Looking at Tight End Contracts

[papabear]

Originally Posted by ramp1028

I wonder how this injury affects OD's potential cash in?

He'll be likely to have to play under another one year deal to prove that he's back from the injury much like Dunta. The Texans aren't going to offer him a big money long term deal to a guy with history of knee problems until he has proven he's healthy on the field....especially if they still control him so to speak.....and Like Dadmg said, assuming there is no new CBA OD will be a RFA again. Under the current deal he would have been a unrestricted free agent after this year, but part of the last CBA included some rules if the CBA expired without a new deal in place making it harder for players to make it to Free Agency and limiting what playoff teams are able to do in free agency. Same thing applies to Demeco as well....I think.

I'm sure some guys are going to get ridiculous money if there's no cap....but I think there will also be some teams slashing payroll under where the cap floor would have been. Prime candidates IMO....KC, St. Louis, Jacksonville, Detroit, Cleveland, and possibly Tenn?

[edo783]

OD would very likely have been playing under a RFA contract in 2010 whether he was hurt or not. Might have gotten a contract done before the end of the year and then would likely have cashed in pretty big in the guaranteed money arena, but most likely would have been in the RFA situation.

[popanot]

We'll see now if it was the system or if OD is really worth the big bucks. Love the guy and hope he gets well and gets paid someday, but if Dressen and Casey produce, I don't think he'll ever see the big bucks from the Texans.

[nunusguy]

Originally Posted by popanot

We'll see now if it was the system or if OD is really worth the big bucks. Love the guy and hope he gets well and gets paid someday, but if Dressen and Casey produce, I don't think he'll ever see the big bucks from the Texans.

The word is (FWIW ?), that OD could have got paid in recent months to the tune of 'bout 15 M guaranteed money but he passed on that because he was holding out for the kind of money other TEs like Winslow at TB were collecting ? Anyway, he's a big boy and he's blown out knees before so he knew such things do happen, knew the risks. In addition he and his agent knew we were entering the upcoming offseason with additional uncertainty because we may not get a new contract between owners & player-union ?
I don't think the Dressen/Casey combo will fully repalce OD Day 1, but in time I think we could be back very close to where we were with OD.

[NBT]

As good as OD was doing, he is no Winslow. OK for him to regard himself in that way, but he needs to understand how the NFL works on things like this. Now he is in the same boat that DRob was/is in.

[Fonz the Boss]

I was one of the few that said OD was a product of the offense. I will stick to what i said and hopefully Casey gets healthy because I want him in there instead of Dreesen.