So there's an article on NFL network saying that Orlando Brown is expected to sign for 6 years $145 mil.
That comes to $24.16 mil/yr and makes him the highest paid offensive lineman in football. It also would give him the 19th highest salary per year in the NFL
How would you feel if that is the contract he ended up signing?
I'm fine with it. He is a top 5 LT and he's only 26 next season. A young great LT is a guy you can't let leave. [Reply]
Sometimes I'm like "OK, this dude's not bad. Actually he's pretty good." then literally the next week he looks like an UDFA who will wash out of the league by season's end.
It's been a while but I don't remember Fisher's lows ever being this low, though I know he had the opposite issue of Brown and struggled with physical pass rushers.
That injury in the AFC title game didn't just hurt us in the Superbowl, damnit. [Reply]
Jesus Christ, after watching that I see no reason whatsoever to even let him finish the season as the starter. Give Geron Christian a goddamn chance, there's no way in hell he'd be any worse. I don't care what his opinion is of himself just because his dad is a hall of famer, he is absolutely NOT in the same stratosphere as his old man.
Tell him he can play RT or sit his fat ass on the bench. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Razaele:
You are not going to find someone who can give Brown’s level of production as a Day 1 starter in the 2nd or 3rd round of the draft. Letting him go and starting over with a project player probably means we accept a downgrade in production at LT for the next year or two, not an upgrade. It’ll either be a journeyman stopgap or a young player who’s not a high level prospect at LT.
People here want that because they simply don’t like Brown and want him gone, but the team won’t evaluate the decision that way. It’ll be a weighing of what Brown will really accept, what options are available in the draft and free agency, the level of risk the team wants to expose Mahomes to, and the prioritization of fixing other holes on the team.
Nobody in real life evaluates with the “can’t be worse / anyone would be an upgrade” mindset CP has, especially when Mahomes’ health and longevity is a concern.
They are already exposing Patrick to significant risk with a below average pass blocking LT and a Mediocre guard playing RT.
Downgrade? To what, exactly? Brown is almost as bad as Wylie, who blows goats.
This idea that we must overpay Brown because there's no guaranteed all-pro available is horseshit. Brown is mediocre; we can live with mediocre, we just can't pay premium for it. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Chris Meck:
Downgrade? To what, exactly? Brown is almost as bad as Wylie, who blows goats.
This idea that we must overpay Brown because there's no guaranteed all-pro available is horseshit. Brown is mediocre; we can live with mediocre, we just can't pay premium for it.
I'd argue he's worse than Wylie. They're literally neck and neck when it comes to pressures allowed and Wylie is typically drawing the tougher assignment. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Superturtle:
I'd argue he's worse than Wylie. They're literally neck and neck when it comes to pressures allowed and Wylie is typically drawing the tougher assignment.
Wiley is a hell of a lot cheaper. Both of them are in the bottom 15% of the league when it comes to protecting the QB. If you're going to perform like this, you better be a pretty cheap player. Surely in the future they can find someone with similar performance to Orlando that won't cost north of $20 million per year. [Reply]
Originally Posted by AdolfOliverBush:
I'm out on this fat fuck. Veach could sign a journeyman for pennies on the dollar and get the same performance or better.
Plug in a rookie next year and let him learn on the job, idgaf.
Toss a little old lady out there. She'd play for butterscotch candies and would be about as effective as OBJ.
That would be cheating. The lil old lady would offer the EDGEs those butterscotches before every snap, and those guys love candy. That's a flag on every snap. [Reply]
