OT - Hamlin agrees to 6-year deal
by phatjeremy on Jul 15, 2008 1:04 PM CDT
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PrintThe Dallas Cowboys and Pro Bowl safety Ken Hamlin have agreed to a six-year, $39 million contract, ESPN's Ed Werder reports.
Hamlin
Hamlin, the Cowboys' franchise player, received $15 million in guaranteed money including a $9 million signing bonus.
The deal was completed before Tuesday's 4 p.m. ET deadline for teams to finalize long-term deals with franchised players.
Hamlin made his first Pro Bowl during the Cowboys' 13-3 season. He finished with 62 tackles and five interceptions, one behind team leader Anthony Henry.
Awesome. Key piece to the Cowboy's success
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i am sure i am not......
...... the only one that will see this and think Hamilton! hahaha
by blueballlefty on Jul 15, 2008 1:08 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
i did
Warner Madrigal is the Rangers most underrated prospect by a longshot; he SHOULD be be closing games within 3 years IMO. Matt Harrison is underrated too.
Yep I did too
I'm undefeated in fights. Have I been in any? No. Thats because people know my f'ing status. Don't mess with the elite. - Miles
by Dirk Diggler on Jul 15, 2008 1:12 PM CDT up reply actions
haha + 20,000,000 a year
me too!
Milly I have no choice but to nickname you "The Laborer".
Every time I see you on the mound you're laboring through the inning.
You sure as hell don't labor when you hear Dunkin Donuts is closing in
15 minutes, sat there with a chocolate eclair with 5 minutes to spare.
That's exactly what I thought
at first glance.
"If I had ovaries, fallopian tubes, and a uterus...I'd have Josh Hamilton's baby"
-Adam J. Morris
by HamiltontheBeast on Jul 15, 2008 6:04 PM CDT up reply actions
+9
"I’ll say something that doesn’t need context: anyone who is a Mariner’s fan is a douchebag." - FuturePants
by inactive lsb user on Jul 16, 2008 12:33 AM CDT up reply actions
I saw it and thought it was talking about
a childhood friend of mine named Jason Hamlin. I haven’t heard anything about him in about 15 years…thought maybe he took up a sport and signed a contract with somebody.
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I was surprised
that he got that much, especially guaranteed. It makes me a little sick to think about how much they’re paying their safeties. I guess that’s more because of Williams than Hamlin though.
You hear that door closing....
Thats the door to R.Williams future as a Dallas Cowboys.
He will probably stay on the team this year, but I expect him to be released next year, when he will be (from what I heard) a minimal cap hit.
why are you surprised?
that’s the norm for a player like him. Jerry once again did a great job in another offseason.
Josh Hamilton is better than you.
I suspect that we’ll have a bit of a hard time agreeing upon what “a player like him” is, but I just don’t think that he’s one of the handful of most valuable safeties in the league, which is how they’ll be paying him.
I think that Jerry had a pretty solid offseason, especially by his standards. But I don’t see how he can’t be held responsible for not upgrading three of the four weakest positions (receiver, safety, corner and offensive line) on the team. I am very fearful that we’re going to be looking back some time this fall and wondering “how in the world did they think that they could afford to do nothing at receiver in the offseason?” Still, it’s not very often, under any circumstance, that you upgrade corner in one spring like he did, especially for the price that he did.
by Brett Perryman on Jul 15, 2008 4:46 PM CDT up reply actions
what
How was the offensive line one of our weakest positions? And we did upgrade the corner position by adding Adam Jones and Micheal Jenkins. They seem to have plenty of faith in Crayton, Hurd, and Austin to complement TO. And we are phasing out Roy Williams in defensive packages and the emergence of Patrick Watkins will help the safety position. Plus we will be playing a corner back there on passing packages.
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
How was the offensive line one of our weakest positions?
I’ll save that for last.
And we did upgrade the corner position by adding Adam Jones and Micheal Jenkins.
Did you see that I said three of the four weakest positions? Or that I said “Still, it’s not very often, under any circumstance, that you upgrade corner in one spring like he did, especially for the price that he did.”
