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2024 Roster Updates

Terry is guaranteed 18.25m this season which completes his contractual salary guarantees.
 
Looks like camp leg to keep ST going. I doubt he is the opening day starter.
 
So your saying he's a placeholder not a placekicker?

I am intrigued by that UFL kicker who's made half a dozen 60-yard field goals.
 
Jake Bates. He is the guy that beat out Ramiz Ahmed, the guy the Commanders just signed from Birmingham.

Again, each year you see veterans that come available over the summer and quite often the primary 'camp' leg is not the one that is there kicking in the opener.

Ahmed has had a cup of coffee with the Packers and Giants and didn't make much of an impression. He's been around awhile too, having come out in 2019.
 
Like I said on last week's pod - you have to have a kicker - even for OTAs. So I don't read too much into Ahmed's signing. I am pretty confident they will find an upgrade by Training Camp.
 
With the entire draft class now signed and under contract, the team has 36.2m of available Cap Space for the Top 51. This puts them currently in 3rd in place in the league.
 
We may be readying to sign some vet minimums over the summer but if we commit more than an extra $5-6M for 2024 I will be surprised.
 
The Lions signed Bates but have Badgley under contract. He has good numbers especially on long field goals.

Curious Bates signed in Detroit with an established kicker.

Could be an opportunity later on in the summer.
 
I sometimes wonder about that. It seems that agents do their clients a disservice by steering them to teams with lower needs and a higher probability that they will be cut. You see this with UDFAs too where a number of players seem attracted to teams in which their position is well-stocked instead of teams who are weaker at their position.
 
Detroit is a team that made the NFC Championship last year though. If I'm a player who believes in myself, I want to go to the best team possible and I believe that given a fair shake, I'll beat the man I'm competing against.

Washington has become a great destination for guys now and that shows in the signings we have made but why come here to be part of rebuild when you could go somewhere that is competing right now?
 
2 years for 2m…yea!

Only 150k guaranteed…what?
 
Neophyte said:
Detroit is a team that made the NFC Championship last year though. If I'm a player who believes in myself, I want to go to the best team possible and I believe that given a fair shake, I'll beat the man I'm competing against.

Washington has become a great destination for guys now and that shows in the signings we have made but why come here to be part of rebuild when you could go somewhere that is competing right now?
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A player could also look at it the other way as in I'm great enough that I can make my team better. I don't need to be surrounded by great players to have a chance. I'm the difference maker. Regardless, I think the agent is giving the player bad counsel. Let's say a UDFA has a three percent chance to stick to a "competitive team" with a stacked roster versus a ten percent chance to make it onto a "building" team's roster with a glaring deficiency at that position. Sure, the player may want to believe that he can outduel the probowler and take his seat on the Super Bowl contender, but the agent ought to give better career advice.

Just my two cents.
 
Neophyte said:
Detroit is a team that made the NFC Championship last year though. If I'm a player who believes in myself, I want to go to the best team possible and I believe that given a fair shake, I'll beat the man I'm competing against.

Washington has become a great destination for guys now and that shows in the signings we have made but why come here to be part of rebuild when you could go somewhere that is competing right now?
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A player could also look at it the other way as in I'm great enough that I can make my team better. I don't need to be surrounded by great players to have a chance. I'm the difference maker. Regardless, I think the agent is giving the player bad counsel. Let's say a UDFA has a three percent chance to stick to a "competitive team" with a stacked roster versus a ten percent chance to make it onto a "building" team's roster with a glaring deficiency at that position. Sure, the player may want to believe that he can outduel the probowler and take his seat on the Super Bowl contender, but the agent ought to give better career advice.

Just my two cents.
 
He had a tryout scheduled here. He got a two-year offer there. 🤷🏻‍♂️
 
I’m talking more broadly. Last year, for example, we had a weak linebacking corp. poor starters and worse back ups. Knowing this, if I was the agent of any UDFA linebacker I would have pushed them our way. Same thing this year with any UDFA offensive tackles. However, we signed none or close to none.

Now, I don’t know if the prospects didn’t want to come here or we weren’t interested and I know it’s unlikely that our answer would have been solved that way, but it astounds me the lack of posititional roster awareness these players and their agents seem to possess.

They are just not playing the odds.
 
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