Quote:1.) You re-sign Monroe...  Or let him walk if you don't want to pay him.  Sometimes no compensation is better for future bargaining than accepting less value.  This tells future teams not to budge on their offers (especially for a new GM).

 

2.) I think the majority of teams that would trade for him would do so with a contract extension in mind.  I don't think any team goes into a trade and is like, "Hey, lets rent him and see if we can re-sign him during Free Agency."  The Ravens situation was really strange.  They didn't have the cap money and they were desperate for a tackle for a playoff push.  They decided to gamble that he'd re-sign during Free Agency, and I tend to believe they had some assurances that he would.

 

3.)  This is a hypothetical.  We could play that all day.

1. So you get no compensation, except his services for the remainder of a 4 win season.  As for re-signing him, we can outbid the Ravens and do that right now.  With a couple extra picks in hand, to boot.  As for the rest of your statement about "future bargaining", I think that's a bit of a reach.

 

2. I don't know what was in Eugene or his agent's head, but he wasn't exactly playing like Joe Thomas.

 

3.  Unless the team shut him down, injury is a reality on every play.  In fact, I think it was only 2 games later that Joeckyl went down for the season.

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