New York Giants defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul is the NFC East comeback player of the year as voted on by the four reporters covering the division for ESPN.com. espn - ( New Window )
hosts on the WFAN (NY sports radio) saying that they think JPP will end up in Dallas?! Do these guys even know what Dallas's cap situation is like? Boomer, Carton and Christie all think he could end up in Dallas. How could Dallas afford him? I think we'll offer a fair deal to him ,but someone is probably going to outbid us. Anyway, I thought Carton was a buffoon, but Christie takes the cake!
Trading Romo and cutting Witten get them to 6.3 under the cap.
Sean Lee and Doug Free have big cap numbers but I can't see them dumping them.
That being said, they will have 6.3 to sign rookies, with Brandon Carr, Barry Church, Terrell Mcclain, Moe Claiborne, Ronald Leary, and Gavin Escobar as free agents. These players were all starters with Escobar being a key contributor.
I doubt they could find a way to sign JPP without also dumping Sean Lee, Doug Free, and letting the above players all walk.
Trading Romo creates 19.6 in dead money. Free and Witten are both in the last years of their deal. I suppose they could both get extended, salary lowered this year, escalating next year when that Romo dead money clears up.
walk for nothing. He's an asset to the Giants and they are smart business men. I believe they will make him a fair offer and if he declines, they will tag him. They can still control his fate and I believe they will. I see no scenario in which they just let one of the better DE's who is in his prime walk when they are so far under the cap.
They could have just retained VErnon who is younger and safer than JPP. Miami DL isn't bad at all as is. Maybe JPP goes to Jax with Coughlin. Closer to home, they are 1 billion under the cap..
Gun to my head I think JPP stays here with the Giants. 25-30 mil in guarantees.
RE: The Giants aren't going to let a top DE in his prime
walk for nothing. He's an asset to the Giants and they are smart business men. I believe they will make him a fair offer and if he declines, they will tag him. They can still control his fate and I believe they will. I see no scenario in which they just let one of the better DE's who is in his prime walk when they are so far under the cap.
I mostly agree. At worst we'd be wise to franchise him while looking to deal him. Now, if after doing so we couldn't work out a trade and needed the cap space to sign some other FAs, we might eventually need to lift the franchise tag and lose him for nothing.
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Trading Romo and cutting Witten get them to 6.3 under the cap.
Sean Lee and Doug Free have big cap numbers but I can't see them dumping them.
That being said, they will have 6.3 to sign rookies, with Brandon Carr, Barry Church, Terrell Mcclain, Moe Claiborne, Ronald Leary, and Gavin Escobar as free agents. These players were all starters with Escobar being a key contributor.
I doubt they could find a way to sign JPP without also dumping Sean Lee, Doug Free, and letting the above players all walk.
The Texans didn't even meet with Osweiler before handing him that contract.
Jets gave Fitzpatrick 12 mil to play 1 year with all his known issues.
Skins gave Cousins 19 mil franchise tag
This year:
Rumor is Pats are asking for a 1st and 3rd for Jimmy G. If they don't get that they're happy to hold onto him
Cousins is looking for a long term deal worth 25 mil plus
And of course, you'll have your Hoyers, Fitzpatricks, etc.
Teams are so QB starved I can see several willing to gamble on Romo with the other options being limited.
They could have just retained VErnon who is younger and safer than JPP. Miami DL isn't bad at all as is. Maybe JPP goes to Jax with Coughlin. Closer to home, they are 1 billion under the cap..
Gun to my head I think JPP stays here with the Giants. 25-30 mil in guarantees.
I mostly agree. At worst we'd be wise to franchise him while looking to deal him. Now, if after doing so we couldn't work out a trade and needed the cap space to sign some other FAs, we might eventually need to lift the franchise tag and lose him for nothing.