Seahawks Agree To Deal With TE Chris Baker
by BrianL on Mar 13, 2010 3:14 PM PST
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PrintTwo years, $4.7 million says Man Perm. Over half of the total contract will be paid in the first year.
What do you do when you can't sign Ben Watson? Sign his backup. Baker was with the Patriots last season and with the Jets for the previous seven. As O'Neil points out, offensive coordinator Jeremy Bates used a number of two TE sets in the passing game during his stint in Denver. Adding Baker provides a bit more depth on the roster should that be the direction Bates wishes to go.
Chris Baker caught 14 passes for 142 yards and two touchdowns with New England last season. Three seasons ago he caught 41 passes with the Jets. He's by no means a prolific receiver, but perhaps he's a serviceable target for whoever is under center.
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I mean, I guess this is good.
We need a better 2nd TE than Cameron Morrah apparently.
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I thought that was John Owens.
Unless, of course, you’re counting Carlson as a sixth lineman.
by DrunkAmerican on Mar 13, 2010 3:27 PM PST up reply actions
I think this signing pretty much spells the end of John Owens.
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by Wayward Llama on Mar 13, 2010 3:29 PM PST up reply actions
But yeah I pretty much forgot about him anyway.
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by Wayward Llama on Mar 13, 2010 3:30 PM PST up reply actions
Not really
If they’re planning to run a lot of 2 TE sets, they obviously need 3 TEs on the roster. Baker is not a blocking specialist like Owens, thus we still need to keep him.
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I remember JM writing something about Owens
when we brought him in. Something along the lines of Owens is a rush blocker, which isn’t as important in the NFL was a receiving threat. Because the pass game is so much more important to winning a game. Well, Baker is a pass catching TE. That’s a good thing. Better then us bringing in another rush blocking TE.
Now with more lemon bars!
TE goodness
I am good with short and reasonably priced pick ups. But this guy is an aging backup, I wonder if hes got any quicks left.
by paul2 on Mar 13, 2010 6:36 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
Aging?
30 is hardly aging…
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Perhaps
But I doubt a backup TE will see such a sharp decline over 2 years. It’s not like he’s been worn down by a heavy workload.
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At age 30 -- even without much wear and tear --
many TEs have lost enough speed, strength, and resilience due to natural aging.
He was solid with the Jets
good enough as a blocker and receiver.
Give me an offensive line or give me death!
by Generzal Zod on Mar 15, 2010 12:10 AM PDT up reply actions
Either Owens goes or Morrah goes
Possibly both with Morrah off to the PS.
The Seattle Seahawks offense is driving......right into a brick wall at the end of the tunnel.
A little off-topic...
But it sounded like both the Hawks and Cardinals were meeting with both D. Anderson and C. Whitehurst, with each team conceivably getting one of them. I’m curious to know which one people would rather have if that is the case.
by Big E-Z on Mar 13, 2010 6:20 PM PST via mobile reply actions
I'm more interested in Whitehurst.
Because I already know what Anderson can do, and it doesn’t make me salivate.
Whitehurst might be a bit expensive, though. If he costs us a pick above 4th (this year or next) I’m going to expect a lot out of him.
If Anderson is cheap, I’d be OK with him as one of three QB’s on the roster. If Matt goes down, Anderson might help us keep from nose-diving completely. It’s hard to tell what will happen in the draft, but I’d like to see a rookie in there as well.
It's what happens when the cascading style sheet mysteriously disappears
It’s working for me again… if anyone can read this and is still getting the retro layout, force-refresh with Control-F5.
As he stated elsewhere
He’s waiting until the B-Marsh thing resolves to spotlight receivers. But I’m sure he’ll watch plenty of Benn.
inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Is it just me, or is $4.7 million not a very good price for a mediocre tight end?
I mean, I know it’s an uncapped year and most of the contract applies to this year, but still, was there that much competition for his services, and is he that much of an upgrade at the cornerstone position of backup TE?
It's not a great price, but it is about par for a free agent tight end.
Think, we could be locked into paying Daniel Graham $6.65 million.
Think we could have paid crazy money to Graham and not drafted John Carlson
As I’m sure you — but maybe not everyone reading the blog — recall, Seattle aggressively pursued Graham in the offseason preceding the 2007 season but he signed with Denver in a bidding war. Seattle and Denver also duked it out over Patrick Kerney in the same offseason…
I think it’s safe to say that if we had ‘won’ the services of Graham that we would be much less likely to move up in the 2nd to draft Carlson in 2008. Carlson is one of the best young tight-ends in the league. Graham is just the most overpaid.
Interestingly, Daniel Graham also impacts on Seahawks history from the 2002 draft. Apparently the Hawks had targetted with our first round pick at 24. But the Patriots snagged him. So we took Jerramy Stevens instead. Nuff said.
I'm still rankled by that.
Patriots tend to grab the players I want, like Patrick Chung. Fuckers.
Talents that I covet:
Ndamukong Suh, Gerald McCoy, Sam Bradford, Mike Iupati, Golden Tate, Earl Thomas, and Freddie Barnes
by Carl Shinyama on Mar 14, 2010 1:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Just seems weird, nothing in particular, just the NFL
What’s Carlson making? 500,000$? Gotta be weird when your backup’s making five times as much
Decent move
As long as Baker stays healthy, he can’t help but be an upgrade over what we had on the depth chart.
I vote for...
a Charlie Whitehurst write up from John. Who’s with me? I know next to nothing about this guy and as such am scratching my head over Seattle’s interest.
What is there to know about him?
He was pretty good in college and gave an offense to school that usually only runs the ball and is known for defense. He sat behind Phillip Rivers for 3 years.
Give me an offensive line or give me death!
by Generzal Zod on Mar 15, 2010 12:08 AM PDT up reply actions
since there might be a decision made
in the next two days, I say we wait and see what happens, and if they sign him, John will probably be all over a Whitehurst write-up like white on rice…or White on Hurst…or something.
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