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Sounds like the Rams released finnegan
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Um, I don't think this is correct.
In Jim Thomas's article, it says "Within the past 24 hours, coach Jeff Fisher and executive vice president Kevin Demoff spoke with Finnegan, both informing him that he was being released." "We've expressed interest in him coming back to our football team," Fisher said. "We appreciate what he's done for us. I know he was personally disappointed the way last year ended up for us. But as we told him, he can help win football games for us next year."
Ian RapoportVerified account @RapSheet More on Cortland Finnegan: He told Jeff Fisher and a few members of the #Rams front office. He tweeted so quickly, others found out that way
This is what Deadspin is saying
http://deadspin.com/cortland-finnegan-uses-twitter-to-tell-the-rams-hes-le-1537223208
Cortland Finnegan Uses Twitter To Tell The Rams He's Leaving
Barry Petchesky
Filed to: cortland finnegan
CB Cortland Finnegan followed Jeff Fisher to the Rams, but in his second season in St. Louis he's been terrible and injured. He's due $6 million next year, and would count for $10 million against the salary cap. Since this is the NFL and contracts mean nothing, the Rams sure as hell weren't going to pay that. So they came to him with some options for a pay cut. He decided to tell the world, "No thanks."
That news apparently came as a huge surprise to many members of the Rams. According to Ian Rapaport, Finnegan told Fisher and some other folks in the front office, but then immediately sent out the Tweet, ensuring most of the Rams staff found out the same time you did. (Well, not you. You don't follow Cortland Finnegan on Twitter.)
Finnegan told the people who needed to know, so he's in the clear. And it's nice to get a reversal of the usual process, where a player finds out he's been cut or traded from the media before his team tells him.
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Interesting to me. Maybe he's looking for more $. Which sounds like it would save us more on the cap. Hopefully he get's picked up soon for big bucks.
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Wow. I like the guy, but if he thinks after last year that he's still worth what the Rams were set to pay him, he's delusional.
More on Cortland Finnegan: He told Jeff Fisher and a few members of the #Rams front office. He tweeted so quickly, others found out that way
This is what Deadspin is saying
http://deadspin.com/cortland-finnegan-uses-twitter-to-tell-the-rams-hes-le-1537223208
Cortland Finnegan Uses Twitter To Tell The Rams He's Leaving
Barry Petchesky
Filed to: cortland finnegan
CB Cortland Finnegan followed Jeff Fisher to the Rams, but in his second season in St. Louis he's been terrible and injured. He's due $6 million next year, and would count for $10 million against the salary cap. Since this is the NFL and contracts mean nothing, the Rams sure as hell weren't going to pay that. So they came to him with some options for a pay cut. He decided to tell the world, "No thanks."
That news apparently came as a huge surprise to many members of the Rams. According to Ian Rapaport, Finnegan told Fisher and some other folks in the front office, but then immediately sent out the Tweet, ensuring most of the Rams staff found out the same time you did. (Well, not you. You don't follow Cortland Finnegan on Twitter.)
Finnegan told the people who needed to know, so he's in the clear. And it's nice to get a reversal of the usual process, where a player finds out he's been cut or traded from the media before his team tells him.
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Interesting to me. Maybe he's looking for more $. Which sounds like it would save us more on the cap. Hopefully he get's picked up soon for big bucks.
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I wish him the best. He's one of the player I respected the most. Classy guy and great teammate.
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Huh. So "many members of the Rams" includes who? The janitor? Ian must hate the idea that he got scooped on the story by Finnegan himself. Obviously the people within the Rams organization that mattered (as far as needing to know) knew before the tweet.
More on Cortland Finnegan: He told Jeff Fisher and a few members of the #Rams front office. He tweeted so quickly, others found out that way
This is what Deadspin is saying
http://deadspin.com/cortland-finnegan-uses-twitter-to-tell-the-rams-hes-le-1537223208
Cortland Finnegan Uses Twitter To Tell The Rams He's Leaving
Barry Petchesky
Filed to: cortland finnegan
CB Cortland Finnegan followed Jeff Fisher to the Rams, but in his second season in St. Louis he's been terrible and injured. He's due $6 million next year, and would count for $10 million against the salary cap. Since this is the NFL and contracts mean nothing, the Rams sure as hell weren't going to pay that. So they came to him with some options for a pay cut. He decided to tell the world, "No thanks."
