NFL's biggest rip offs - Jake and Pep are #1

[Mesmer]

Haynesworth's 2009 salary is $6 million base pay with a $5 million signing bonus. That's $5 million less than Peppers.

Yeah, but after this abomination of a season we can say "later" if we so choose and we owe him nothing more. That's 16.7 off the books.

If the Redskins don't like Haynesworth they are pretty much fonked.

[Chaos]

probably because the article is about underachieving players who signed contracts this offseason and not about general managers

I hear ya - was just being sarcastic.

[Tank]

Wow what a piece. OK I will play along. Where is the Oakland QB? No way a top 10 list can be assembled without him being at the top of it in my opinion. Heck i can't even think of his name so that kinda proves my point.

[Guest]

funny how the article mentions the contracts will hurt the team for years to come. really? peppers contract ends this year and delhomme's really isn't that bad, especially going into an uncapped year.

also not having signed delhomme wouldn't have magically made a capable NFL QB appear from thin air. we don't have a draft pick and even before we signed delhomme didn't have the cap space for a top 10 QB

Damn man it seems like you get it. I mean really get it. Everyone acts like they knew that Jake would emplode and would have another Ari type game which even though he did you cant predict that that will happen. And who was left to sign? Vick, Even though I would have took him cause I like football more than dogs nobody else wanted him and wasn't a lot of options left. So in hindsight it was stupid but what isn't after it goes wrong?

Jake didn't have to be signed to an extension. He was already under contract through the end of this season. We didn't need to sign Vick or any other QB. The claim of cap-savings of 3MM is BS. If Hurney is such a genius they could have saved that $ somewhere else. Smart man would have evaluated Jake this season before offering an extension. I doubt he would have been a hot item on the open market and if he did well we could have signed him after the season, potentially upcapped like you say. Hurney and Fox fugged up big time.

[frash.exe]

can't call pep a rip-off when he didn't even want to be here

[Zod]

can't call pep a rip-off when he didn't even want to be here

Really good point.