LinvilleGorge

Mark Barron isn't a FA guys. The Rams simply didn't pick up the 5th year option on his 1st round rookie contract. He's still signed through this season.

Yeah, I think Richardson's knees are just shot.

It's not all bad. He can hang out here at watch the games. That wouldn't suck.

Damn, that sucks. Feel terrible for the kid, the Jags, their fans, just awful.

Oh poo. I was about to say that hopefully it'll turn out to be something minor, but that video... man, that did not look good. That knee buckled bad.

Good grief, are La'el and Jerruh gonna jerk each other off right there on camera? Sure sounds like it.

The Cowboys certainly looked stacked on paper, but they've been underperforming on the field for the past decade plus. They're the Cowboys. They'll find a way to flame out and it'll probably be via Romo throwing TDs to the wrong team.

Hey, I'd much rather him sign with Dallas than with N.O.

Hey, when you have a chance to land Nordstrom talent for Dollar Tree prices, it's what you SHOULD do. Smart move by the cowgirls.

The contract is fully guaranteed. The contract is dirt cheap. Unless he's absolutely terrible, he ain't getting cut.

Just looked it up and the money difference between OG and LT isn't nearly what I thought it would be. OG actually outpaces RT in terms of pay. The highest paid LT in the league this year is Tyron Smith at $12.2M. The highest paid OG is Logan Mankins at $8.5M. Obviously, the elite LTs get paid considerably more than the elite OGs, but that gap narrows significantly when you get out of the elite category. The 20th highest paid LT is Matt Kalil at $4.9M. The 20th highest paid OG is Shaun Lauvau at $4.25M. If you're a top 15 LT, you're getting paid a premium for that position. But beyond about #15, it evens out between LT and OG. RT has become the red headed step child of the OL. Surprisingly, you're a lot better off playing OG than you are playing RT. The highest paid RT is Gosder Cherilus at $7M and the #20 RT is Don Barclay at $1.54M. Want a kick in the balls? Nate Chandler is #21. He'll make almost as much this year as La'el Collins will in the next three years combined.

Jerry Jones prepping for Collins' visit

Unless he hits that 30 year old wall really hard, he'd probably have a chance to break the single season rushing yardage record in Dallas this year.

By the time the draft got here, especially by the third day, all indications were that Collins was likely to be cleared. I gotta think that word was sent out to the 32 teams that drafting Collins was going to be highly frowned upon by the league. The NFL didn't want anymore PR black eyes on the domestic violence front. Drafting Collins before he was officially cleared would've been spun by some media outlets as a black eye.

I think Gettleman learned his lesson about the one year deals when both Ginn and Mitchell bolted for bigger money elsewhere after one decent season here. If you can get a guy locked up for two years on low cap figures, do it.

Now I'm REALLY surprised that he ended up on the Cowboys. Jerry definitely put some money in a briefcase.

Seriously dude, your reading comprehension skills are pathetic. I'm saying there is NO INDICATION that we were interested. That is not a definitive statement. I am welcoming someone to show me that I'm wrong on that and if they do, I'll own it.

People get so hung up on the UNC thing on this board. I would've been screaming just as loud for Hurst last year if he'd played for NC State. We needed OTs. He played OT and was a decent prospect before breaking his leg late in the season. It was a no brainer. Get over the UNC thing.

For all those who are blindly defending Gettleman and the Panthers on this one, someone please go find a credible piece of info that links the Panthers to Collins. I heard Cowboys, Dolphins, Bills, Eagles, Saints, and Giants. Not a peep about the Panthers. I very well could be wrong, but wouldn't surprise me in the least if J.R. told Gettleman it ain't gonna happen on his watch.

Key word here is "higher". We had David fuging Foucault taking meaningful snaps for us at OT last year. Think about that. I'm not saying that James Hurst would've solved our OT issues by a long shot, I'm simply saying that he was better than guys we had on the roster last year. Hell, I'd say he was better than all but Remmers.

He ain't getting cut. He's signed on a dirt cheap fully guaranteed contract. If he shows any promise at all, he's going to stick on the roster.

Good lord, man. I think literally EVERYONE understands that. What I'm saying is that when you have a guy who is considered a 1st or 2nd round prospect who is available for dirt cheap at a position of need, you'd think we'd be ALL OVER HIM.

Collins was on the national radar. We weren't relying on our terrible local beat writers on this one. I'm not "bashing" the organization. I'm simply stating that it would be in accordance with our recent history if we didn't even inquire about Collins. We had James Hurst here in our backyard for the taking last year and showed zero interest. He went on to start at OT for the Ravens last year as a UDFA while we fielded the worst OT tandem in the NFL in Byron Bell and Nate Chandler.

Possibly. But again, no indications that we even made an effort. Pretty stunning that the guy went to the team where he'll have the most competition to get on the field and a team where he'll have zero chance to play LT. Gotta think they're either looking at RT or OG for him. I would've definitely thought he would've wanted to go to a team that at least offered him a shot at competing for the LT position. Marginal starting LTs get PAID. Other than QB, it's probably the safest position in the NFL in terms of landing big money deals.

I haven't heard a single thing that indicates that we were heavily involved, so it's likely a decent assumption that we weren't.