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Reasonable price for Barwin? *UPDATE* Signed by Eagles

What is a reasonable price for Connor Barwin?


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srrono

All Pro
Its crazy every player that I thought would be a high priority seem to not be important this off season. Quin Barwin Casey gone already the only thing this front office is signing is a overpaid has been FA Safety
 

jukhan

Practice Squad
TBH, I've always thought Barwin was highly overrated and i won't lose any sleep if he signs with the eagles.

That being said, i think that Mercilus will do a great job at OLB.
 

htowntexans1985

1st Round Pick
He's gone.


Connor Barwin @
ConnorBarwin98

Crazy couple of days. Hard to put it
into words so I guess I'll let Boyz II
Men do the talking. #BullsOnParade
youtu.be/zDKO6XYXioc
 

Dutchrudder

Hall of Fame
Well, I would have liked to keep him for cheap, but after all the contracts the Eagles gave out so far, I imagine he got paid a lot more than we ever would have given him. Good for him, hope he sacks the crap out of Romo! :D

I can't wait to see how much money he got from them...
 

michaelm

vox nihili
@JasonLaCanfora: Strong deal for Connor Barwin in Philly - 6 years, $36M, with the chance to earn a max of $40M including guarantees.
 

Dutchrudder

Hall of Fame
@McClain_on_NFL
Barwin grew up in in Detroit. He's a Philly kind of guy. Easy to get along with. Good interview. Does lot of charity work, too.


@FakeJohnMcClain
Barwin grew up in Detroit. He's a Philly kind of guy, with an L.A. face and Oakland booty.


Hahhahahahaha
 

Lucky

Ride, Captain, Ride!
Staff member
With Barwin gone, does the whole "Bulls on Parade" thing go away? I know that bothered many here.
 

ObsiWan

Hall of Fame
Contributor's Club
@JasonLaCanfora: Strong deal for Connor Barwin in Philly - 6 years, $36M, with the chance to earn a max of $40M including guarantees.
Congrats Connor. I bear you no ill will for going to "get paid".
Six years, $36 MIL...?? I thought Philly learned their "dream team" lesson a couple of years ago...
:toropalm:
 

EllisUnit

Vote RED!!!
Congrats Connor. I bear you no ill will for going to "get paid".
Six years, $36 MIL...?? I thought Philly learned their "dream team" lesson a couple of years ago...
:toropalm:
haha apparently not......how in the hell do they still have that kind of money ???
 

76Texan

Hall of Fame
Told you guys it's gonna take at least $6M a year; just the going rate, that's all.

A gonner as sure as I've seen one.
 

michaelm

vox nihili
@taniaganguli: Numbers on this Eagles deal are close to what Barwin was offered pre-season by the #Texans. He didn't lose money by waiting.
 

Lucky

Ride, Captain, Ride!
Staff member
Six years, $36 MIL...?? I thought Philly learned their "dream team" lesson a couple of years ago...
Dream Team II? Never as good the 2nd time around.

According to the poll, beerlover thinks Barwin's contract is spot on. BullBlitz thinks the Eagle got a bargain.

Bargain Barwin? Nah.
 

Corrosion

Idealist
Staff member
Reed and Mercilus will likely be the OLB starters and we will draft an ILB early. OLB depth can be found in the middle of the draft.
They have a lot of options to fix both ILB and OLB .... but they did lose a large portion of their LBer corps - James , Dobbins , Barwin.

I think they look at the most dynamic player at either position early then look for value at the other spot later on in the draft.

And that, my friends is TOOOO freakin much for Connor Barwin.
I agree completely .... I wouldnt have given him $3m per. Teams always overpay for experience ....
 

ASidd_1990

Waterboy
@taniaganguli: Numbers on this Eagles deal are close to what Barwin was offered pre-season by the #Texans. He didn't lose money by waiting.
Thank God we didn't come to an agreement with him.

We dodged a bullet on that one!

Also, man Barwin's agent has got to be one of the best if he negotiated this deal.
 

Lucky

Ride, Captain, Ride!
Staff member
@taniaganguli: Numbers on this Eagles deal are close to what Barwin was offered pre-season by the #Texans. He didn't lose money by waiting.
OMG. Barwin would be despised here had he gotten that contract and put up 3 sacks. I don't know if Rick Smith is smarter than we thought. But, he's definitely luckier than we thought.
 

