The only way he gets a big deal if it is a team that has to spend to get over the cap minimum and is trying to sell tickets. Henry is easy to sell to Joe fans as "see we are trying to win, buy season tickets"
Yeah, I kind of doubt anyone gives him a huge deal. Maybe everyone else will be wary of the age also. But it only takes one team to do it.
Just speaking for myself, but I don't care about stats. I just go on eye test.
Yeah he isn't the same explosive runner and it's not going to get better.
Yeah Eddie George at that point in his career was totally broken. Henry last year still went for 1100 yards rushing a 4.2 ypc. He isn't the same back he once was but that's not Eddie George. That's good starting RB material. And hell I don't know, maybe he falls the rest of the way off the cliff next year. But I doubt he is total trash. If he can give us anything close to that range, it's what we need. And pair him with an explosive young rookie with fresh legs. It's not complicated.
I think he can be very effective in a timeshare, and his salary should reflect as much. I think something like 2/10 would be fair, maybe with incentives for yards or TD's, but I wouldn't give him anything more than 5/year at this stage.
Probably for the draft thread, but I was just watching some of his highlights and wanted thoughts on him. He doesn't look super impressive, but he must be faster than he looks because I see safeties taking bad angles on him and he's running away from some pretty good teams.
Yea at this point I'd prefer a pair of well rounded backs that lean bigger/physical than smaller home run hitters. If they can figure out what to do with Vaughn he could be a scat back of sorts but who knows whether or not they can get that sorted out.
Thick comes to mind. But shifty for a bigger RB. Most of the time bigger RBs are kind of straight line, one cut types of dudes. Estime is more than that in my opinion.
It's weird, for some reason I thought he was a smaller guy. Not small small but I didn't remember him being 6'2" 220 pounds. I guess I didn't see him as much over the last couple years. But I also know the first two years in the NFL his trajectory was looking really good and he was a pain in the ass to stop. I think the Redskins drafted Brian Robinson Jr. and their coach liked him more. Not saying they were correct in that preference but you know how coaches are. And Brian Robinson sort of had that great story attached to him.
A two year, incentive-laden deal would be ideal. Maybe a base pay of like 4.5 million?
Your deliberate exclusion of Deuce Vaughn has been noted.
Gibson would be an interesting one. He has talent for sure but seems like he has never earned trust.
I don't know... I've just barely started watching them (but I'm determined to this year). He didn't jump out to me during the season, but in watching highlights he looks... okay. Wish he were faster for not being bigger than he is. He does seem elusive and has some moves, but he runs kind of passive, kind of soft.
Yeah it's not that there aren't good RBs in this draft. But I'm not sure there is a guy that I love in the second round even. Now I'm sure a RB will go in the second round, but when there are 5 or 6 guys that could be and the rest I expect to go in the third round or later, it tells you that no RB should probably be going in the second round. Like if you have 6 RBs with third round grades, sure someone is going to fall in love with one of them and jump on them in round two because they need a RB. Hell that may even be us. But generally speaking, you should probably wait until the third and pluck a dude.
I think McCarthy is kind of like Parcells, biased against little guys. I think we saw that with Deuce and Dowdle. So I doubt we even sign a smaller guy, and I kind of doubt we draft a guy like Irving unless he just really falls a mile.