Joe Thomas from Cleveland or Luke Joeckel from Jacksonville. Bear with me for a second...we have to admit that the Beatty signing has a lot of questions. Some of mine are is he in football shape? Was this a depth signing or is some shifting going to be done on the offensive line? To me, Beatty was cheap and we know him but I'm not sure he is that much of an upgrade unless they plan to move Flowers to RT. Beatty was always hurt and does not have what is the required toughness to play full time.
Cleveland is in a major rebuild and getting rid of a lot of older players. They crave draft picks...why not give them a no. 1 for Thomas? We would have a huge upgrade at LT and Flowers could move to RT where many think he would be a perennial all pro. Then there is Joeckel who is in the final year of his deal with Jacksonville and has been moved inside to guard. We could still move Flowers over to RT.
Are we all in, here, or what is this Beatty signing really about because, quite frankly, I think it is just for depth.
Over to you...blast away
Same here
As for Joeckel, Jacksonville declined to pick up the 5th year option for him. They've moved him to guard and he was thrown around like a rag doll in Sunday's exhibition. Hell, the guy who beat him out at tackle made his pre-season debut Sunday after coming back from knee surgery last year.
As for trading a 1st, 2nd or 3rd rd pick for anyone, only if it puts them in the Super bowl or for that extra special player. Bill Parcells gave up a 1st for Curtis Martin when he was with the Jets. That worked. But most don't. The Giants traded many high picks in the early 60's for established star players that put their very good team in the championship game 3 years in a row. But come the 4th year, they were done and the team dropped to last place.
"on the last year of his contract"
It doesn't work like that. An NFL player can very rarely just plop onto the field with a new team and produce. Every team runs complex schemes. In MLB it's- hey go hit and play right field like you have been doing since you were 13.
In essence, your idea gets a D-.
"on the last year of his contract"
It doesn't work like that. An NFL player can very rarely just plop onto the field with a new team and produce. Every team runs complex schemes. In MLB it's- hey go hit and play right field like you have been doing since you were 13.
In essence, your idea gets a D-.
I think we should throw them a 5th..They're stupid enough to bite..😜
Not protect your 35 year old franchise QB sounds pragmatic to you?
"on the last year of his contract"
It doesn't work like that. An NFL player can very rarely just plop onto the field with a new team and produce. Every team runs complex schemes. In MLB it's- hey go hit and play right field like you have been doing since you were 13.
In essence, your idea gets a D-.
Beatty makes sense cause he knows the offensive system from 2014 and 2015 study at least. It is a shame we could not sign him even 2 weeks earlier so he got some camp in and a chance to work with Solari.
I figure it will be about between week 3 to even 6 before we see Beatty in any capacity. I just think it will take time for him to re-learn the offense and its new wrinkles plus get into "game shape".
But I guess there were no options available, price was too high, or they just didn't care. We gonna roll with this squad, maybe we'll grab someone off of waivers or grab a vet post-week 1 when I think salaries are no longer guaranteed.
I like our changes week 1 against the Romo-less and defense-less Cowboys. We invested a chunk of change and a chunk of weight on the defensive line this off season which hopefully will either neutralize or at least slow down that Dallas offensive line.
2) I agree that signing Beatty to play RT is not ideal and that sliding Flowers over there for a year or two could help him find his groove instead of just being mediocre at LT. It would improve two positions on the line and give is more depth.
3) Beatty is much better than Newslouch on every day of the week thAT ends in "y"