OT - Hamlin agrees to 6-year deal

by phatjeremy on Jul 15, 2008 1:04 PM CDT

The 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 1 recs

ha...didn't think of that

by phatjeremy on Jul 15, 2008 1:10 PM CDT up 0 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.

by dstar442005 on Jul 15, 2008 1:10 PM CDT up 0 recs

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 0 recs

Thats

what I thought too.

by coolaid on Jul 15, 2008 1:13 PM CDT up 0 recs

me too

"Sooner or later, prospects kill you, because you hang onto them." - Greggo, 11/22/2005

by Agreen07 on Jul 15, 2008 1:19 PM CDT up 0 recs

ditto

"Do they know who I am? Do they know my status? Thats what I thought."
-Miles 6/21/08

.501 or bust!

by Jayslick on Jul 15, 2008 2:32 PM CDT up 0 recs

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.

by LAMuscleFag on Jul 15, 2008 3:49 PM CDT up 0 recs

That's exactly what I thought

at first glance.

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by HamiltontheBeast on Jul 15, 2008 6:04 PM CDT up 0 recs

+9

"I’ll say something that doesn’t need context: anyone who is a Mariner’s fan is a douchebag." - FuturePants

by Chase Irwin on Jul 16, 2008 12:33 AM CDT up 0 recs

Ditto

It’s called wish fulfillment.

by rodinuk on Jul 15, 2008 1:19 PM CDT 0 recs

Jerry overpays again

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by Brian Thomas on Jul 15, 2008 1:32 PM CDT 0 recs

Pretty solid deal to me.

by brettgardner on Jul 15, 2008 1:47 PM CDT up 0 recs

I saw this

and I thought Bob Hamelin? He’s still around?

by JBImaknee on Jul 15, 2008 1:41 PM CDT 0 recs

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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by willamos2 on Jul 15, 2008 3:56 PM CDT up 0 recs

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.

by zywica on Jul 15, 2008 1:50 PM CDT 0 recs

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.

by clinton33 on Jul 15, 2008 2:02 PM CDT up 0 recs

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.

by Longhorn on Jul 15, 2008 4:00 PM CDT up 0 recs

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 zywica on Jul 15, 2008 4:46 PM CDT up 0 recs

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.

by bigsteve on Jul 15, 2008 5:14 PM CDT up 0 recs

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 zywica on Jul 15, 2008 5:25 PM CDT up 0 recs

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 Chase Irwin on Jul 16, 2008 12:42 AM CDT up 0 recs

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.

by TheBZA on Jul 15, 2008 2:00 PM CDT 0 recs

no way they let Ware leave...

by clinton33 on Jul 15, 2008 2:02 PM CDT up 0 recs

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 0 recs

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 zywica on Jul 15, 2008 2:03 PM CDT up 0 recs

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

by SaltyDawg on Jul 15, 2008 3:27 PM CDT up 0 recs

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.

by Monkey Brain on Jul 15, 2008 2:25 PM CDT 0 recs

I think there is talk

of an uncapped year in like 2010.

I’ll trust Stephen Jones on what he is doing.

by clinton33 on Jul 15, 2008 2:31 PM CDT up 0 recs

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 zywica on Jul 15, 2008 2:32 PM CDT up 0 recs

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.

by bigsteve on Jul 15, 2008 2:37 PM CDT up 0 recs

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.

by Monkey Brain on Jul 15, 2008 2:45 PM CDT 0 recs