free agency

Correct

 

With a dead money hit of over 4 million. Even if they make him a post June 1st cut they come out in the hole. Allen isn't getting cut.

 

if you cut him after 1 june you save 4 milion and the dead money is 1,7 this year and the next ,or you like to give him another 6 ml to watch people from the sidelines ?

 

Speaking of Mike Wallace...guess who just showed up on the market? Old money himself. Could he return punts and KO's?

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on...lace-one-year-after-trading-for-him-save-115m

 

A big fat no!

http://football-players.pointafter.....tb.dt.10227#5-Minnesota-Vikings-Mike-Wallace

 

It's good to see the Ravens lose one of their best players in free agency, Kelechi Osemele is going to the Raiders.

 

After June 1 we save 4.3 mil, how is that zero fiscal sense??????? This is a no brainer!!!!!!

 

Ok so now we have Golden, Gay and Foster all signed and it looks like Will Johnson is being looked at. Now with FA starting at 4pm today I am just curious what you all feel is our biggest need. Some positions of need as I see it in no order are DT, and SS, all looking for starters. Also for depth LT, CB, FS/SS, OLB, DE, TE and QB.

I really like this S and DT class in the draft, I also think we can find our future #1 CB in this draft. I think we can get TE depth and maybe a #2 QB project in the draft. So with that said I know we aren't a team that makes a splash today so in the next week of FA I want to focus on a "bargin" LT, OLB and DE. So here are some names who I want to keep my eyes on and see what happens:

Meredith...former Munch player & Massie.....only 27

Raji & Knighton....maybe to teach McCullers and/or a draft pick

Greenway......Real good tackler, long in the tooth but I think a nice fit in a rotation

Smith and Jenkins, both could cost but are #1 types. On the cheaper side.....Powers, Robinson, and maybe Lane.

Who is everyone else keeping and eye on this next week????

 

it depends on grimble and will johnson if a TE is gone after. they may just decide to roll with what we have. --- slimmer chance here.

swing T could come down to signing stingley back or rolling with adams and hubbard as the backups. --- slimmer chance here.

it depends on chickillo at OLB. --- slimmer chance here.

DE has LT walton and C. lyons as backups that they brought in last year. one a draft pick and one more of a priority UDFA. both have a year under their belts now. not sure of the status of clifton geathers either. --- slimmer chance here.

QB we brought in the young guy that was with dallas last year that threw for all the yards in college. landry i believe will be the #2 this year. --- i think there is a chance here but that has yet to be determined.

S and CB both depends on shamarko and cortez and what they decide to do with these two. --- i'd say good chance of replacing these two, but who knows. it wouldn't suprise me if blake wasn't at least thought about as depth.

these players could whittle that list down some as biggest positions to fill leaving options open.

 

Aditi Kikowala (sp?) saying Ravens are interested in K Beachum
Falcons interested in Brandon Boykin

 

Hope we at least resign Mclendon here... and Gradkowski if possible.

Leave the rest...

 

Kinkhabwala

 

Interesting stat:

 

Looking at the QB Free agents here, Josh Johnson is avaliable!
and don't want to be the barer of bad news but. MIKE VICK IS NOT LISTED AS A FREE AGENT!!

 

Vick is like a turkey on Thanksgiving; DONE!!

 

Well I feel better about this but Vick is not listed on the team roster WOO HOO!
http://www.steelers.com/team/roster.html

 

Ok so it sounds like we missed out on Weddle cause we are looking for an LT, fine but now with the Bryant suspension we also need a wr. We have just under 4 mil in cap space and I feel we need a S in FA and the Steelers feel they want a LT. I would like the steelers to sign a couple low level FA but they are going to have to open up some space so re sign DD or extend Timmons.......please!

There isn't much at the FA level at WR but a few names stand out, one in particular. Andre Holmes, he is in the mold of Bryant. Tall, young and fast and showed flashes but not consistency. I feel he could be cheap and it isn't like we are asking him to come in here and be a #1 or 2. This is a low risk high reward type of signing, anyone have any thoughts or opinions on him???

Also if we choose the draft route I watched a kid last night Jaydon Mickens Washinton. He was pretty good and has nice return skills, I only watched the bowl game he played in NFLPA Bowl. He is projected as a late pick/fa sign and I could see him fitting in here, anyone see anything on him as well???

 

Holmes has returned to the Raiders. Which is a good move for them.

As for us, we picked up a 6th round pick from compensatory land; I'd like to look around at that point and pick up a WR. Colbert seems to be able to find them around this area so he's going to have to reach in his ass to find another one for us. We have to proceed from this point like Bryant is never coming back.

 

That's fine my problem is we keep talking about positions and replacements and our answer is always the draft. We are looking for a #1 CB, a Starting S, a starting DT, now a WR. I am all for the draft and I think this draft is loaded at S and DT but we are in win now mode how many rookies contribute? I know times are changing but when we are looking at more then one position to be improved right way by the draft we are not in win now mode, imo. Do you agree Blast?