Levi Jones to visit Seattle
Could this be insurance in case Big Walt isn't 100%?
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Heh.
I was just about to post this. ;)
Levi, if he can pass a physical, could be a great addition on the cheap. An injury-risk, for sure, but the upside is an all-pro tackle.
WAT
Man, Ruskell is hitting home-run after home-run this offseason, isn’t he?
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Pure depth move.
Like the WR corps, he doesn’t want the O-line to be completely decimated like it was last year.
Sam Bradford, future Seattle Seahawk.
And kickass depth too.
Levi Jones as tackle depth over Tom Ashworth? Hell fucking yes.
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by Fearless Frog on May 6, 2009 7:13 PM PDT up reply actions
Can we afford this?
We’ve got to be stretching the wallet pretty thin by this point.
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Theres money to be saved by cutting Wahle I think
I think this says more about Wahle than Walt since they already have a back up plan for him.
While there is some money to be saved by cutting Wahle...
What would be gained by cutting the only natural left guard on the team?
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by Fearless Frog on May 6, 2009 7:37 PM PDT up reply actions
If he can't play.
Signing Levi would open up opportunities for Willis to play gaurd, adding to depth at the position.
Isn't Willis already slated to be right guard?
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by Fearless Frog on May 6, 2009 8:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Sims was the starter last year
it’s a new coaching staff so maybe that will change, maybe not.
Thinking about this some more I don’t think this is about Wahle but I do think thats where they’d get the money for Levi. Wahle’s got a recurring shoulder injury that he’s not back from yet, he showed signs of decline when he was healthy, the coaches put Unger at LG to learn the position and the team can save money by cutting him. I don’t think he’s long for this team.
Honestly, I don't think Sims is going to factor in much.
While he may have potential, he certainly isn’t good enough that he’s going to be gifted a starting job over the big man they just paid.
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by Fearless Frog on May 7, 2009 12:09 PM PDT up reply actions
About a thousand penalty yards.
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by Wayward Llama on May 6, 2009 8:34 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
I'm just throwing up guesses here.
But since Leroy is no longer running the risk of suffocating nearly 9 million of this season’s cap, we have a bit more money to spend since we spread out his first immediate payday over the next two seasons. That explains how we had the money to sign Lucas and Griffith to cheap deals.
Levi Jones has to realize even though he’s talented, he’s been tremendously injury prone. Teams aren’t going to be clamoring to sign him, especially this late into the offseason. Play this incorrectly and he could LeCharles Bentley himself out of the league. He’ll want a deal with some immediate gratification since he knows long-term security is a luxury likely not going to be awarded to him. Maybe we can afford to give him something like 4.5 mill off the bat, so his along with Leroy’s frontloaded costs are addressed before Curry’s backloaded one kicks in?
This is all purely speculation, provided he even signs here. PFT says along with us, the Lions, Bills, and Broncos are interested too. I’m assuming the Lions and Bills will offer him a starting job, while the Broncos are also looking for depth.
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by Fearless Frog on May 6, 2009 7:36 PM PDT up reply actions
He is affordable.
His deal last year with Cincy was for $3M plus bonus money. My guess is they get him with a contract like Lucas’s, $2M plus incentives for starts and games played. They will cut Olindo Mare. We don’t need two kickers. That saves about $1.6 off the cap. With Walter close to the end of the line he should be excited about the opportunity to regain a starting job and possibly go deep into the playoffs with a good team.
Cut Mare?
Might as well gift the opponents 6 points rather than punt. God, will they please get rid of Coutu already?
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by Fearless Frog on May 7, 2009 12:10 PM PDT up reply actions
No one said that.
People are pretty sure that is what the FO is going to do. Coutu was kept around through all of last year so he would one day be our starting kicker. The most common explanation for the FO’s interest in Coutu is that he is a cheap long term solution that gives stability to our S/T unit. He is also perceived to be a very accurate kicker. It has been mentioned that in-game kicking accuracy doesn’t correlate very well from season to season nearly as much as touchback% on kickoffs. This doesn’t mean it is impossible for one guy to be a much more accurate kicker than another, just that it is hard to tell and looks can deceiving.
An opportunity?
To regain a starting job at LT? Maybe if all the moons in the universe align together at once. I wouldn’t be too excited about a guy with a history of injury problems and two bad knees protecting Hass’ blindside when he’s coming off a back injury himself.
I'm glad the Hawks get no media attention/NFL fan love. Makes it so much more fun when we win.
Right tackle.
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by Fearless Frog on May 7, 2009 12:11 PM PDT up reply actions
I look at this like renting a broken down '89 chevy as insurance against my '84 chevy
that is reaching the point of not being worth fixing anymore. Does it really buy us much insurance??? Is Levi even less likely to be healthy enough to play than Walt? And what happened to the much advertised Locklear plan?
Some of the concern might be allayed with
a thorough physical. I have my doubts the guy would be able to pass one, notwithstanding his agent’s claims.
But if he does, it’s about value, of course. There’s a price which will make sense, and several that won’t.
And in any case,
what are the chances of two players at the same position getting injured in one year?
Oh, right.
We said that about Pork Chop too.
Funny how these things work out; he was one of the few consistently healthy linemen we had last season.
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Put up your swords. You know not what you do."
by Fearless Frog on May 7, 2009 12:12 PM PDT up reply actions
If there's money
If there’s money available to the team under the salary cap spend it. I’m sure Paul Allen will be fine without the 1.5-2.5 mil this guy would cost and I can’t imagine better insurance than an experienced tackle with probowl credentials. Yeah, there are injury concerns. But an experienced tackle with injury concerns is better than a practice-squad scrub. The fact is, that scrub will be there anyway so I see this as a ‘nothing to lose’ proposition.
The report of Levi's visit to Seattle is now being disputed.
Per the TNT
Team sources on Thursday disputed an earlier report that recently released Cincinnati Bengals offensive tackle Levi Jones was scheduled for a visit this week.
Of course they did. The report said “next week”
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