Comp Pick - Norwell

[Tepper's Chest Hair]

To deter slightly from ForniGate, and on to something we probably knew about and expected.

[TheSpecialJuan]

excellent 

[Dex]

As expected. Good poo.

[countryboi]

ironically he has been pretty bad with the Jags, the grass is not always greener.

[Seoul_Panther]

15 minutes ago, countryboi said:

ironically he has been pretty bad with the Jags, the grass is not always greener.

Truth. He improved, but early season his pff grade was in the low fifties. 

[Snake]

20 minutes ago, countryboi said:

ironically he has been pretty bad with the Jags, the grass is not always greener.

The money is though 

[Ricky Spanish]

36 minutes ago, countryboi said:

ironically he has been pretty bad with the Jags, the grass is not always greener.

To be fair, literally everyone was bad on their offense this past year.

[Unbreakable Split Glass]

How the hell the Rams get two back to back 3rds? 

[RumHam]

need to explain how rams and patriots got this? Was one for Cooks?

[Tepper's Chest Hair]

36 minutes ago, Unbreakable Split Glass said:

How the hell the Rams get two back to back 3rds? 

 

5 minutes ago, RumHam said:

need to explain how rams and patriots got this? Was one for Cooks?

Rams - Watkins, T. Johnson

Patriots - Solder, Butler

[RumHam]

43 minutes ago, Tepper's Chest Hair said:

 

Rams - Watkins, T. Johnson

Patriots - Solder, Butler

both players were garbage this year, what a joke.

[Unbreakable Split Glass]

6 hours ago, Tepper's Chest Hair said:

 

Rams - Watkins, T. Johnson

Patriots - Solder, Butler

But they got Suh

[Lumps]

8 hours ago, countryboi said:

ironically he has been pretty bad with the Jags, the grass is not always greener.

Actually he’s played quite well, if you actually pay attention and also consider what kind of offense he has to worth with, 90% trash.

I believe he’s also been playing injured.

Worth his contract? Maybe not. But to say we dodged a bullet by not spending on him in order to pay Matt Kalil even more money I mean...joke is ultimately on the Panthers.

[AU-panther]

20 hours ago, stbugs said:

Yep, some sites had us getting 99 (over Watkins) but it’s as expected. It means our 4th is 116. Not bad, 7 3rd round comps is a lot. As usual NE is good at this.

So for the pleasure of Dontarie Poe we lost a 3rd or 4th for Star and gave Atlanta a 4th and spent a lot of money as well.

Heck, we didn’t get a 6th for Dickson either because of other FAs who didn’t even play. I’m just glad we didn’t burn the 3rd for Norwell. We are going to need it. 

So many of the average fans around here look at these free agent deals in a vacuum and never understand the total cost of some of these deals.

I'm guessing everyone of them would happily trade Poe for a third now.

It takes a bit of discipline for the teams.  The less UFAs you sign the more comp picks you tend to get.  The more picks you get the less free agents you should need in theory at least.  I think it is no surprise that some of the teams that historically receive the most comp picks, Patriots and Ravens have been some of the most stable and successful over the last 10-15 years.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you should never go after free agents, just be smart about it.

I think teams would be better off by staggering it.  For example if you (in simplest terms) lose 2 and gain 2 you receive no comp picks.  If you do that over 4 years you will have received none over that four years.  If you were to do 3G-1L, 1G-3L, 3G-1L, 1G-3L you would have singed the same number of free agents over that 4 years but you would also have 4 comp picks to show for it.

Also waiting for the in the summer to sign guys that are cut can be wise.  They don't count towards the comp pick formula and also they tend to be a lot cheaper at that point.  Could we have signed someone later do give the same production as Poe?