2012 Draft Needs?

[chuck]

Originally Posted by Joshua

Everyone can judge for themselves how easy it will be to replace Mario.

The only guy on the list I would immediately trade Mario for already plays for the Texans.

[Joshua]

Originally Posted by chuck

The only guy on the list I would immediately trade Mario for already plays for the Texans.

Although I certainly don't follow every team closely enough to speak with too much certainty, my initial impression is there are only about 3 guys I would think are close (Watt, Suh and Pierre-Paul) with Orakpo a possible 4th. That's out of 39 draft picks. Not good odds.

[chuck]

Originally Posted by Joshua

Although I certainly don't follow every team closely enough to speak with too much certainty, my initial impression is there are only about 3 guys I would think are close (Watt, Suh and Pierre-Paul) with Orakpo a possible 4th. That's out of 39 draft picks. Not good odds.

Pierre-Paul is pretty damn good. It would not bother me at all to have that guy on my team.

[barrett]

Seriously. Who looks at their roster and says let's get rid of our best pass rusher?

If we can't get a deal done or he wants out, than salvage the situation and make a deal. But priority 1 should be a long term deal for Mario.

[HPF Bob]

Who looks at their roster and says "let's get rid of our best passer"?

Oh, wait. There's Indianapolis.

[Nconroe]

Also you can gain cap space by giving Mario an extension fairly soon before he hits FA.

As I nderstsnd it Marios salary this year was like 15mil, but cap hit was 18 mil from deferred bbonus. Then if you franchise him it is 120 % of 18 or 22 mil.

Most likely you can sign Mario to some back loaded guaranteed contract and reduce this years 18 to something below 14 mil given injury history and good win-win situation.

So that lkeeps Mario which need to do and keeps cap space flexibility without considering other cap moves they might make, like extending Schaub.

Considering draft picks only work out 30-50% of time it really would be foolish to trade a top 5 olb/De for draft picks.