The 2025 Free Agency Thread

Darrell Green Fan said:
I too wanted Darisaw and really saw that as a no-brainer pick, I clearly remember a lot of chatter about JOC. I posted that I wanted them to draft Kyle Hamilton and was not happy that they traded back and took Johan Dotson. Forbes over Gonzalez was universally criticized the next day. Posters pointed out that on Forbes' highlights where he was making interceptions that he was beaten on the play but the ball was underthrown or tipped or whatever. Learning that there was a screaming match in the draft room about Forbes over Gonzalez confirms that we have only one man to blame.

It remains staggering that message board posters knew more about drafting players than Ron Fucking Rivera. I acually wonder if he is aware of how bad he was or like Snyder is he still in denial?
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I doubt Rivera gets it. He seems to live in football delusion. Heck it was nauseating to hear Greg Olsen in a broadcoast covering this team go on and on about how Rivera set up this staff with a roster built to win. Could it get more absurd? Peters completely overhauled Ron's junk roster. But I gather Ron sold that to Olsen, the idea that he deserves credit for the team winning.

Out of Shanny, Cerrato, Bruce, Ron as to defacto GMs of this team. they were all bad. But Ron IMO was easily the worst of the lot.
 
SkinsNumberOne said:
He appears to still be in denial, but his apparent hire as Cal's - well, what has been described as "GM" - means others are fueling the denial too.

The carousel moves on.

Yes it is unbelievable how bad Ron was at his job but he wanted "Full control" and essentially later on complained that he had to do too much in a tough time. I agree it was a bad situation he didn't plan for, but still, he wanted the full control.

On topic- I think when you have a VERY dynamic draft and your view on FA is to "Fill the blanks" you have to be careful balancing moves pre-draft with moves post-draft.
Let's say you have holes at positions a,b,c,d. In the draft with BPA, you will not need to trade up/down too much to get BPA. That may be viewed as a strength in some ways for a draft strategy.

After the draft, you can fill holes with FA.

If you fill too many holes pre-draft, then you end up with strong needs at positions a, b. You try to fill those in the draft, you may end up reaching more. You can't always get the trades up/down you may want to get. If you have fewer strong needs, you may end up reaching more.

Anyway, just some thoughts I had about balancing pre-draft and post-draft moves with FA. It's probably a bit of a balancing act.
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FA starts soon and the draft is not until the end of April. If they wait until after the draft the pickings will be slim. Looking back at a few of our signings and Luvu, Wagner, BadAss and Allegretti were all signed right away and long before the draft.
 
skinsinparadise said:
I doubt Rivera gets it. He seems to live in football delusion. Heck it was nauseating to hear Greg Olsen in a broadcoast covering this team go on and on about how Rivera set up this staff with a roster built to win. Could it get more absurd? Peters completely overhauled Ron's junk roster. But I gather Ron sold that to Olsen, the idea that he deserves credit for the team winning.

Out of Shanny, Cerrato, Bruce, Ron as to defacto GMs of this team. they were all bad. But Ron IMO was easily the worst of the lot.
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Olsen is just loyal to his former coach. I think most people who cover the league understand just how bad RR was.
 
Darrell Green Fan said:
Olsen is just loyal to his former coach. I think most people who cover the league understand just how bad RR was.
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I thinks others get it but you asked if Ron knew how bad he was at his job, I'd guess no.

Ron also referenced in an interview not long ago that he was rooting for Quinn because they are friendly and he referenced Quinn thanking Ron for helping set things up for him.

I am guessing Ron is determined to think that he's somehow part of this team's current success.
 
skinsinparadise said:
I thinks others get it but you asked if Ron knew how bad he was at his job, I'd guess no.

Ron also referenced in an interview not long ago that he was rooting for Quinn because they are friendly and he referenced Quinn thanking Ron for helping set things up for him.

I am guessing Ron is determined to think that he's somehow part of this team's current success.
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Unfortunatly I believe you are correct. Anyone getting to a position like that has an ego the size of Vermont.
 