That news apparently came as a huge surprise to many members of the Rams. According to Ian Rapaport, Finnegan told Fisher and some other folks in the front office, but then immediately sent out the Tweet, ensuring most of the Rams staff found out the same time you did. (Well, not you. You don't follow Cortland Finnegan on Twitter.)
Finnegan told the people who needed to know, so he's in the clear. And it's nice to get a reversal of the usual process, where a player finds out he's been cut or traded from the media before his team tells him.
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Interesting to me. Maybe he's looking for more $. Which sounds like it would save us more on the cap. Hopefully he get's picked up soon for big bucks.
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A Finnegan move was inevitable
By Nick Wagoner
http://espn.go.com/blog/st-louis-rams/post/_/id/6484/a-finnegan-move-was-inevitable
The St. Louis Rams have not released cornerback Cortland Finnegan yet but the day is coming soon as the team informed him Wednesday. Whether Finnegan returns to the Rams or not in 2014 remains to be seen but the pending move should come as no surprise to anyone paying even a little bit of attention.
Rams coach Jeff Fisher expressed optimism that the team would bring Finnegan back at last month's NFL scouting combine but what was left unsaid at the time was how much the team would be paying him if he did return. Either way, it was pretty obvious the Rams weren't going to bring Finnegan back at his scheduled $10 million cap hit in 2014.
Put simply, Finnegan never performed like the $50 million corner the team signed him to be. He got off to a hot start as a Ram, posting interceptions in his first three games with the team. From there, Finnegan's first two years in St. Louis were marred by injury and a lack of productivity.
Toward the end of the 2012 season, Finnegan battled a hamstring injury which limited him to a nickel corner role. He appeared to get past it but was looked like he had lost a step early in 2013 before a fractured orbital bone ended his season after seven games in which he struggled mightily.
In two seasons with the Rams, Finnegan played 23 games with 128 tackles, a sack, a forced fumble and four interceptions.
It's possible that the door hasn't completely closed on Finnegan's time in St. Louis. He was a valuable piece of the locker room, not only for the young corners but for the young team as a whole. He and Fisher are tight and it remains possible the two sides could work out an agreement if that's the result they want.
But for a young team that has devoted itself to bringing along young players and giving them opportunities to succeed, there's simply no room for a $10 million veteran corner who never provided the return on investment that Fisher once hoped.
By Nick Wagoner
http://espn.go.com/blog/st-louis-rams/post/_/id/6484/a-finnegan-move-was-inevitable
The St. Louis Rams have not released cornerback Cortland Finnegan yet but the day is coming soon as the team informed him Wednesday. Whether Finnegan returns to the Rams or not in 2014 remains to be seen but the pending move should come as no surprise to anyone paying even a little bit of attention.
Rams coach Jeff Fisher expressed optimism that the team would bring Finnegan back at last month's NFL scouting combine but what was left unsaid at the time was how much the team would be paying him if he did return. Either way, it was pretty obvious the Rams weren't going to bring Finnegan back at his scheduled $10 million cap hit in 2014.
Put simply, Finnegan never performed like the $50 million corner the team signed him to be. He got off to a hot start as a Ram, posting interceptions in his first three games with the team. From there, Finnegan's first two years in St. Louis were marred by injury and a lack of productivity.
Toward the end of the 2012 season, Finnegan battled a hamstring injury which limited him to a nickel corner role. He appeared to get past it but was looked like he had lost a step early in 2013 before a fractured orbital bone ended his season after seven games in which he struggled mightily.
In two seasons with the Rams, Finnegan played 23 games with 128 tackles, a sack, a forced fumble and four interceptions.
It's possible that the door hasn't completely closed on Finnegan's time in St. Louis. He was a valuable piece of the locker room, not only for the young corners but for the young team as a whole. He and Fisher are tight and it remains possible the two sides could work out an agreement if that's the result they want.
But for a young team that has devoted itself to bringing along young players and giving them opportunities to succeed, there's simply no room for a $10 million veteran corner who never provided the return on investment that Fisher once hoped.
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Yeah, same thing that happened with Dunbar last year. Maybe they'll bring him back at a friendlier salary.
If not, meh. I don't care that much.