They seem to have plenty of faith in Crayton, Hurd, and Austin to complement TO.
They only seem to have that faith because they didn’t do anything. By the same logic, bad teams who do little in the offseason seem to have faith in their teams. Does that make them right? Jerry has said recently that he would have liked to address receiver, but just didn’t have the opportunity that he saw as making it worthwhile (which I do somewhat understand).
Back to the line, the team did not run the ball consistently, period. It wasn’t a very strong running offense. It couldn’t run the ball in the second half against the Giants. They did protect well, although it was amazing how they went from being really bad in protection to really good the instant that Romo took over for Bledsoe in 2006. They would have liked to have hadded a quality lineman and said as much. Left guard could really stand to be upgraded, and right tackle isn’t a bad spot, but doesn’t run block particularly well.
by Brett Perryman on Jul 15, 2008 5:25 PM CDT up reply actions
Well
You’re paying Flo, Gurode, and Davis. Did you expect them to break the bank five times on the line?
I also thought the running game was enough of a threat. If anything, Garrett abandoned too early or didn’t balance enough. Looking forward to the tandem without Julie this year.
"I’ll say something that doesn’t need context: anyone who is a Mariner’s fan is a douchebag." - FuturePants
by inactive lsb user on Jul 16, 2008 12:42 AM CDT up reply actions
Are we going to have any money left for Ware?
Now that TO is taken care of that’s all I really care about….
Plaschke: Scioscia, the former Dodgers catcher, is the model manager who has created an atmosphere of winning.
Junior:It's that simple. Mike Scioscia brings a Glade Plug-In labeled "Winning™" into the clubhouse and everyone who breathes it in gains 15 points in average.
gagree
no way in hell they let him get away.
I'm undefeated in fights. Have I been in any? No. Thats because people know my f'ing status. Don't mess with the elite. - Miles
by Dirk Diggler on Jul 15, 2008 2:05 PM CDT up reply actions
Just as a matter of survival
they can now franchise him, I believe. I think that there will be money, but if there isn’t, they will just have to cut/renegotiate people.
by Brett Perryman on Jul 15, 2008 2:03 PM CDT up reply actions
Ware is under control through 2009
Leonard Davis’ restructured contract will save the Boys 7-8 million in 2009. Roy Williams (the safety) will likely be gone by then too. Anthony Henry and Greg Ellis are also candidates to be gone. Then factor in a likely uncapped 2010 and they will have no problem making D Ware one of the highest paid players in the league…as he should be.
"Here comes the version of Benoit that lets the other team put it out of reach. I hate that version."
-Athos
Salary Cap
I thought I read somewhere that the salary cap is going away in 2 years. Is that true? If so there is a lot of money left for next year when Roy Williams (The Lions WR) is a free agent and to get Ware re-signed.
I think there is talk
of an uncapped year in like 2010.
I’ll trust Stephen Jones on what he is doing.
The last year of the current agreement
is scheduled to be an uncapped year. They’ll negotiate a new one after that, and I think that there is always the possibility that that year gets re-capped (though I could be wrong about that).
by Brett Perryman on Jul 15, 2008 2:32 PM CDT up reply actions
you're right
As it stands right now it is an uncapped year however I believe if they come to an agreement by the end of the 09 season then it goes back to being a capped season.
Having said all that, cap or no cap I trust Jerry and Stephen more than any other owner and president to find a way to make things work under that cap. They have been absolute geniouses at doing so. Part of it is signing guys early on. Part of it is having the balls to let guys walk and cut guys. But they have been and look to be in very good cap situations for the next several years down the road
Bryan Smith (12:17:17 PM PT): Justin Smoak and Josh Hamilton. The AL West might just have found their Bash Brothers, v. 2.0.
Roy Williams (Lions)
I think we need to find a way to get him here this year. I would trade a # 1 for him I believe this is our year. Imagine Roy Williams, TO and Jason Witten together with Barber in the back field. Our Offense would match our defense.
Yawn...
When I first glanced at the fanposts I thought it said Hamilton though.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."-Socrates
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