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  • Steve
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    • Jun 2013
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    #37
    If Perryman can get a bigger deal from another team with fewer incentives, or just more bonus, he is probably gone. His injury history is the kind of thing desperate teams with some cap space can rationalize their way through. They will take some risk because of how much better our D played when he came back from injury last year. If he does, he is probably gone. Other teams may offer more incentives, and since the Chargers typically don't do as much of that incentive stuff, that would give another path for him to leave.

    Where the Chargers are at as a team, even if they do resign him, they need to draft a player or two who can push him. Any position that does not have an established, productive starter needs to. It's not personal, it's what is best for the team. The number one quality of any player has to be availability, particularly when he is the guy who calls the defensive signals.

    Getting a LB is always a tradeoff. The positions is a series of tradeoffs. Fans want the do it all kind of players, and they just hardly exist. We just need to see who is available in FA, or the draft (which means on draft day(s)), and make the best picks. The "best" pick is going to be someone who has some kind of exceptional quality. What that quality will just depend on what TT and the scouts think maximizes the team's ability.

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    • Steve
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      #38
      I would guess Earl Thomas is a late signing as a FA. I don't think he is going to be happy with the contract offers he is going to get. I still think that Earl thinks he is worth $10+ mill a season, and after last season's S scramble and Earl's injury, I don't think he is going to see anywhere near that. Problem is, unless Earl is willing to accept that, he will probably sit a while. That is what happened to S last year. His one advantage is that he is a pure FS, as opposed to a SS, which are much more common.

      KJ Wright also had a bad year due to injury. He has got the jack of all trades, master of none thing going for him. Typically, in years where teams have big cap space, once the bad bad teams overspend to get FA talent and win FA, they will try to add on, and overpay for guys like Wright, who will be the top paid LB. Then they will realize next season, they overpaid badly, and cut him, even if he was fairly decent, because teams prefer to focus salary cap on impact plays, which LB just don't make many of.

      We really don't have the cap space to be chasing high priced guys like Thomas and Wright. We have less than $20 mill available for FA (remember we need $6 mill for our rookies). We can free up some more, but I don't think it is going to help unless THomas and Wright really want to take a discount to play for Gus.

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      • La Costa Boy
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        #39
        What is the savings if we cut Benjamin and Addae? 12 - 14 million to the cap?

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        • CTrout
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          #40
          Originally posted by La Costa Boy View Post
          What is the savings if we cut Benjamin and Addae? 12 - 14 million to the cap?
          About 10.2

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          • La Costa Boy
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            #41
            Originally posted by CTrout View Post

            About 10.2
            So those two would put us around 30 for the FA bank? DO IT TOM!!!!!

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