Saints Agree To Terms With LB Junior Galette On Three-Year Contract

hagan714 · 03-10-2013, 05:12 AM

Originally Posted by Danno

He tweeted it was 12 million, 3 years, 12 million?

Thats more than I was thinking it would be.

You gotta be kidding me.
I could have spent the money much wiser.

4 mill a year for a player that could not break into the starters roll?

this has to be a mistake.

if it is not it still is.

just when Micky was looking so good. tisk tisk.

You could have held onto Jr and probably could have added Victor Butler for the same hunk of cheese

or any other 2nd tier vet out there in FA.

i will wait

for some thing besides a tweet and pray the details are better than this

FinSaint · 03-10-2013, 06:16 AM

Originally Posted by hagan714

i will wait for some thing besides a tweet and pray the details are better than this

Hopefully Galette's tweet isn't reliable - they often aren't - so maybe it'll be 3-years/$4M total, which would seem much more accurate given that he hasn't really done anything to warrant a $4M/year contract.

Maybe a period mistake $12M -> $1.2M/year?

From the NOLA article on the topic:

With just three years of experience, Galette was a restricted free agent, meaning the Saints would have had the right to match any offer Galette received on the open market as long as the Saints tendered him a one-year offer.

The Saints apparently were prepared to make Galette a second-round tender offer of $2.023 million before the three-year deal was announced.

If that's true, then the $4M/per year contract would seem all the more unlikely given that it's double what they were prepared to tender him with.

03-10-2013, 05:12 AM	#1
hagan714 LB Mentallity Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 15,870 Blog Entries: 68	Re: Saints Agree To Terms With LB Junior Galette On Three-Year Contract Originally Posted by Danno He tweeted it was 12 million, 3 years, 12 million? Thats more than I was thinking it would be. You gotta be kidding me. I could have spent the money much wiser. 4 mill a year for a player that could not break into the starters roll? this has to be a mistake. if it is not it still is. just when Micky was looking so good. tisk tisk. You could have held onto Jr and probably could have added Victor Butler for the same hunk of cheese or any other 2nd tier vet out there in FA. i will wait for some thing besides a tweet and pray the details are better than this jlouhill and FinSaint like this.
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03-10-2013, 06:16 AM	#2
FinSaint Site Donor 2015 Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Finland... formerly Southern Virginia Posts: 4,963	Re: Saints Agree To Terms With LB Junior Galette On Three-Year Contract Originally Posted by hagan714 i will wait for some thing besides a tweet and pray the details are better than this Hopefully Galette's tweet isn't reliable - they often aren't - so maybe it'll be 3-years/$4M total, which would seem much more accurate given that he hasn't really done anything to warrant a $4M/year contract. Maybe a period mistake $12M -> $1.2M/year? From the NOLA article on the topic: With just three years of experience, Galette was a restricted free agent, meaning the Saints would have had the right to match any offer Galette received on the open market as long as the Saints tendered him a one-year offer. The Saints apparently were prepared to make Galette a second-round tender offer of $2.023 million before the three-year deal was announced. If that's true, then the $4M/per year contract would seem all the more unlikely given that it's double what they were prepared to tender him with.

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