Lurker Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 who is to say $3 mil. is a lot of money to pay a safety or not -- what objective standard do we use? How about this one... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dean Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 Donte will make almost $3 mil. ($2.9 something) this season. Langston Walker will make about $5.4-8 mil. Who is more valuable to you every play? Are you going to address the botched Jacobs tackle, not making players around you better, the lack of pressure up front, why the BIlls only had 24 sacks last season, or anything else in the post? Or are you simply going to cherry pick (ala a Ray Sheppard goal) one area of my post -- as you did -- and call it a day? Rather bold of you to say "and you don't know what you are talking about" -- when you only nip at one area of the post with a subjective answer (i.e., who is to say $3 mil. is a lot of money to pay a safety or not -- what objective standard do we use?). Whitner's salary in 2009 is exactly as I posted, $2,355,000. His hit against the cash-to-cap is almost $3 million. That isn't high for your starting SS or FS, especially one that can play either, or CB in the nickel and dime, as he has done often in his time with the Bills. Whitner, like EVERY other NFL player has missed a tackle, or two, in his career. He rarely takes bad angles, and you have found one play where he did. Bravo! Talk about cherry picking. The mere fact that Whitner has played out of position for much of his Bills career (adapting to do whatever the Bills need him to do), and the defensive backfield has remains strong, despite injuries to the DBs and a poor pass rush, suggests Donte is making the players around him better. If you judge a DB by interceptions, then Whitner isn't your guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dean Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 How about this one... That was from last year, when Whitner's salary was a little bit higher than it is for 2009. Still, as you can see, he is a relative bargain, at the position. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurker Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 That was from last year, when Whitner's salary was a little bit higher than it is for 2009. Still, as you can see, he is a relative bargain, at the position. Yes, that was my point. There are quite a few safeties making more than DW, some of whom are not as good (who the hell is Clinton Hart?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dean Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 Yes, that was my point. There are quite a few safeties making more than DW, some of whom are not as good (who the hell is Clinton Hart?). Yes, I figured that was your point. I was pointing it out to the "expert" who has mis-stated his salary, and focuses on one bad play... then talks about cherry-picking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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