All Five Of The Browns RFA Sign
(UPDATE) According to MKC, all five of the Browns RFA have signed their tenders.
This doesn't mean that they will show up in camp, not that anyone has threatened that yet, but it does mean that they are all Cleveland Browns.
Good things.
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He’ll be at Training Camp. He’s gonna need to be on the field if he expects to get them dollas next year. I would be surprised if any body doesn’t sign by midnight. They’re gonna need all the money they can get with the dreaded lockout looming over the NFL.
But then again they could go play in the UFL next year! Lol.
by BrutalMovement on Jun 14, 2010 3:46 PM EDT up reply actions
Weird and ironic that tomorrow is the day their tender offers would be reduced by about a million dollars. Didn’t see this coming.
by Roger Dorn on Jun 14, 2010 7:29 PM EDT reply actions 4 recs
Good to hear, but I wasn’t that worried.
A little off subject, but you know it’s a slow sports news day when it’s “BREAKING” news that Texas is staying in the Big 12. (via Yahoo! Sports front page)
Actually, this is huge news. I don’t know how closely you’ve followed conference realignment, but Texas + their followers were widely accepted to be joining the Pac Ten, which has now been screwed over by the Big 12 lite staying put.
Art Modell gives me a hard one
What exactly are you referring to as being screwed over again?
I’ve been following the movements as much as I can, and I still don’t see Texas staying in the Big 12 as huge news.
Dude, how is one of the largest colleges, both financially and in popularity, not transferring conferences that says, slow news day? Seriously?
"Spartans never die Jorge. They're just missing in action."
by SpecialBrownie on Jun 14, 2010 9:33 PM EDT up reply actions
When the biggest sports story of the day is something that happens every single day (yes, everyday there is a large college, often more than 1, not transferring conferences), I’d call that a slow news day in sports.
But that is just my opinion.
I’d call hearing about any extremely large D1 school definitely stating that’s it’s moving or not is huge news personally. It’s economical to the state, the sport, television, it affects competitiveness and school academic and acceptance rates, also school funds toward the students who go there!
This crap is huge dude.
"Spartans never die Jorge. They're just missing in action."
by SpecialBrownie on Jun 14, 2010 9:43 PM EDT up reply actions
maybe you missed the part where people have been assuming for weeks that texas was going to move. this is big news because it was pretty unexpected.
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by notthatnoise on Jun 14, 2010 9:48 PM EDT up reply actions
it was pretty unexpected.
This here must be where the difference lies. While I did hear a lot of talk on the rumors about Texas possibly leaving for quite some time now, I never expected it to happen. And I wasn’t the least bit surprised to hear that they would be staying put.
What would have been shocking to me, is if they chose to join any other conference.
It’s still news they never moved.
The consensus was that they would move, it’s pretty shocking they didn’t and stayed in the now, deteriorating Big 12 – ish.
"Spartans never die Jorge. They're just missing in action."
by SpecialBrownie on Jun 14, 2010 10:10 PM EDT up reply actions
Agreed. The possibility of them moving to the Pac10 was in itself huge news because of the implications. For one, they would have taken a good chunk of their conference with them to the Pac10. The Big12 would have been reduced to not much better than a mid-major conference. Secondly, think of the impact that adding Texas and Oklahoma would have had on the Pac10. I’m sure most of us hate USC and are pleased with the recent disciplinary actions against the university which effectively take them out of the running for the national title the next two years. Combine that with the head coaching change and the possiblity of playing Texas and Oklahoma every year. USC would have a very difficult time contending for a national title every year. It would have been the same for Texas.
I’m excited to get Nebraska into the BigTen. It raises the level of competition and respectability. After all, the conference hasn’t had a good record in bowl games lately. Especially the Buckeyes in the title games. Better competition will make them better prepared to win the title game, and a conference championship game in December would also mean less time off between the regular season and the bowl game. Can’t wait for 2011!
