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He'll sign with the Browns. That was just their 1st low-ball offer. My guess he'll eventually get 2.5 mil a year for the next 3 years.
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01-07-2010, 09:50 AM | #52 | |
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I've always had a problem with teams just being to cut a guy without fulfilling their contract. I think teams should be obligated to pay the players if they cut them.
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01-07-2010, 10:19 AM | #53 |
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How can his agent threaten a demand for a trade if he says his client didnt have any years left on his contract/
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01-07-2010, 10:34 AM | #54 | |
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01-07-2010, 10:35 AM | #55 | |
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Here's the real point. Butts in the seats. Attendance (such as it is) would plummet even more if they let Cribbs go. |
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01-07-2010, 10:46 AM | #56 |
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01-07-2010, 10:48 AM | #57 |
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01-07-2010, 11:15 AM | #58 |
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01-07-2010, 02:13 PM | #59 | |
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Very simple. A team trading for him would give him a new contract. You wouldn't be stupid enough to trade for him without getting that done. He's simply better than the contract he signed. Far better. He's one of the top players on that team. We aren't talking starting QB/LT/DE money here. We are talking about 3 million a year for a guy is amazing at what he does, is a clear fan favorite, plays his heart out and is in the prime of his career. Derek Anderson had a good year and they gave him a big contract. Yet Cribbs has played well for 5 years and you want to pay him like a fourth round pick? Morons. |
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01-07-2010, 02:25 PM | #61 | |
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He's not JUST a kick returner though! |
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01-07-2010, 03:06 PM | #62 | |
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Being serious about putting a winning product on the field will do that too but they appear not willing todo so, hence the (so far) decision not to up their offer on one of their only good players. |
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01-07-2010, 03:45 PM | #63 | |
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01-07-2010, 03:49 PM | #64 |
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ok, hes only USEFUL as a kick returner!
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01-07-2010, 03:52 PM | #65 |
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I get the feeling a lot of people didn't watch many Browns games this year. He was quite good in the Wildcat as the team won their last four games. As in, a serious threat rushing the ball. I would LOVE the Patriots to get him for 2.5 M/year.
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01-07-2010, 03:55 PM | #66 |
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He averaged 6.9 YPC on 55 carries and had 20 catches, as well. He is useful with the ball in his hands and, aside from 1/4 a season from Jerome Harrison, pretty much the only offensive threat on that team. |
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Now why would that be a smart move for the Browns?
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01-07-2010, 03:59 PM | #68 | |
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01-07-2010, 04:00 PM | #69 |
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did anyone watch a lot of Browns games??
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Well, whatever RedZone allowed me, so I saw the highlights.
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01-07-2010, 04:28 PM | #72 |
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01-07-2010, 04:29 PM | #73 | |
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You could argue that even if all he did was return kicks and punts that he'd be worth over 3 million dollars. Devin Hester makes 7 million. Cribbs is worth 3 or more. I don't know how this is even debatable. . . unless like everyone else in the world, you don't watch the actual games the Browns play. |
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01-07-2010, 04:33 PM | #74 |
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I agree. I am surprised by the anti-Cribbs crowd. I guess the only argument I could see trying to make is that kick-returners, for whatever reason, seem to "lose it" quite quickly. Devin Hester went from all-world returner to ok returner to not even a returner anymore quite quickly. The Human Joystick and Eddie Drummond also both sort of fell off the map quickly. So, there would appear to be a higher risk than with other positions that paying a KR big money could blow up in your face. Is Hester really worth $7 million right now? That said, Cribbs is much more than a returner. His ability to run the wildcat offense pretty effectively cannot be overlooked. Other teams have to game plan for that kind of thing and having it as weapon - potential or actual - is an advantage. Even as a kick returner, however, he's got a lot of value. While the Lions have suffered because a lack of talent across the vast majority of the roster, the lack of any kind of return game has constantly been an issue.