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Rams inform Finnegan he will be released--UPDATED
• By Jim Thomas
http://www.stltoday.com/sports/foot...e-8366-20461ec70406.html#.UxeWTix6FHw.twitter
Cortland Finnegan's tenure in St. Louis is over after just two seasons with the Rams. Within the past 24 hours, coach Jeff Fisher and executive vice president Kevin Demoff spoke with Finnegan, both informing him that he was being released.
The official paperwork has not yet been sent to the NFL office, but will within the next week.
As soon as that happens, Finnegan's release will save the Rams $4 million in immediate salary cap money. He was due to make $6 million in base salary, plus a $3 million signing bonus due the third day of the league year (or by March 13), and count $10 million against this year's Rams salary cap.
The signing bonus of $3 million is guaranteed, but it includes offset language. In other words, if Finnegan signs with another team for $2 million this year, the Rams get $2 million in additional cap space. If he signs for $1 million with another team, the Rams get $1 million of cap space back. Etc., up to a maximum of the $3 million.
Finnegan "broke" the news himself on his Twitter account this afternoon:
"St. Louis thank you for your letting me play for a classy franchise and coach fish nothing but love thank you all. #Motivation"
Fisher later told the Post-Dispatch that the team remains interested in re-signing Finnegan at a later date.
"We've expressed interest in him coming back to our football team," Fisher said. "We appreciate what he's done for us. I know he was personally disappointed the way last year ended up for us. But as we told him, he can help win football games for us next year."
Implied but not stated is the fact that that will happen only at a much lower rate than his soon to be terminated contract. Compounding matters is the fact that Finnegan currently does not have an agent.
Finnegan was brought in to be a cornerstone of the Rams' defense in 2012 _ the first free agency period for Fisher. He started out with a bang, with an interception in the Rams' first three games of 2012.
But his played leveled off late in the season when Finnegan was bothered by a nagging leg injury. He got off to a poor start in 2013 and then suffered a fractured orbital in Game 4 against San Francisco.
After missing several games, he returned to the lineup, but still suffered from blurred vision and other symptoms, and eventually was placed on the season-ending injured reserve list. The eye injury did no require surgery.
• By Jim Thomas
http://www.stltoday.com/sports/foot...e-8366-20461ec70406.html#.UxeWTix6FHw.twitter
Cortland Finnegan's tenure in St. Louis is over after just two seasons with the Rams. Within the past 24 hours, coach Jeff Fisher and executive vice president Kevin Demoff spoke with Finnegan, both informing him that he was being released.
The official paperwork has not yet been sent to the NFL office, but will within the next week.
As soon as that happens, Finnegan's release will save the Rams $4 million in immediate salary cap money. He was due to make $6 million in base salary, plus a $3 million signing bonus due the third day of the league year (or by March 13), and count $10 million against this year's Rams salary cap.
The signing bonus of $3 million is guaranteed, but it includes offset language. In other words, if Finnegan signs with another team for $2 million this year, the Rams get $2 million in additional cap space. If he signs for $1 million with another team, the Rams get $1 million of cap space back. Etc., up to a maximum of the $3 million.
Finnegan "broke" the news himself on his Twitter account this afternoon:
"St. Louis thank you for your letting me play for a classy franchise and coach fish nothing but love thank you all. #Motivation"
Fisher later told the Post-Dispatch that the team remains interested in re-signing Finnegan at a later date.
"We've expressed interest in him coming back to our football team," Fisher said. "We appreciate what he's done for us. I know he was personally disappointed the way last year ended up for us. But as we told him, he can help win football games for us next year."
Implied but not stated is the fact that that will happen only at a much lower rate than his soon to be terminated contract. Compounding matters is the fact that Finnegan currently does not have an agent.
Finnegan was brought in to be a cornerstone of the Rams' defense in 2012 _ the first free agency period for Fisher. He started out with a bang, with an interception in the Rams' first three games of 2012.
But his played leveled off late in the season when Finnegan was bothered by a nagging leg injury. He got off to a poor start in 2013 and then suffered a fractured orbital in Game 4 against San Francisco.
After missing several games, he returned to the lineup, but still suffered from blurred vision and other symptoms, and eventually was placed on the season-ending injured reserve list. The eye injury did no require surgery.
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Interesting fact in bold above. I seem to remember Finny telling Jake Long that there was no other coach he'd want to play for than Fisher when Long was thinking of signing a FA contract with us. Makes you wonder if maybe he's considering retirement.
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He's clearly not the worst corner in the league. He had an injury riddled very short season in which he didn't perform well...
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