Grading All 32 Teams After The First Week of Free Agency
 

I am looking forward to the comments on this one!

New Orleans Saints: B-

The Byrd signing is fantastic and Jimmy Graham will be back, but they lost a lot of talent on both sides of the ball in order to make those moves work.

Grading all 32 teams in free agency

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LOL..I knew this dude was a Failclown fan even before seeing this:

Atlanta Falcons: A

They wanted to bolster the trenches and they did exactly that with Tyson Jackson, Jon Asamoah and Paul Soliai. They’ve also yet to lose a single
player.

This says all I need to know about this clown writer.

They haven't done squat. They act like Tyson Jackson is going to solve all there woes. Ummm the dude has been the league 6 years and has 200 tackles and 9 sacks. Paul Soliai in 8 years has 160 tackles 2 FF 4.5 sacks. Yeah..lmao

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What talent did we lose? The old ass trio of Johnathan Vilma, Will Smith, and Roman Harper? Or maybe the guy who never lived up to his draft slot, Malcolm Jenkins? Could it be the pint sized corner who got schooled in the back of the end zone by a rookie in the Pats game...Jabari Greer? Or maybe it was the declining play of Lance Moore and Darren Sproles that we should have kept.

Who wrote this? Smh.

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The Falcons have not lost a player?
Except Ryans safety blanket and one of the top TE in the history of the NFL.

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The Falcons signed two run-stopping D-Linemen and a guard who was benched halfway through last season LOL... And here I thought they had no pass rush, no free safety and no starting TE.

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Can't grade free agency at any stage until after the entire season is over.

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we did...?

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You just said everything I was thinking

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Darren Sproles is the big loss so far and we have yet to address the OC position. but hats off to micky we are sitting better than i thought going into the draft.

Warning label needs to be attached to this.

JIMMY'S CONTRACT HAS YET TO BE SIGNED

Till such time i do not see how you can rate a thing. Jimmy signing means more cuts i am sure so i will wait and pass judgement.

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Jimmy is our property. He can sign, or he can sit.
His $7mil already counts against our cap, so we need to find only 2 more.

I do agree about not rating it yet... kind of like saying someone won the first quarter

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well once this appeals crap is done then i will feel better. that wont be till after the draft any ways. i always expect the worse. it makes it easier that way for me. optimistic pessimist - never disappointed with a half full glass of milk in a half empty glass ;)

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We did lose some good players, but they were all system players.

Sproles, Moore and DLP are our biggest losses, but they aren't what I'd call huge losses. Scat backs are luxuries and can easily be replaced.

DLP was a journeyman OC on his 6th team. He fit our system well but can be replaced.

Moore's skills looked to be declining in my view. Its a loss, but not a huge one.



Harper, Collins, Smith, Vilma, and even Jenkins are all replaceable.

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Did I miss DLP signing with another team?

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Not yet, but I'm a visionary.

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He says the Falcons have yet to lose a single player like it's a good thing.

They went 4-12. The NEED to lose some players.

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No they don't. :cool:

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You're right. They're perfect just the way they are. :)

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Um...is that a picture of the author at the bottom of the article? If so he looks about as intelligent as his analysis.

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Graham's FT is already counted, there is yet to be an appeal to get sorted, if somehow he gets the WR tag, Grubs and Evans restructure fixes that or we rescind the FT.
Nothing to worry about.

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I'm with you... I think it's a good sign that we are signing players and having players come back- shows stability and that players want to play here, and that the FO has a plan.

Anyone know if Graham has actually filed a grievance/appeal yet?

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We lost talent on both sides of the ball? Who did we lose on defense? Greer is the only one that comes to mind as being semi-important to the Saints last year, and by the end of the season White was playing better than Greer had been.

Now I won't deny Moore and Sproles are losses on offense, but how many times have we reloaded those positions over the years? We replaced Joe Horn with David Patten, then replaced Patten with Lance. Didn't miss a beat. Replaced Bush with Sproles, didn't miss a beat. Replaced Mike Bell with Ivory, same thing; Ivory with Robinson, Stinchcomb with Strief, Goodwin with DLP. Same deal over and over. You would think people would understand by now how this stuff works.

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Recently read an article from NFL.com about how the NFC South is becoming the most balanced division in the NFL. I might have felt that way at the beginning of the off-season after the changes Tampa made to the coaching staff, but with free agency it looks to me like we have improved much more than Atlanta and Carolina. Hopefully the Jimmy Contract is figured out sooner rather than later so we can get a better idea of the cap situation around the draft.

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Besides being a little harsh on Greer you nailed it.:bng: