would say it's 13 million times what he's worth, but 13 million times zero is still zero.

[AU-panther]

2 hours ago, Black&BlueBubba said:

Somebody want to let me in on how comp picks work?  Is it salary for the next year or is the total deal taken into account?  

What round comp will we get for 13mil?

Yearly average if I'm not mistaken, so really good deal for us if we keep the comp pick.

 

[FakePlasticTrees]

It is going to be an incentive laden prove it to me contract. The incentives will not be met unless the bar is set awfully low.

[Shocker]

His agent should get free blowjobs for life

[rayzor]

morons.

btw, cowherd is a jackass.

[TheSpecialJuan]

Bill Barnwell's take: 

Devin Funchess, WR, Indianapolis Colts

The deal: One year, $10 million (with an additional $3 million in incentives)
Grade: D+

While some were suggesting that the Colts and their $100 million war chest were going to be big spenders in free agency, it was always more likely that general manager Chris Ballard's organization would pick its spots and wait for prices to go down. There are no discounts on day one of the legal-tampering period. Although Indy did make a signing, it's going to raise some eyebrows.

It seemed likely that Funchess would have to settle for a one-year, prove-it deal after the Michigan product was excommunicated from the Panthers' offense during the second half of 2018, but I didn't expect him to get this sort of cash. If the Colts were willing to pay this much for a one-year deal on a young player, they should have been able to toe the line and get an option year to use if Funchess returned to form. There's always a middle ground -- maybe the second year would void if Funchess had a 1,500-yard season or something truly spectacular -- but speculative one-year deals for young players just don't make a lot of sense.

The closest equivalent to this last offseason was the one-year, $9.6 million deal Donte Moncrief signed with the Jaguars. I gave that deal an F for many of the same reasons. I'm a little more sanguine on Funchess' deal, if only because Funchess was better at his pre-free-agency peak (in 2017) than Moncrief was in his (2015). Funchess should take over the Dontrelle Inman role in Indy's lineup, but I wonder if the Colts would've been better off re-signing Inman at a lower rate.

[TheSpecialJuan]

1 minute ago, TheSpecialJuan said:

Bill Barnwell's take: 

Devin Funchess, WR, Indianapolis Colts

The deal: One year, $10 million (with an additional $3 million in incentives)
Grade: D+

While some were suggesting that the Colts and their $100 million war chest were going to be big spenders in free agency, it was always more likely that general manager Chris Ballard's organization would pick its spots and wait for prices to go down. There are no discounts on day one of the legal-tampering period. Although Indy did make a signing, it's going to raise some eyebrows.

It seemed likely that Funchess would have to settle for a one-year, prove-it deal after the Michigan product was excommunicated from the Panthers' offense during the second half of 2018, but I didn't expect him to get this sort of cash. If the Colts were willing to pay this much for a one-year deal on a young player, they should have been able to toe the line and get an option year to use if Funchess returned to form. There's always a middle ground -- maybe the second year would void if Funchess had a 1,500-yard season or something truly spectacular -- but speculative one-year deals for young players just don't make a lot of sense.

The closest equivalent to this last offseason was the one-year, $9.6 million deal Donte Moncrief signed with the Jaguars. I gave that deal an F for many of the same reasons. I'm a little more sanguine on Funchess' deal, if only because Funchess was better at his pre-free-agency peak (in 2017) than Moncrief was in his (2015). Funchess should take over the Dontrelle Inman role in Indy's lineup, but I wonder if the Colts would've been better off re-signing Inman at a lower rate.

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/26152205/barnwell-2019-nfl-free-agency-trade-grades-tracking-every-big-signing-move

[LinvilleGorge]

1 minute ago, TheSpecialJuan said:

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/26152205/barnwell-2019-nfl-free-agency-trade-grades-tracking-every-big-signing-move

D+ is really kind. It's an F all day long. 

[Cali_Panther]

5 hours ago, stbugs said:

As far as comp picks go, we can’t sign anyone yet. We should have held on to Anderson and not exercising (not same as releasing) Smith would have worked wonders for the formula. It’s net FAs lost first. So, even if Daryl signs for $20m a year, if he’s all we lose and we sign one FA (not released) at vet minimum then we get no picks as we lose 0 net players. If we signed no one then we lose a net one. Then it’s mainly average salary and Funchess and Williams should get 3rds being over $10m. Hopefully Funchess gets the incentives to make sure it’s a 3rd. 

We already lost Funchess. So if we lose Williams, that’s net -2 (Reid doesn’t count, because we resigned our our free agent). 

So if nothing else happens (not likely) we either resign Williams and we have net -1 (likely 3rd or 4th round pick from Funchess) or we let Williams walk and we net two picks.

[Snake]

Poor Andrew luck gets another WR who cant catch. Williams is going to,get paid big time if this is the market.

[cardiackat88.]

Well so much for “big tall targets for Cam”....

[Waldo]

Funchise has a great agent because he showed nothing last year worth half that pay. Holy cow, what a massive waste of money.