Clady's body is breaking down, he may make a miraculous recovery, but doubtful
We got a 7th round pick for Chris Clark and now he is starting for Houston and playing good.
Clady's body is breaking down, he may make a miraculous recovery, but doubtful
We got a 7th round pick for Chris Clark and now he is starting for Houston and playing good.
He's our best lineman but I can see Elway trying to get him to take a paycut. We really needed him this year.
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I think Elway restructures Clady due to injuries.
Can't pay him that if he is not on field. Probably change to more incentives and option to earn more overall.
We might have a little leverage to ask him to restructure. All of his guaranteed money was in the first 3 years.
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Draft
1st round— Cooper Dejean CB
2nd round— Jack Sawyer OLB
3rd round— Will Shipley RB
4th round— Ricky Pearsall WR
5th round— Ladd McKonkey WR
6th round— Cash Jones RB
7th round— Carson Steele RB
I originally assumed he was done in Denver. But with all of our line issues, I could see him back if he takes a big pay cut / restructure. He's not playing here at $10 million next year. I just can't see it.
The average salary range for starting veteran LT in the NFL is between $8M to $10M. People are not realistic thinking that Clady won't command that kinda of deal.
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We drafted Chris Myers, but he barely played except when Nalen was hurt, then we traded him to Houston (reuniting him with Kubiak) for a 6th round pick. That suddenly made him a starter, then a two-time Pro Bowler. Eric Winton's been mediocre since leaving Houston, bouncing between 3 teams in as many years and losing the starting job last season, but was good enough IN Houston to get $22 mil over 4 years from KC. Wade Smith also bounced between 3 teams, in 6 years, and only held onto the starting job throughout 1; then he came to Houston, kept the starting job, and even made a Pro Bowl.
In Denver, there were Dan Neil, Ben Hamilton and Tony Jones (a career-starter, so not mediocre, but his sole Pro Bowl was under Shanny, Kubes and Dennison in '98.) Ben Hamilton may be the best Broncos example, a severely undersized LG who became a solid pulling lead blocker in our ZBS under Kubiak and Dennison. Call him a puffed up FB if you like, but he never would've been a starter without coaching giving him the required skills and a system in which to apply them; he remained a Broncos starter even after Kubiak and Dennison left, but when McDumbass cut him he was out of the league a year later.
Understand, I'm not saying all (nor any) of those guys were scrubs, nor that Kubiak and Dennison made them all HoFers, only that most were below average talents but above average players thanks to developed skills and a system that took advantage of them, both of which reflect coaching.
Sometimes I worry Kubiak and Dennison believe their own hype a little too much, so we end up trying to make starters out of guys like Cooper Carlisle and George Foster (though Foster was an underperforming 1st round bust, and I personally think that was because of him, DESPITE coaching.) It's fine to make bad players decent, but much better to make good players great. Regardless, our HC and OC have a long record of doing both, just as Kubiak's gotten at least one Pro Bowl season out of EVERY permanent starting QB he's ever had, even Griese and Schaub.
Going back to Clady, it's hard to imagine a former All Pro taking a paycut on a contract he got after a franchise tag, but it's equally hard to imagine Elway would keep paying $10 mil/yr to a guy with a shredded leg at a critical mobility-intensive position, especially since each time that leg's been hurt in the past he's needed MORE than a full year to play decently again.
Oh, valid point. I thought you meant all starters, you should take the time to be more descriptive, don't be shy. —Jaded
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I don't think we can count Ware's money as a free up anymore. Before the season I would have said yes, this is his last year and we can use his money next year. He keeps playing like he is now I don't see how we let him go, I don't care who we have as a backup.
I think Clady will be gone.
Oh, valid point. I thought you meant all starters, you should take the time to be more descriptive, don't be shy. —Jaded
Never confuse frustrated candor and disloyal malice.
Love can't be coerced. —Me
I think most people suspect any offensive line issues we have are due to development and lack of chemistry, not an inherent lack of talent. I tend to agree from what I've seen.
I also think the coaches like Ty Sambrailo, and Clady's roster status for next year will depend on where Ty is at later this season in terms of his player evolution. If he does enough to just establish confidence that he can be the franchise LT, then I don't see Clady coming back (though I don't think his career is over, he'll find a spot somewhere). I like Clady and I think he can still be very good, but age/injuries and a young early round draft pick coming in is just the natural circle of life in the NFL.
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