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I don’t know why it would have been so shocking that they went to the Pac-10; it almost happened, and many people expected it to happen last weekend. I don’t see how you can say that Texas staying in the Big 12 isn’t big news when there was so much speculation about what they were doing (and many other teams’ future hinged on their decision). That’s like saying LeBron announcing that he’s resigning with Cleveland isn’t big news because he’s played in Cleveland the past seven years, and every day a star player doesn’t change teams. With so much speculation on what he’s doing this summer, him announcing that he is staying in Cleveland would be big news just like Texas announcing that they’re staying in the Big 12. A person or team doesn’t have to change locations for something to be newsworthy.
by Buckeye Brad on Jun 17, 2010 5:04 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
perfect analogy.
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by notthatnoise on Jun 17, 2010 7:14 PM EDT up reply actions
The Big12 sounds like they are willing to let UT do whatever they want.
No wonder Nebraska wanted out.
by Bernie19Kosar on Jun 14, 2010 11:28 PM EDT up reply actions
I can see why everyone there hates UT.
They are going to make a bajillion dollars there.
by Bernie19Kosar on Jun 16, 2010 12:43 AM EDT up reply actions
I was all ready to blame Notre Dame for everything too if the Big 12 fell apart. A simple yes from ND to the big 10 probably prevents anything else from happening.
I keep hearing that they really want Rutgers.
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I think Rutgers and Notre Dame join the conference within the next year and a half. The Big Ten would not have taken Nebraska if they weren’t expanding media markets elsewhere. As it is, each team pulls roughly $22 million per from television revenue, and adding Nebraska to the conference actually decreases each teams net profit from the conference’s television deal. Any media type decreeing ‘’Conference Expansion Over’’ just isn’t paying close enough attention. Nebraska was a strategic grab for the Big Ten; they provide the football cache that a Rutgers lacks. But Rutgers and Notre Dame offer media markets, and in the case of Notre Dame, country-wide acceptance of the Big Ten Network.
Art Modell gives me a hard one
The Pac Ten had already taken Colorado, a debt-ridden athletic program with questionable TV value, with an understanding that Texas + four other schools would join them in the Pac Ten. The Pac Ten is now stuck with Colorado, and will likely move to bring Utah into the conference as the twelfth member, so they can have a conference championship game.
The Pac Ten’s television rights are going to be negotiated in the upcoming year, and Texas was viewed as the prize that would guarantee television monies on par with the Big Ten’s network-driven income. Without Texas, and with two more teams to split it with, the Pac Ten will likely have less money per team, with an equal distribution model, than they had before the new deal. This will depend largely on the negotiating prowess of conference commissioner Larry Scott, of course.
Art Modell gives me a hard one
He will get traded and then offered an even lower contract. The dude fakes injuries, whines, comes on in half a season, gets an average number of sacks an average LB would in half a season, but seems amazing because an average pass rusher is non existent in Cleveland.
Voila, he wants paid like Michael Strahan.
"Spartans never die Jorge. They're just missing in action."
by SpecialBrownie on Jun 14, 2010 10:55 PM EDT up reply actions
He doesn’t really want a trade, that’s just Rosenhaus. He wants a long-term deal and a signing bonus before the lockout.
"Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital." - Aaron Levenstein
I am pretty sure Roth ain’t gonna get a long term deal before the CBA is resolved or even after it. H&H are a lil too smart fer dat. Nice try though he should be happy with 1.8 he is getting on half a seasons work.
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Yeah but at least mine are shiny!
Roth was very, very good for us at a position where we still need players, despite the other 12 LBs we have on the roster. If he were to continue that trend and not the one where he whines about contracts, I could see him getting paid before the CBA.
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“I’m setting the bar really high for myself,” he said. “I don’t think I’ve even come close to what I’m capable of yet.”
This killed me from that article. Ok, so you haven’t played close to what your capable of but you want paid? Really? C’mon, prove what your capable of this year and then get paid.
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For the love of Joe Thomas.....
by North Coast Flea on Jun 15, 2010 10:46 AM EDT up reply actions
They have to earn better deals. Most of these guys have shown signs of being valuable to this team, but they need to sustain that level of play for more than half a season before they can expect a bigger salary. I do believe Vickers has proven his worth and deserves more though.
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