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Chautauqua Mafia

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  1. bringing in takeo, london, and posey has nothing to do with the discussion because we're talking about retaining younger players.........

     

    you just pointed to the eagles' strategy, but you only pointed to half of it.........the other half is ripping up contracts of younger players BEFORE they have become established stars in the league and giving them healthy signing bonuses to do so.........this means you don't overpay for your younger players, but you still keep them around...........TD has not shown the balls to do that as of yet, letting guys get to free agency and allowing there value to explode........if you want to let vets go because "they're greedy", you need to sign your younger players to longer deals and have them ready to step in.........that is the point.........

     

    i never said anything about screwing up the cap over one player.......i'm all for showing faith in players and giving them new deals BEFORE the carrot of free agency gets to close.........that is what the eagles do, and i think it works just fine........

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    The Eagles drafted an ENTIRE SECONDARY one year (two years ago?) with the express and intent purpose of dropping Vincent, Taylor and one other guy whose name escapes me.

     

    TD has done this as well (McGee/Winfield being one example). Also, TD has shown the nutz to hold the line on the likes of Wiley, Cowart and Winfield and the net result is that our D is for the better.

     

    Clements WILL get done, and I'm willing to bet it is on TD's terms.

  2. thank you-

     

    Smart teams don't overpay for over-the-hill ego-maniacs.

     

    Clements is the smart move because there is a high probability he will play out the entire term of his contract and the team will get full value.

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    And pat will not. Thank you, sir, for having a brain. It seems liek some around here have forgotten the lessons of the Butler era.

  3. we have not applied that strategy with peerless, winfield, or jennings......and i think we'll see the same thing happen with clements.......as a result, we need to retain more of our older players........

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    Right. We didn't resign Moulds. We didn't bring in Takeo, London or Posey, either.

     

    And NO, they'll not let Nate go. They'd be nuts to.

     

    But take this to heart: you can NOT screw the cap for the sake of one player, no matter how important that one player is.

  4. This is starting to piss me off considering how close we were, i mean how in teh hell can we keep leads for a rookie qb when losing a key member of our defense that was huge (literally) for us last year? If TD lets Williams go, its sending a message to the fans taht next year is a wash.

     

    As much as i hate Bledsoe, im beginning to think JP was a major mistake, this kid looked like a scared teenager going to his first dance out there last season, but at least with a shut down defense he wouldnt have much pressure to always score.

     

    I think TD is f...king up big time and destroying a top notch defense....its one thing to get rid of bledsoe but we need fat pat badly and to not resign him is a mistake taht we will regret!

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    Adjust your diaper, you're leaking.

  5. Since GG has decided not to come back and explain this great mystery of life to us, maybe what he's saying is...

     

    "Since John Clayton reported it, it probably won't come true...therefore Henry will instead be traded to San Fran??" 

     

    But I haven't heard any Henry to San Fran rumors, so that's probably not it.  This is quite a code he's left for us to crack.

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    Wow, and it only took 14 responses.

     

    :devil:

  6. i love that show, dick van dyke show.  i could watch it all day.  that mtm was such a freaking hottie on that show, never thought she was that attractive in her later shows, but man oh man she is smoking on the dvd show.  that show was and is so funny and well written!

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    Wow that must be some goooooood shiite. Share?

     

    ;)

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