DeSean Jackson Released

boozeman said:

Heath LOL

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Show some respect. The dude was 1st team all conference in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

pdom said:

What happened to the resilient, I-don't-give-flying-f, billboard-down-your-throat-on-a-radio-show Iamtdg that I know and love? Newt's tummy is jealous of how soft you are now.

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Maybe Jerry won.

They figured out a way to make that little shit even more annoying, they put him in a Redskins jersey.

1bigfan13 said:

Show some respect. The dude was 1st team all conference in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

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Is this true?

dallen said:

Is this true?

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Yep, sure is.

Which is why you guys shouldn't jump off the Heath bandwagon just yet.

1bigfan13 said:

Show some respect. The dude was 1st team all conference in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

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Couple that with Matt Johnson's 2X All-Big Sky nods, and we have the makings of a safety tandem that the league has never seen.

Texas Ace said:

Couple that with Matt Johnson's 2X All-Big Sky nods, and we have the makings of a safety tandem that the league has never seen.

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That's what I'm saying. The pedigree is there. We just need to catch some breaks, that's all.

FWIW, it COULD pan out at safety for us.

The chances are just very low.... like 10%.

mschmidt64 said:

FWIW, it COULD pan out at safety for us.

The chances are just very low.... like 10%.

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This may be one of the few times you are more optimistic about the Cowboys talent then I am. Of course I'm guessing it is because you think that little about DBs.

Cowboysrock55 said:

This may be one of the few times you are more optimistic about the Cowboys talent then I am. Of course I'm guessing it is because you think that little about DBs.

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I don't think we should write off Wilcox yet, especially. He showed more than a small school guy like AOA ever did.

mschmidt64 said:

I don't think we should write off Wilcox yet, especially. He showed more than a small school guy like AOA ever did.

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I don't want to write him off either but I can't believe that he was put behind Heath who looked like he doesn't even belong in the CFL.

Heath is, for some reason, getting the Lynn Scott treatment. No one can tell why the coaching staff doesn't purge him.

mschmidt64 said:

Heath is, for some reason, getting the Lynn Scott treatment. No one can tell why the coaching staff doesn't purge him.

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I mean he was horrific. It was literally like playing defense with 10 guys. He couldn't play the ball in the air. He couldn't tackle. He took piss poor angles against the run. He took piss poor angles against the pass.

I struggle to find a single positive quality about the guy. Maybe he did a really good job of making sure players were lined up correctly. I have no idea.

Cowboysrock55 said:

I mean he was horrific. It was literally like playing defense with 10 guys. He couldn't play the ball in the air. He couldn't tackle. He took piss poor angles against the run. He took piss poor angles against the pass.

I struggle to find a single positive quality about the guy. Maybe he did a really good job of making sure players were lined up correctly. I have no idea.

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He's just a regular ol' white guy keeping the seat warm for Matt Johnson's return.

And what a glorious homecoming it will be!

Cowboysrock55 said:

I mean he was horrific. It was literally like playing defense with 10 guys. He couldn't play the ball in the air. He couldn't tackle. He took piss poor angles against the run. He took piss poor angles against the pass.

I struggle to find a single positive quality about the guy. Maybe he did a really good job of making sure players were lined up correctly. I have no idea.

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He did luck into a fumble recovery vs the giants so there's that

The full DeSean Jackson contract details

Posted by Mike Florio on April 2, 2014, 3:03 PM EDT

DeSean Jackson didn’t get traded because no one wanted to pay him $10.5 million in 2014. The Redskins ultimately chose to pay him 76 percent of that.

Per a source with knowledge of the contract, Jackson will make $8 million in 2014. The total comes from a $5 million signing bonus, a fully-guaranteed base salary of $1 million, a fully-guaranteed $500,000 workout bonus, and a $1.5 million 53-man per-game roster bonus that is fully guaranteed.

For 2015, Jackson gets a fully-guaranteed $3.75 million base salary, a fully-guaranteed $500,000 workout bonus, and a fully-guaranteed $3.75 million 53-man roster bonus.

That’s $16 million fully guaranteed upon signing, earned over two years.

Because they’re fully guaranteed, the 53-man per-game roster bonuses in 2014 and 2015 don’t give the Redskins any extra protection — unless Jackson gets suspended. Even if that happens, the team would have been protected via guaranteed base salaries. The thinking is that the devices, while ultimately meaningless, could be a way to make the player think he’s got more at stake than he really does.

In 2016, Jackson has the same terms as 2015, without the guarantees: $3.75 million base salary, $500,000 workout bonus, $3.75 million 53-man roster bonus. It adds up to a three-year, $24 million contract.

There’s also a fourth-year that automatically voids. That allows the Redskins to push $1.25 million of the signing bonus into 2017, which in turn keeps the cap charges lower in 2014, 2015, and 2016.

For 2014, the cap charge is $4.25 million. For 2015 and 2016, it’ll be $9.25 million each year.

Under the circumstances, it’s a very good deal for DeSean. Especially since there’s a good chance that, instead of multiple other suitors willing to pay big money (“mystery” or otherwise), Jackson in actuality had a crazy handful of nothin’.