Chris 44 said:
How does this work if the player refuses to play? Obviously he wont get paid for games missed, if he misses multiple games / season can he be suspended? If he sits out for the year will he automatically become a free agent the next year (assuming his contract has expired) would a suspension follow the player after contract expiration? Many players couldn't afford it but I would assume MG has the resources to dig in. MG also signed through 2026.
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On the last point - if you hold out the whole year that year does not count and he would still have one year left on his deal and be contracted to the Browns. There are fines in players contracts for missing mandatory offseason workouts and training camp so he would accrue fines and then obviously miss paychecks if he sits out games in the regular season.
 
skinsinparadise said:
Yeah Darrisaw was who I wanted, followed by JOK in that draft. McQueen loved to say that I wanted Jamin so criticizing Rivera was off limits for me when he was defending him in his last year and I kept blasting Rivera. But lol, as I would tell him I didn't even have Jamin rated in the first round let alone him being who I wanted in the first. I put him as a 2nd rounder. I thought he had potential, I was wrong about that, but he wasn't my guy in the first. Moehrig was the next guy, the third guy for me at that pick.

Ironically, Chinn was one of my favs in his draft. Quan Martin made "my guys" list in his draft. So if they signed Moehrig, it would complete the trio for me as for some of the safeties I liked pre draft. Sadly, I loved McKinney, too. I saw him play live once in an Alabama game and just zeroed in on him for most of the game. Too bad we didn't sign him.

I recall me and you especially liked to talk safeties and TEs. Usually I am deep into those spots by now. But I have been going hard into RBs, D line and some O line not the other spots yet.
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Yeah, I haven't been paying much attention, since we lost ES and I had a problem with my TV for a bit, so I'm vaguely starting to pay attention now. I'm pretty out of it lately.
 
Hail Raiser said:
Yeah, I haven't been paying much attention, since we lost ES and I had a problem with my TV for a bit, so I'm vaguely starting to pay attention now. I'm pretty out of it lately.
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It's busy work period for me which is about to slow down. I am fascinated by FA, more than ever because i expect we will be active and we are in a rare window/. But I'll start hitting the draft hard towards the end of next week.
 
dudleylaywikeer said:
good riddance
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????

Why so negative.

The guy played hard for many years on crap teams. He came worked hard to come back from an injury everyone thought was season ending.

This is the right move for the team because of cap and diminishing production, but I wish Jon well.
 
skinsinparadise said:
It's busy work period for me which is about to slow down. I am fascinated by FA, more than ever because i expect we will be active and we are in a rare window/. But I'll start hitting the draft hard towards the end of next week.
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It seems like almost any player that you want is available this year. Pretty wild FA and we're loaded and cash rich, too.
 
burgold said:
????

Why so negative.

The guy played hard for many years on crap teams. He came worked hard to come back from an injury everyone thought was season ending.

This is the right move for the team because of cap and diminishing production, but I wish Jon well.
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i,ve followed him since alabama,he is the wrong guy and always has loved himself more than his team. good riddance.
 
Curious it others see it the same, but IMO, we’re currently looking at -

Starters needed: SS, DE, TE, Corner, G, WR (I’m counting 3 corners and 3 receivers as starters). Obviously OT would be nice as well.

Depth needed: DE, DT, Corner, TE, OT, G, C, WRx2, QB

We have some depth at: S (Reaves/Owens), RB (Ekeler/Rodriguez), G (Paul), ILB (Magee), DE (JJB)

Draft could bring: 5th DE, 4th DT, 5th Corner, 4th OT, 4th OG, 3rd C… (numbers not indicative of which spot they’ll earn).

Look to next round of FA to fill in remaining gaps.

Going to be interesting to see how much we shuffle our oline - does Allegretti stay, move, or become our swing G/C? Do Wylie or Coleman move inside (also possible Coleman switches to the right). Does Paul earn a starting spot?
 
Commander Wraith said:
Curious it others see it the same, but IMO, we’re currently looking at -

Starters needed: SS, DE, TE, Corner, G, WR (I’m counting 3 corners and 3 receivers as starters). Obviously OT would be nice as well.

Depth needed: DE, DT, Corner, TE, OT, G, C, WRx2, QB

We have some depth at: S (Reaves/Owens), RB (Ekeler/Rodriguez), G (Paul), ILB (Magee), DE (JJB)

Draft could bring: 5th DE, 4th DT, 5th Corner, 4th OT, 4th OG, 3rd C… (numbers not indicative of which spot they’ll earn).

Look to next round of FA to fill in remaining gaps.

Going to be interesting to see how much we shuffle our oline - does Allegretti stay, move, or become our swing G/C? Do Wylie or Coleman move inside (also possible Coleman switches to the right). Does Paul earn a starting spot?
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It really hurts that it looks like we need a TE. Thought we would be set with Sinnot, still hoping he shows up and we resign Bates.
 
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