WARNING: If you do not like rumors or rumor-mongering, please leave this thread immediately for your own mental health. Please don't shoot the messenger. The following was provided to me by a legitimate source (not one of the previous Edwards asshats on this site):
"The talks are still on. The Browns are being cheap right now and have no interest in re-signing Edwards to a big deal. They are willing to take low compensation. They are asking for a conditional next year (high as a 3) and Danny Ware and Mario Manningham (who Mangini wanted badly for the Jets). They were asking for these same two players before the draft, but the feeling is they can get NY to bite now that they got Nicks and Brown in the draft."
"(I do not) know the status of the Giants response to this offer."
David Tyree, according to the player salaries page, is the highest paid WR on the roster right now.
If its all the same, then I agree with you, but I making a move now seems premature.
The Giants’ kickoff team held opponents to a 22.5-yard average on kickoff returns, the NFL’s 12th-best figure. Opposing teams did begin their possessions after a kickoff at the 30-yard line on average, which can definitely be improved upon.
Conversely, Tyree's deal is up in 2011 and he seems to me the type of guy that would play specials for the rest of his career. There's a real value in that kind of guy. Of course, this is all contingent on Tyree being healthy.
That's the objective part of me. The subjective part of me says that Tyree deserves to be on the team. I feel like we owe him that. I know that's not rational and not how a team should be run, but I feel like we owe him that.
If we can come to terms with BE on an incentive-laden contract that maxes out in the $6-7M range, I'm onboard. Otherwise, I go with what we've got in-house.
The NFC is winnable even with the Giants young Wr's. The upgrade on D along with the fact that the NFC is pretty pathetic is reason enough to retain picks and young talent to stay at this level for the next 5 years as I don't see the other teams leap frogging.
I'm more concerned with RB as Jacobs simply will not enter the playoffs as strong as he enters week 1 and Bradshaw may very well have shown his best stuff in 07.
Say Tyree is healthy, which is good.
But also say Moss looks really good fielding punts
And say Wright or Woodson or some UDFA or second year CB looks like a stud at gunner..
And say Moss just looks a little better at WR than Tyree, just due to his speed and wiggle..
Sorry, but Tyree makes more than all of them, and though he's been a money player for the team, it would be time to cut him.
I thought they did him a solid last year by keeping him on the roster for as long as they did, then IR'ing him, instead of just reaching an injury settlement.
Then we can trade ELi for picks and trade the picks to NE for Moss and Welker and Seymour. And Brady already has them broken in so Gillbride can simplify the passing trees. Seymour lets us play the 2-9 for sure and can come in for goal and short yardage as a 5th TE. Whats good about this is that we can weaken the Pats while "guaranteeing" the SB
Since we are built to win right now.
Do it Jerry!
When we switch back and forth with the 2-9 it will confuse the Eagles no matter how many WR they draft
Did someone also say Moss might look good returning punts? wow again.........
(((And now, back to the thread.)))
I just think that, if he's healthy, we're a better team with his contributions than we are with Moss's. And I'm a Moss guy.
The guy is a gamer, man. In December if we've got injuries at WR I trust him to show up on short notice.
Guy is a gamer.
JR won't upset the salary strucure. He somewhat did that with Canty...won't do it with Edwards.
I think Braylon's attitude issues are overblown. Last year, the Browns season was circling the bowl, the coaches were lame ducks, and the fans were blaming him as the most visible star on the team not on IR. That's miles away from the situation he'd be in on the Giants. Put him on a stable, successful team with respected coaches and veterans, and he'll behave a lot better.
That said, cost is the big reason this probably won't happen. #1 WRs get huge contracts because they're generally not available at any price unless they're sociopaths or on the downside of their career. As teams have gotten better at managing the cap, the more valuable positions have disappeared from the FA market. QB, DE, and OT, primarily, but now CB and WR have also become really scarce. (C, S, and G are next.) Reese wouldn't be in this conversation at all if he wasn't willing to something close to the going rate for young WRs with star potential. (I'm thinking of the Roy W. contract.) If he can work enough team-protection provisions in there, as he did with Plaxico, I'd be on board.
some of you will be happy, others sad...that's the only hint I'm going to give you.
Eric, if it wasn't obvious I was joking, you're off your game.
Would he still be a gamer?