Will Burns sign an extension before Week 1?

[TheCasillas]

5 minutes ago, mrcompletely11 said:

Letting peppers just walk is kindof comparable. 

thats not what happened at all... Peppers wanted to leave bc Jerry Richardson try to force him to be a vocal leader on the team. Peppers didnt want to be that person. He told us he wasnt going to extend with us the year before his contract expired. We franchise tagged in hopes that two years (last year of contract + tag) would be enough time to change his mind.

 

We did everything we could to keep him from walking.

 

 

note: I have way more on this story, but im not gonna put it on blast. I hung out with Julius at Oak Room when he played for the Bears. He was an open book about it and it wasnt out of malice either that he left.

Edited August 29, 2023 by TheCasillas

[jayboogieman]

11 hours ago, TheCasillas said:

Have the panthers as a franchise ever done anything like that before?

Not exactly the same, but letting Peppers walk, Hiring Marty twice, keeping Marty too long, Keeping Ron too long, Paying over the hill players instead of letting them go, Sean Gilbert, Matt Rhule, signing all of Rhule's college guys, John Fox's lame duck season, and signing Matt Kalil. Those are other boneheaded moves this franchise has made over the years.

[jayboogieman]

57 minutes ago, TheCasillas said:

We did everything we could to keep him from walking.

But as you stated, they knew he wanted to leave. They should have found a trade for him instead of just letting him go.

[WhoKnows]

20 hours ago, Camp Fodder said:

So we turned down 2 draft picks for Burns and we are not making this a priority?

It was actually 3 (two 1sts and pick 36 this year) and another $28-30M a year for say a couple of $15M a year FAs, so potentially 5 solid players. With the Rams seemingly in rebuild mode, those picks may have been pretty high. Heck, I said it before that if the Rams had to pay Burns and didn’t have those 3 picks that McVay and maybe even Donald may have stepped away. That was a last ditch gasp by them to make the playoffs in Stafford’s window. That was a big reason I was for the deal thinking that if McVay leaves there could have been more dominoes to fall potentially making those firsts top 5 type picks.

I’m a fan of Burns but I’d take those 3 picks and the money for two top FAs every time. Build around Young as the primary objective.

It’s water under the bridge anyway so let’s get a deal done already so his price doesn’t keep moving up.

Edited August 29, 2023 by WhoKnows

[mrcompletely11]

37 minutes ago, WhoKnows said:

It was actually 3 (two 1sts and pick 36 this year) and another $28-30M a year for say a couple of $15M a year FAs, so potentially 5 solid players. With the Rams seemingly in rebuild mode, those picks may have been pretty high. Heck, I said it before that if the Rams had to pay Burns and didn’t have those 3 picks that McVay and maybe even Donald may have stepped away. That was a last ditch gasp by them to make the playoffs in Stafford’s window. That was a big reason I was for the deal thinking that if McVay leaves there could have been more dominoes to fall potentially making those firsts top 5 type picks.

I’m a fan of Burns but I’d take those 3 picks and the money for two top FAs every time. Build around Young as the primary objective.

It’s water under the bridge anyway so let’s get a deal done already so his price doesn’t keep moving up.

rams have 50% of their roster is rookies

Fitt was a fuging moron to not smell Mcvays desperation

[carpanfan96]

Pretty sure they know what burns agent wants to get. He's going to get it and it's going to hurt some people in this thread.

[WhoKnows]

3 hours ago, carpanfan96 said:

Pretty sure they know what burns agent wants to get. He's going to get it and it's going to hurt some people in this thread.

Oh, he’ll get it. Same way Tunsil was able to get top T money with no problem. You can’t trade that much or not trade for that much and then try to get some sort of discount. I would fire my GM immediately if he turned down that package only to have the guy leave for way less or holdout because he won’t play on a tag.