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Too late! Cribbs says farewell, "It's over" in Cleveland | ProFootballTalk.com Browns wide receiver and return man Josh Cribbs says he's finished in Cleveland. "I said good-bye to some people on the medical staff, some of the equipment guys and the coaches,'' Cribbs told the Cleveland Plain Dealer today. "I wished the coaches luck and told them I hoped they kept their job. But it absolutely felt like the last time I'd be setting foot inside the building. I feel like it's over for me in Cleveland.'' Cribbs, who previously said he doesn't think he fits in new front office boss Mike Holmgren's plans, said he expects Holmgren to trade him during the off-season. "There's no way I'll play another down for the Browns without the new contract,'' he said. "They won't let me sit, because I have value. They'd be forced to trade me.'' Cribbs said Holmgren made the right call in retaining Browns coach Eric Mangini, but he thinks Holmgren has insulted him by giving him a $1.4 million a year offer that suggests the Browns see him as strictly a special teams player, and not a threat on offense. "I'm not just insulted by the number, but by the fact they consider me just a kick returner," Cribbs said. "I'm so much more than that. . . . I'm shocked they make me an offer like that after all I've done for this team." In addition to being a Pro Bowl returner, Cribbs caught 20 passes for 135 yards and ran 55 times for 381 yards this season.
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01-07-2010, 05:49 PM | #78 |
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Welcome to life with Holmgren. After seeing how he "used" Seneca Wallace here, Cribbs better get out if he wants to be more than a special teamer.
Of course the caveat is that Holmgren isn't the coach so if Cribbs does come back he could be used in more ways, but I'd be amazed if that happens given how Holmgren tends to view talents like that. Not saying Holmgren wasn't a good coach in Seattle, but that was certainly one of his major flaws. Potentially the best athlete on the Seahawks pretty much never saw the field during his tenure here (didn't really improve much under Mora either, but that's another thread).
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01-07-2010, 07:31 PM | #80 | |
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meh - I read nothing into this. These are the quotes I've been hearing all day here. I still think he'll be a Brown next year with a new contract.
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Having watched some Browns' games this year, and being in agreement that he's currently they're best offensive player after Joe Thomas and Jerome Harrison, I'd say he's well worth $3 million/year, and frankly if the NFL goes uncapped he'd probably be a bargain at that rate.
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01-08-2010, 09:26 AM | #82 | |
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I thought he was underpaid at 800k and thought a raise to what they're offering was reasonable. For him to call that insulting is a little unreasonable, I think. 3 mil is probably too much for him. Especially since he can't bargain with other teams. And NFL teams have been preparing for this uncapped year for a while. I don't expect it to be the panacea for players that some expect. I especially expect teams to cut way back on signing bonuses. Cribbs only options will be to play for the Browns for something in the 2 million range, or stock shelves at the Piggly Wiggly for 7.00 an hour with no health insurance.
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As a Steelers fan, I hope they don't pay him and he goes to the NFC. Cribbs is the only guy on the entire Browns team that scares me when the ball is in his hands. Just on his return stats alone - 12 yards per punt return (4th in the NFL), 27.5 per kick return (3rd in the NFL) - he's earned more than the $1.4m. The fact that he also scored 4 return TDs and was pretty good in limited action as a WR/RB just adds to his value. I wouldn't sign him to $4m, but somewhere around $2.5m - $3m is pretty reasonable, especially if your signing bonus is only in the range of $5-$6m. Then if he doesn't perform, you can release him after a couple of years with not much of a penalty.
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interesting note on the blackadar.... I was thinking about this... and I hope they do pay him, go ahead and waste tons of money on a kick returner/wilcat guy. But i admit, having grown up in Cleveland nothing make me happier than seeing the Browns lose
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01-08-2010, 11:06 AM | #86 | |
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You do realize that $2.5m or $3m per year isn't a "ton of money" when the last salary cap was $127m (and there's no cap at all next year), don't you? Even at $3.5m, Cribbs would count for only 2.76% of the 2009 entire cap. That gives you an example of how insulting that $1.4m offer was - it's less than they spend on the average player for the Browns. According to this http://www.sportscity.com/NFL/Cleveland-Browns-Salaries, at $1.4m per year he wouldn't even be a top 20 paid guy on the team. Last edited by Blackadar : 01-08-2010 at 11:07 AM. |
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01-08-2010, 11:14 AM | #87 |
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GOD FORBID WE INSULT JOE JUREVICIUS BY PAYING CRIBBS A COMPARABLE SALARY!!!!
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I'm not sure why the Browns care what Joe Jurevicius thinks seeing as how they cut him last year after he got that staph infection.
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