mikeak
Well-known member
OK I get the advantage with 1 year contracts
1) You can get a guy that wants to prove something so you get him in a "contract year" and he plays great
2) If they aren't good you can "dump" them and not have a big negative impact
and yes if they are good we can get comp picks
However what I am not seeing discussed at all is the big negative
1) If they succeed you will pay more next year for their services than you would have for next year right now.....
2) If they succeed - you are left with a hole because you can't afford to keep them or a hole because you just spent a ton of money
3) Consistency - if you keep signing guys to a 1 year contract you keep changing out a bunch of players and you lack consistency and won't have as tight of a locker room
Free Agency
So this was a good year in regards to not having many existing player contracts expiring on our team
Next year..... not so much. We have 37!!!!! players that will be in one sort of Free Agency (16 of those are UFA)
http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/free-agents/ ... -seahawks/
So while we will have lots of cap room next year we will either have to load up on Free Agent signings next year (EXPENSIVE) or build a team with a bunch of rookies......
So in "my perfect world" - we have one or two FA guys signed to 1 year contracts, but we would have had a couple more signed to three year contracts. We really only ended up with Thorpe being a 2 year contract
I get that the FA market dictates a lot of this, but we better hit it out of the park this draft or this team will be on thin ice next year.......
Thoughts?
1) You can get a guy that wants to prove something so you get him in a "contract year" and he plays great
2) If they aren't good you can "dump" them and not have a big negative impact
and yes if they are good we can get comp picks
However what I am not seeing discussed at all is the big negative
1) If they succeed you will pay more next year for their services than you would have for next year right now.....
2) If they succeed - you are left with a hole because you can't afford to keep them or a hole because you just spent a ton of money
3) Consistency - if you keep signing guys to a 1 year contract you keep changing out a bunch of players and you lack consistency and won't have as tight of a locker room
Free Agency
So this was a good year in regards to not having many existing player contracts expiring on our team
Next year..... not so much. We have 37!!!!! players that will be in one sort of Free Agency (16 of those are UFA)
http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/free-agents/ ... -seahawks/
So while we will have lots of cap room next year we will either have to load up on Free Agent signings next year (EXPENSIVE) or build a team with a bunch of rookies......
So in "my perfect world" - we have one or two FA guys signed to 1 year contracts, but we would have had a couple more signed to three year contracts. We really only ended up with Thorpe being a 2 year contract
I get that the FA market dictates a lot of this, but we better hit it out of the park this draft or this team will be on thin ice next year.......
Thoughts?