Pro Football Talk: Free Agents

So here we go again with another guest blog. This time we're going to hear from loyal reader Eric. Eric works in PR but he's a huge fan of the Tennessee Titans and New York Mets and rumor has it that he used to be a big rap star and DJ as well (though not to be confused with this Eric Wright). Eric is just one of the many famous alumni who hail from American University (the Eagles!) which also brought us David Gregory, Goldie Hawn, David Aldridge, numerous politicians (including Robert Byrd and New York's own Rick Lazio), NBA player Kermit Washington, and former Yankee Steve Farr. You can follow him at Twitter @cericwright. Without further ado, here is Eric's ranting on NFL free agency.

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 Pro Football Talk  calls the Brandon Jacobs deal a "joke" and says that he could have done a lot better on the market. He's still getting some pretty sweet guaranteed coin tho.

 

Midnite 2nite is when the madness begins.  If haynesworth signs TONITE with the redskins, if I'm Fisher, I'm calling for tampering immediately as groundwork may have already been "laid" for a potential deal -- groundwork laid during a meeting of his agent and Snyder during the NFL combine.  This link is from profootball talk, but this story's been out all week.  

 

Check out the Tennessean's sports page and some of their bloggers as well. It's a joke. Now this could have all been avoided had we not stupidly given him a contract last year that all but guaranteed we couldn't franchise him again. That being said, I'm mixed as to how I feel about him leaving.  it will leave a HUGE void in the D-line, but….the last 2 years of greatness has come w/ a contract at stake.  Has he grown up and matured?  Or was he just looking to cash in?  The Tennesseean today had a great pros/cons of signing him. 

 

Aside from being a Titans fan, I am writing all this also because he's arguably the top free agent in the class this year.

 

I hope as we get closer to the draft, you do some mock drafts, and let your readers submit their own as well. (but it's only a good mock draft, if there are explanations to validate why you think a team will pick a certain player :)

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Thanks for that, Eric. I think that with what occurred in the MLB free agency, where guys who waited got screwed because of the economy's effect on the game, Jacobs wanted to get as much guaranteed money quickly as he could. He's an integral part to this Giants team so I'm glad he didn't look elsewhere. And I'm hoping that him signing for less means that Housh or one of the other free agents (at WR or LB preferably) is coming to New York. As for Tennessee, let's just hope for them that their window of opportunity didn't close last year. And as for the mock draft, I'll make sure to do one right before the draft (though leave much of the expertise to Mel Kiper Jr. and Todd McShay). Thanks again!