Quote:1. I'd estimate his market value as $1.5M or less. I certainly could be wrong, but there have been a lot of decent backup DTs who have signed for veteran minimum or close to it these last few years. And before you once again spin the DE claim, any reasonably quick DT could fill the role of run stuffing DE.


 

Saving a million dollars is not worth "quite a bit of work"? I'd be glad to take that low-value $1M off your hands.


 

2. You don't think that $2.5M could make a difference? There is always some amount that could make a difference. I wonder how much more the Jags would have had to offer Mack before Cleveland gave in? Probably a lot more than $2.5M, but every little bit helps.


 

3. Market price is what you have to pay a free agent. Hood's contract was market price. I personally don't think Hood was worth $4M, but that's the price Caldwell needed to pay to outbid other NFL GMs.

 

1. What is this estimate based on, specifically? There is no "spin the DE claim". He's a defensive end. That is his primary position. He is not a defensive tackle and hasn't been since 2012. He plays defensive end.

 

Also, I'll let you know when I'm a multi-billion dollar corporation that deals with contracts worth millions of dollars. Teams aren't going to go through all of that to save themselves $500k-$1M on the salary cap.

 

2. No, on a team with $50M+ in salary cap room, $2.5M on the cap isn't going to make the difference. Sure, the Jaguars could have offered more. Offering $2.5M more wasn't going to back Cleveland off, because on a single season that's not a large amount to an NFL team. Especially one with loads of cap room.

 

3. How many other GMs were bidding on Ziggy Hood, though? Who was Caldwell out bidding? Now, you claim that Alualu's "market value" is $1.5M, which is based entirely on nothing, but you agree that Hood is overpaid at $4M and that's what a GM would have to pay for market value. Do you see the disconnect there?

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