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This may have been a freak injury. But I know for a fact there was concern among NFL execs around the league that he was on the edge, physically, at the end of last season. This is now his second surgery in 5 months. His physical status affected everything from trade value to the talks with the Bills, to interest from other teams at FA time as it related to his contract demands. NO gambled, and lost. At least this year.

 

I can believe it. I don't think Jairus really wanted to stay here in the first place but I do believe the FO factors in player health/injury risk when deciding if or for how much they will re-sign a player. As it should be.

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Aaron Williams is quietly having a solid season at FS. Contrary to Carucci's opinion yesterday, we haven't experienced ANY dropoff in performance. Then again, Carucci praised Carpenter's ability to kick off out of the endzone, so I'm not sure he's watching the same games we are.

 

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Aaron Williams is quietly having a solid season at FS. Contrary to Carucci's opinion yesterday, we haven't experienced ANY dropoff in performance. Then again, Carucci praised Carpenter's ability to kick off out of the endzone, so I'm not sure he's watching the same games we are.

 

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I think AW is only "quiet" because he hasn't had any INTs yet and because he plays for the Bills. But watching the games, he is very impressive.

 

How true. INTs, like sack for DEs, are the popular stat. Astute observers know better, though. AW is gonna make somebody's All Pro team soon, INTs or not.

 

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I said it last season that Aaron Williams was a very good player and he was better than Byrd in run support. The guy can hit and tackle. Byrd is a very talented but one dimensional Safety. He can play the pass and ball hawk. Did not see his leaving as a big loss. He wanted out and got the big contract he wished for. He is gone time to move on.

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I said it last season that Aaron Williams was a very good player and he was better than Byrd in run support. The guy can hit and tackle. Byrd is a very talented but one dimensional Safety. He can play the pass and ball hawk. Did not see his leaving as a big loss. He wanted out and got the big contract he wished for. He is gone time to move on.

Kirby was another who had said that he thinks AW has the potential to be a better all-around FS than Byrd. I know its early but I sure hope that is the case, and early returns look promising.
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Well, it looks like Byrd's getting exactly what he wanted: $18,300,000.00 guaranteed for four games played.

Parker will now try to parlay that into his next big holdout/contract negotiations so a player like Byrd would get $73,200,000.00 guaranteed based on a 16 game season.

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I think AW is only "quiet" because he hasn't had any INTs yet and because he plays for the Bills. But watching the games, he is very impressive.

 

Agreed. It's interesting I saw him in camp and he was head and shoulders ahead of the other DBs in terms of motivation and physical attributes. Really stuck out to me that he had all the right non skill related stuff.

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IMO he knew his body was breaking down. Thats why he went for the big guarantee versus a larger incentives-based deal. Cant fault him for that really, but I was always glad Bills passed on him. Saints are in a tough spot cap-wise for years in part due to this. But this season I wouldnt be at all surprised if his replacement Rafael Bush out plays him.

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so he got his guarantee and his contract, comes from a good family and knows he will be able to retain his wealth, and is getting out as soon as possible to save the dementia risk.

 

I think we will be seeing MUCH more of this, with the head injury issue now so front and center. Going forward, guys will get their big contract and the attendant signing bonus then tanking it (with the rest of their lives as their primary consideration).

 

And I do not blame them.

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Whaley should have traded him for a 4rth rounder last year

its not easy to trade a guy without a contract. The team you are trading him to would want to know he is willing to sign there long term or it's a wasted draft pick. The list of teams he was willing to do that with was very short. Plus, teams knew he was going to test FA regardless. The trade everyone thinks was so easy was anything but.

 

Plus he had to sign the tag first in order to be traded. He could very well have waited until July again to do that, because he didn't want to be tagged, further decreasing trade partners as most teams have their starting lineup set by then. I'm sure Parker was adamant the tag would hurt their chances to sign him, as they were hoping to do that. They didn't WANT him to leave.

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I wanted to re-sign him. I will be the first to admit that I should not be an NFL GM - I'm just a guy who mouths off anonymously on a message board.

the Bills wanted to re-sign him too, they just didn't want to overpay for a FS. They tried to sign him, but they weren't going to do it at the expense of other positions. NO did overpay IMO, and it didn't work out. Not this year, anyway. Edited by YoloinOhio
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