Dutchrudder

Hall of Fame
From Walterfootball:

Eagles sign DE/OLB Connor Barwin (6 years, $36 million): C Grade
I thought Connor Barwin could be available for a reasonable price in free agency based on his down 2012 campaign, but apparently not. I have no idea how he did it, but Barwin obtained $36 million over six years despite registering three sacks last season.

The Eagles had to find either a 4-3 Under strongside linebacker or a third 3-4 rush linebacker - particularly one with experience in the scheme - to rotate with Trent Cole and Brandon Graham. Acquiring Barwin would have been a good idea because he could bounce back to his 11.5-sack level, but not at this price. Philadelphia is definitely buying low.
http://walterfootball.com/freeagents2013recap.php

I feel the same way. They overpaid him for what he has done in the last two years.
 

76Texan

Hall of Fame
OMG. Barwin would be despised here had he gotten that contract and put up 3 sacks. I don't know if Rick Smith is smarter than we thought. But, he's definitely luckier than we thought.
Apparently, Wade Phillips doesn't love Barwin that much, hahahaha!
 

infantrycak

Hall of Fame
LOL - yeah someone needs to trade in their crystal ball since that is nowhere near vet minimum.

That was a good one to let get away.
 

Norg

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Barwin was a bust pick and isnt good bye and shame on u rick for picking dis dude ..... : I
 

EllisUnit

Vote RED!!!
Because steelb said so.
The Eagles do sign a lot of FAs of late for big money.
We sign 2 FA players two years ago and have been in cap hell. The eagles assemble an entire dream team of top tier FAs 2 seasons ago, it didnt work out so they release half of them and are now on dream team version 2.0. WTF
 

Norg

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We sign 2 FA players two years ago and have been in cap hell. The eagles assemble an entire dream team of top tier FAs 2 seasons ago, it didnt work out so they release half of them and are now on dream team version 2.0. WTF


acctually the eagles get alot of free agents loss and release them after two years rinse and repet

and they trade away all there deaft picks
 
@JasonLaCanfora: Strong deal for Connor Barwin in Philly - 6 years, $36M, with the chance to earn a max of $40M including guarantees.
Philly is spending as if there were no cap. I'd hate to see the team in 2 years when they have to jettison players because of these contracts.

Although, most of them are for only a few years and they saved a lot of jack by cutting Nnamdi.
 
We sign 2 FA players two years ago and have been in cap hell. The eagles assemble an entire dream team of top tier FAs 2 seasons ago, it didnt work out so they release half of them and are now on dream team version 2.0. WTF
We didn't release ours. We could have more room if we cut Joseph and Manning.

I still don't consider us in cap hell. We don't have to bring in as many players because we draft better, we keep more of our picks, and win more games. They jettison guys every season because the team is no good and they keep thinking they can buy the right pieces.
 

JCTexan

Hall of Fame
Eagles trying to be Houston East. First they trade for Demeco Ryans, now they sign both Casey & Barwin to expensive contracts.
 

steelbtexan

King of the W. B. Club
Contributor's Club
We sign 2 FA players two years ago and have been in cap hell. The eagles assemble an entire dream team of top tier FAs 2 seasons ago, it didnt work out so they release half of them and are now on dream team version 2.0. WTF
There's a team that knows how to manage their cap.

Good luck Connor, I'm glad you got paid.

Time to draft Kruegers little brother Joe Krueger.
 

thunderkyss

Just win baby!!!
Staff member
Contributor's Club
Reed and Mercilus will likely be the OLB starters and we will draft an ILB early. OLB depth can be found in the middle of the draft.
If their plan was to let Quin walk & land Reed/Woodson, I wouldn't be so sure we're looking at the draft to fill the ILB position. We may find a veteran OLB, allowing Brooks to move inside, or we'll get a vet to man the middle, or they are happy with James...... darkhorse maybe Ruud.

I'm sure it isn't going to be popular, but I wouldn't mind leaving Brooks outside, signing Ruud for a couple of years, then look for a project pass rusher or two to rotate on the outside.

I know we don't have any money to pick up free agents, but I bet they find some somewhere.
 

Rey

Guest
Texans need to adress the pass rush. Promoting merciless is not going to be enough IMO. I want to see if he has improved any since last year, because if he's not a much better player than he was last year and we're depending on him to be our primary edge rusher we're going to be screwed.

We need to get at least one more player that can actually beat OTs and not guys that are specialist in the clean up sack.
 
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