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He’s only as good as the tolerant massage therapist who handles his qb. (I hope Watson gets a year and the Browns suffer…JMO)
 
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OldSchool said:
Njoku isn't good and doesn't deserve this money. I'm not implying that Hooper is worth this money either by linking that tweet. But the value based on production not just this year but throughout their careers to me makes Hooper a much better value signing than Njoku. There is way in any reality that David Njoku should be the 4th highest paid TE in the game. I remember people around here wanting the Rams to spend money on him, thank goodness we didn't give him this contract.


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I’m confident in stating Njoku is no where near a top 5 TE. I’m curious as to why the Browns felt they needed to pay him $14m/year?
 
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Rams Franchise is worth 4.8 billion.. give AD99 1% per year
 
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OldSchool said:
Also way too much money


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I watched that movie about him. He wasn't that bright when he was young, he's not that bright now. But read my other comment and see why he may get what he wants
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I’m confident in stating Njoku is no where near a top 5 TE. I’m curious as to why the Browns felt they needed to pay him $14m/year?
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It seams for some teams that when the cap jumps up, front offices lack foresight. They see the cap increases coming ahead and don't have that cap space planned for in future contracts so they think they are flush with money and hand out stupid contracts, screwing up the positional pay scale along the way. If Milky is worth 14 million a year what is Melted worth?

Hopefully the Chiefs refusal to pay Hill the big money doesn't mean that they will be foolish enough to make Brown the highest paid left tackle in the game like he wishes. He's not the best left tackle in the game. He may not be the best right tackle in the game.
 
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As for Njoku, it's almost like the Browns were reading this site Lol. I was hugely supportive of bringing on Njoku. Why? Well, because Cleveland wasnt using him at all, kind of relegated him to 3rd TE and he was going in to a contract year. Seemed logical that he would have been trade bait. However "logical" doesnt appear to be in the Browns team building lexicon. Despite my "pounding the table" for him, I thought 10-11 mill per year would be max, this contract is ridiculous.
Heck, he may be worth it, but if he is/was, then why the heck did they leave him on the bench?? So Browns.....
 
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As for Njoku, it's almost like the Browns were reading this site Lol. I was hugely supportive of bringing on Njoku. Why? Well, because Cleveland wasnt using him at all, kind of relegated him to 3rd TE and he was going in to a contract year. Seemed logical that he would have been trade bait. However "logical" doesnt appear to be in the Browns team building lexicon. Despite my "pounding the table" for him, I thought 10-11 mill per year would be max, this contract is ridiculous.
Heck, he may be worth it, but if he is/was, then why the heck did they leave him on the bench?? So Browns.....
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The best part is they couldn't pay Landry $15.1 million so they waived him only to pay a TE they didn't use and didn't do anything of not but hey they saved $1 million aav on that aside from the $1.5 million dead money from Landry.
 
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Elmgrovegnome said:
I watched that movie about him. He wasn't that bright when he was young, he's not that bright now.
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Careful with the 'bright' comment. If you were thinking about the Blind Side, that was Michael Oher.

Orlando Brown's father ("Zeus"!) was a pretty well-known, long-time NFL player.
 
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jjab360 said:
I might be off base here, but I can't help but feel like you've mixed up Orlando Brown Jr with Michael Oher lol
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Allen2McVay said:
Careful with the 'bright' comment. If you were thinking about the Blind Side, that was Michael Oher.

Orlando Brown's father ("Zeus"!) was a pretty well-known, long-time NFL player.
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It turns out I'm not so bright either. All of these years I thought that was about Orlando Brown.
 
payote75 said:
Exactly well said and who should know this better than us Rams fans who are usually on the receiving end of the player for picks lol
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And who says you can't trade those new first rounders for a 26 yr old star player? Or use those picks to trade up for a potential franchise caliber player near the top of the draft who is cheap?
 
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PhillyRam said:
And who says you can't trade those new first rounders for a 26 yr old star player? Or use those picks to trade up for a potential franchise caliber player near the top of the draft who is cheap?
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Nobody but I choose AD.
 
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I suppose I did not express my thoughts clearly enough in one of my earlier posts. Yes I think they can clear cap space with Kupp and AD's contract. That said when you factor in OBJ and their draft picks how much is left is debatable. I don't think it's going to be as much as some think. There are limits when kicking the financial can down the road.

Signing an edge will be a $10-$17M cap hit over and above signing OBJ to a multi-year deal and their draft picks. Their remaining cap should about cover the draft picks, but OBJ is going to need a legit contract of at least 3 years. They also will need about $4-$5M in cap space to start the season with for contingencies. I think they need to clear around $15M- $20M more to get everything done. If they are targeting someone like Hunter it will require the Vikings to eat a large chunk of his cap hit so they will want it post June 1. Also, I think they will want a player probably a WR like Jefferson. The question is do the Rams think that Benny Sko, Harris and Tutu can carry the load as #3 WR until December? To get a quality edge I think they would be willing to roll the dice with their WRs. Apparently Tutu is looking good in OTAs.

Anyway I think we will find out fairly quickly this coming week.
 
Merlin said:
As good as AD is you do not need a dominant 3T to win a Super Bowl. Rams should of course try to accommodate him and I am confident they are doing that. But at some point he's a 3T. Greatest ever, yes. But I think there's a value point even with him.
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That’s kinda the rub, isn’t it? The Rams could be as good without AD IF they had better players at other positions. That is to say, guys whose numbers wouldn’t disappear without AD around.

To do that, get 2-4 top end players to make that defense as good, how much would it cost? The same, more? I honestly have no idea—too many variables to consider.

But there’s the other side, too. Paying AD is also getting more from the other players as well. At what point is it a wash? When is it counterproductive?

Paying AD now, running it back, and THEN. Putting him on the market while he’s still under a new contract would be the scenario I might consider; however, at that point, the retirement talk definitely gets real.
 
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fanotodd said:
That’s how they did it with a rookie QB named Rothlesberger. I think he only lost one game that year.
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Unfortunately for them, the only game he lost was the AFC Championship game. 14-0 going in to that game. (13-0 reg season, 1-0 playoffs)
 
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