Jon Beason carted off field during non contact exercise.

[rayzor]

Not really. 

 

He had already been benched before he was traded, and he was getting paid way too much money to be a bench warmer.  Add in the fact that he didn't wanna be here if he wasn't starting at MLB.  Good as Beason was, he wasn't what he used to be, and there was no way he was getting that job back with Luke in there.

 

So you wind up with a 7th round pick, a little cap relief and a big contract off the books in exchange for a depth player.  That's not really what I'd consider a bad deal.

 

I've wished him all the success in the world, but the team made the right decision.

 

I only hope this injury isn't severe.

 

yep. he was a back up at Mike, Sam, and Will and was a liability in coverage so the safest place for him to be was on the sidelines considering how weak we were in pass D anyway. keek/TD/blackburn/klein/senn were quite enough to handle what we were doing on defense, esp. since we only had 2 LBs on the field a lot of the time. TD could play either OLB spot equally well and keek/blackburn/klein were capable of playing any spot along the line.

 

what we were paying him was way too much to warrant keeping around. he had also spent pretty much the previous 2 years on IR and wasn't particularly healthy or back to 100% at that point so there was a good bit of risk for any team with a slim likelihood that he could return to where he was pre-injuries.

 

giants paid a fair price...not for what beason had done in the past, but for the shape he was in and had been in for the past couple years. they took a minor gamble in giving up even a 7th and lucked out.

 

we got to pick up a 7th rounder and free up a good amount of cap space for a guy we weren't going to be using anyway. it was a win/win. it doesn't really matter what beason did after we traded him because there wasn't much of a chance that he would be able to perform at a high level for very long, if at all. giants just plain got lucky. we took what we could get for a guy in his situation.

[IamSoClutch]

He always gets hurt once he gets paid. But I wish him the best. Don't want any news like this coming out of our camp

[AceMan]

I think I will always have a soft spot for Big Beast...really hope it's not anything serious

[Woodcookedbbq]

Gettleman The Soothsayer strikes again...

[PandaPancake]

I think you are being sarcastic. Apparently others don't.

 

It's not like he turned on around the Giants defense or anything.

[The Huddler]

Good luck beast.

This is what happens when you try to push a body past their natural states. Muscles get stronger than what the body intended to keep it together with. Muscles get too powerful, strong for the ligaments and tendons that support them.

A&P A+

[jdpanther5]

Those of you citing cap savings... realize we only saved $1m. He reduced his base to $1m - possibly to help facilitate a trade, which is my theory - and that's all that went to New York. The $13m + in bonuses stay here as dead money.

I know some say he never would've started again, but you need backups too and at a $1m difference between keeping and trading him I'd say he'd be worth it as quality depth, just in case.

Of course this is moot now as he would've walked as a FA had he not been traded, but the cap space theory doesn't hold a ton of weight IMO.

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[j2sgam]

Only difference is when the Panthers cut Smith there was no budding young star to take his place like they had with Kuechly.

Yet....

Hopefully Beasons not hurt too bad, dude is a beast. Hope that man has a hurried, healthy recovery...

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[top dawg]

It's not like he turned on around the Giants defense or anything.

 

I don't think anyone believes he turned it around, but he surely helped, and reading some of the comments that I have seen on Twitter, Beason will most certainly be missed.

 

But, I think that you may have been missing my original point.  I believe that Right Hand Man was perhaps being sarcastic when he was essentially saying that we got a bad deal, but perhaps he wasn't.  The thing is, to me his departure was a good thing for us pretty much any way you slice it, and, in theory, it was a good deal for him as well because he could get back to what he does best (play MLB).

[PandaPancake]

I don't think anyone believes he turned it around, but he surely helped, and reading some of the comments that I have seen on Twitter, Beason will most certainly be missed.

 

But, I think that you may have been missing my original point.  I believe that Right Hand Man was perhaps being sarcastic when he was essentially saying that we got a bad deal, but perhaps he wasn't.  The thing is, to me his departure was a good thing for us pretty much any way you slice it, and, in theory, it was a good deal for him as well because he could get back to what he does best (play MLB).

 

But that's what ESPN said.

 

It was a win-win for me. Girlfriend is a Giants fan.

[Mr. Scot]

Those of you citing cap savings... realize we only saved $1m. He reduced his base to $1m - possibly to help facilitate a trade, which is my theory - and that's all that went to New York. The $13m + in bonuses stay here as dead money.

I know some say he never would've started again, but you need backups too and at a $1m difference between keeping and trading him I'd say he'd be worth it as quality depth, just in case.

Of course this is moot now as he would've walked as a FA had he not been traded, but the cap space theory doesn't hold a ton of weight IMO.

 

Nobody pays the kind of money Hurney gave Beason to a backup.

 

[Argus Plexus]

Probably nothing too serious. Doubt he re-ruptured his achilles.

[MadHatter]

Those of you citing cap savings... realize we only saved $1m. He reduced his base to $1m - possibly to help facilitate a trade, which is my theory - and that's all that went to New York. The $13m + in bonuses stay here as dead money.

I know some say he never would've started again, but you need backups too and at a $1m difference between keeping and trading him I'd say he'd be worth it as quality depth, just in case.

Of course this is moot now as he would've walked as a FA had he not been traded, but the cap space theory doesn't hold a ton of weight IMO.

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Cap money....yes.

Dollars out the door...no.

too many of you only focus on the Cap Hit when talking about a player being cut. The cap hit is a non-cash book transaction. What the team really saves is the $ going out the door to pay the guy's salary.

[pantherclaw]

Well I'm. Glad this thread is nothing but heart felt wishes/prayers for Beason instead of a stupid debate whether we got screwed or not by the trade....