The Texans top priority will be to re-sign outside linebacker Mario Williams according to John McClain of the Houston Chronicle, they also want to sign running back Arian Foster, who’ll be a restricted free agent, to a long-term deal. The team’s top priority will be to re-sign outside linebacker Mario Williams. The Texans can’t afford to carry Williams at $22.9 million for one year, they can’t trade him because you can’t trade a player who’s not under contract. They could franchise him and hope he’d agree later to a long-term deal, but he’d be holding all the cards knowing they couldn’t keep him at $22.9 million. Williams wants to stay, but once he’s on the open market, a team with a lot of cap space and an owner willing to spend millions might offer agent Ben Dogra $40 million to $50 million for him, but before we count Williams as gone, remember that Smith, coach Gary Kubiak and owner Bob McNair have said they want to re-sign him, but they have only so much they can offer. Source: The Redzone
jesus christ, the franchise tag price for a LB/DE is $23 million for 1 year now ? wtf? most teams don't have that much room under the cap. hell, that ONE salary would eat up 20% of a team's ENTIRE cap ................ i thought the franchise tag price was supposed to be the average of the top 5 paid players at the same position ................. there are FIVE guys at that position that average $23 mill per year?
no way that cant be...OLBs id say ware, harrison, woodley, hali, suggs, (curry maybe?) and the most is ware at like 8 million a year i believe. i have no idea where they got that number, i dont even think thats the QB/OT/DE number which are all higher than the OLB im sure
exactly............ i don't know where that number came from but that's insane ............ maybe someone who knows about the new franchise tag rules can shed some light on this .............
From what I could find, these are the Top-5 average salaries for 2011: Brian Urlacher - $11,330,000 DeMarcus Ware - $11,285,714 LaMarr Woodley - $10,250,000 Kamerion Wimbley - $9,600,000 David Harris - $9,000,000 That's about $10.3M as the average and that is the highest average between, average salaries, base salaries and cap hit...so it probably isn't more than the #10.3M... The players on all three lists are quite surprising actually...
Wasn't there a part of the Franchise Tag rules that say the player has to earn a minimum of the Top-5 salaries or some percentage above...like 25%? That would put his salary in the $22M range for 2012...then it would make sense...
If its that much something is SERIOUSLY wrong if they actually use it. That is WAY too much money for one player for one year
because williams made 18+ million in 2011, the franchise tag would raise his salary to 22.9 million in 2012. It's the average of the top 5 salaries at the position or 125% of previous year salary, whichever is higher. Texans are something like 20 million over the cap as it is and with the way their defense played without Mario under Wade Phillips, I honestly don't see him back in Houston, no matter what their front office says.
The closest I can think of was Adalius Thomas. But this defense is so bad, I think it's time for him to do something. We need a pass rusher really really bad. Our top sack guy was Andre Carter. Come on man. lol. Honestly though I think any money the Pats do have needs to go into the secondary. The DLine is servicable. I would just like to see Williams in a Pats uni.
The Dolphins could be very scary if they got Peyton and Williams and played like they did at the end of this season. I would pick them to win the AFC.
holy crap, the texans wrote his contract for him to make $18 mill in his final year? hahaha, what a bunch of dumbasses...... they just screwed themselves for this franchise tag year .............. they backloaded his contract way too much and now can't tag him. thanks for the explanation though mike.
