Uncapped Rules Will Pose A Challenge For Big Blue
All I’m hearing from fans and pundits these days is “the Giants should get this guy in free agency” kind of stuff. That’s all great, but it appears many do not understand the reality or the rules of free agency in an “uncapped” season.
The threshold for a player to qualify as an unrestricted free-agent (UFA) jumps from four years of service to six. Under these changes, 212 players that would have been UFAs are now RFAs (restricted free agents).
Translation: The pool to get help in free agency is much thinner. The flip side is teams won’t lose as many players, either.
According to Football’s Future.com, of the ten top-rated free-agent linebackers available come March 5th, nine of them are restricted. Translation: teams are going to pay through the nose if they want to sign one of these players.
Only Arizona’s Karlos Dansby is unrestricted. He already has been “franchised’ twice by the Cardinals and he has expressed a desire to move on. He most likely will, and he’ll have plenty of suitors. The Giants among them.
Of the RFAs, you have some solid talent that most likely will be tendered at a high price: a first and third round draft choice. On that list are DeMeco Ryans, Barrett Ruud, Kirk Morrison, Shawne Merriman, D’Qwell Jackson and Thomas Davis.
It would be costly for the Giants, who loathe parting with high draft picks, to lure one of these away from their current teams. The general consensus is that very few of them will be changing teams.
Ryans is worth the package in my estimation. If they can pry him out of Houston, sign Dansby and draft Rolando McClain, I’ll see you in Dallas next February.
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“Ryans is worth the package in my estimation. If they can pry him out of Houston, sign Dansby and draft Rolando McClain, I’ll see you in Dallas next February.”
I would agree with you John, except your inspired plan has one pesky little flaw… If DeMeco Ryans would cost 1st & 3rd round picks, then there is no way the Giants have a shot of drafting McClain without a first rounder to use on selecting him… just sayin’… Even if the Giants managed to acquire another 1st rounder or keep the one they have, McClain will be gone before pick # 15.
true which is why we would have to get creative or ballzy to get back into the first round
John,
Are Clint Sintim and Micheal Boley just chop suey? All the Giants need is a MLB. Boley will be a full season out of his injury and Sintim will have a year of experience under his belt. Not a situation that calls for drastic measure.
Igs….this is a high end reach on my part…..if the Giants trade Osi, I see Sintim being used in the DL rotation as an end….he’s shown that he can do battle with OTs……Boley is man without a position….does Fewell want him to play Will or Sam? He’s shown holes at both positions…..that would all have to be decided before any of what I wrote comes to pass.
Okay John,
That makes more sense. A bit spectacular for Reese though. Boley has played very well considering lingering injury and, imo is a more natural Will. I am hoping and praying that the Giants are not dumb enough to let go of another one of their home run draft picks in Osi. This is smething that I’ve killed the Jets for over the years. I hope the Giants are not getting in that business.
At any rate, you do have a starter at Will and Sam – and good, strong, starters at that.
I am sorry but Boley is too small to play Sam. He is everything we need on the weak side. When he played solidly as the year wore on, its also important to note that he was never healthy last year.
I would be near impossible to trade away our first round, and then go get Mclain. Most mocks I have seen have him going to the Chiefs.
I think Carlos Dansby at Mike would make Reese life a whole lot easier. Go get that DT with the first, then the S in the second. In the third on in we can go fill out depth.
I like Price over Williams, but a lot of Mocks have Williams going to us. We need a DT to stuff the run, we have been for years. I would like to trade down for Price and get extra picks.
Any thought on Price v. Williams?
Touchdown,
I was thinking Sintim in terms of the Sam, and Boley on Will. And I’m glad somebody else can acknowledge that the guy was hurt and still play more than adequately.
Dan Williams is a more natural nose tackle. He may be exposed when given pass-rushing responsibilities, and may not have the athleticism/speed to play in space the way a Brian Price could. Williams is a big, stout player with very thick legs. Now if McClain falls to 15 and the Giants take him, there is the possibility that Mt. Cody is there in the 2nd round at 14. Now Mt. Cody is a NT that could do some real damage in a 4-3 because singled up he is pretty much unblockable.
Then there’s Alex Carrington who’s a small school monster.
I’m with you on signing Dansby also. Im not worried about all that FA stuff because Dansby, who isn’t restricted, is the prime guy anyway. At this point he offers you more than McClain does and he’s still very young.