Or Bill looked in the fridge and saw that after years of crap drafts, it was time to buy some groceries. .The amount of money that they are spending makes me think that the cap is going way up with the new TV deal and this is BB's last hurrah or a combination of both.
That's OK, I went from six to midnight in that same time. I expect I may be calling a doctor in another few hours.4+ went from 0 votes about an hour ago to 3 votes now. Cheaters
View: https://twitter.com/JFowlerESPN/status/1371568465446907911?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1371568465446907911%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=Can somebody wake BB up? It's been like 20 minutes since we signed someone.
Only two so far by the $10m AAV standard (Judon and Smith). He’s making a splash, but he’s doing it by paying a little more to secure the mid-market guys he covets. I like it.Will Belichick go for some high-priced free agents the next few weeks or will he only go bargain-hunting due to the cap constraints of other teams?
Obviously this is a vague boundary but let's say 10 million average annual value or more, or something above the spotrac free agent predictor.
I'm voting 1 because I think he will pay for a TE (or maybe WR)
Hightower re-structured so that frees some up too.So, prior to the signings, Miguel had them at $65m under the cap.
Bourne - 7.5m
Agholor - 11m (reportedly)
Judon - 14m
Godcheaux - 8m
Jonnu - 12.5m
Mills - 6m
Trent Brown - 11m
So, that's about $70m if we just take the contracts and look at them via yearly figure. Obviously the numbers will be smaller hits against the cap. But even if they trim them up significantly, I'd say that the team is done after today. They need room for draft picks and resigns. Hopefully I'm wrong, but it seems like BB threw out a lot of guaranteed money in some of the deals we have heard about. I'd think these moves may spell the end of both Andrews and JCJ.
Great call!!I voted two. Would love to see BB invest in at least two of these three: WR Curtis Samuel, TE Jonnu Smith, DL Dalvin Tomlinson...and a cheaper FA in ex-Jet DL Henry Anderson.
Pricey you would think? but I wouldnt be surprised if after the dust settles they add another mid range guy. I'm still not convinced they may not give Sanders a look at WRI voted for 2 and couldn't be happier for being so wrong.
Plus, this has to be it for pricey signings, right? RIGHT?
he did not.Hightower re-structured so that frees some up too.
Yes. Belichick has already reverted back to his old ways. Penny-pincher!Am I the only one who's discouraged that they haven't agreed to terms with any in the past three hours?
AgholorTechnically isn’t it only 3 so far? Judon Henry and jonnu are the only ones over the 10 million threshold
Yes, combined with the covid brakes being applied to the cap this year, he's had the ability to make it rain without being foolish.(I posted this in the QB options thread, but it probably fits better here)
I think this has been bit of an under-reported element of this spending spree. BB likely knew that, other than Thuney, there weren't many outgoing FA's likely to sign big-money deals, so the comp pick haul was likely starting at a low bar anyway. Plus, in that same vein, it makes more sense to put all your own big-money FA signings into one offseason to mitigate their effect on future comp picks. (I seem to recall MLB went thru this a few years back, where the system incentivized teams to sign multiple Tier One guys in a single year, rather than going after one every year.)
Furthermore, I bet BB/Kraft is banking on the rumors that with upcoming new TV deals, the cal will skyrocket again in couple years, so it will make sense to back-load a lot of these deals now.
Well I can say I nailed this prediction. One of the few that actually come out right.I vote 0, but I don't consider the TE's top of the market guys. The numbers that mean the most to me is the total guarantees and the money in Year 1. If the Pats are shrewd, they can use the bonus money to lower the Year 1 cap hits on guys and maximize the cap space they have as much as possible. Therefore, I don't envision the Pats to sign a guy that costs $10 million or more on the 2021 cap.