WTF: Packers and Raji Close to One Year Deal?

[Fritz]

And if that comes to pass, we'll bitch that the Packers didn't offer more...

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And if that comes to pass, we'll bitch that the Packers didn't offer more...

i'd rather they offered him less, i'd rather not have him back at any price

to me raji has shown up the last two year and done little more then collect a pay check

james jones on the other hand, busts his ass and talks about how much he wants to stay in green bay, yet by all accounts we haven't even thrown him any kind of offer to stay

[pbmax]

Well, Wilde's guy says he's going to sign it.

Per @Haylov0204's #NFL source, Raji intends to sign #Packers' one- year, $4 million offer. Incentives could push value to $6.5 million.

Steve Haywood is reporting this or ESPN Wisconsin:

An NFL source told ESPNWisconsin.com's Steve Haywood Thursday that Raji intends to accept the Packers' offer and could sign the deal Friday. The deal includes incentives tahat could push the total value of the deal to $6.5 million, with Raji eyeing another chance at unrestricted free agency a year fro now.

http://www.espnwisconsin.com/page.php?page_id=278

[pbmax]

Tom Silverstein @TomSilverstein 3h
Still trying to find out exactly where BJ Raji and #Packers are in talks. One thing I know: they are trying to sell him on being a true NT.

[Rutnstrut]

This shitbag isn't worth a million a year.

[Tony Oday]

This shitbag isn't worth a million a year.

Sure he is, hell he is worth it just because of one past play!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLTg007HWuQ

[wist43]

Tom Silverstein @TomSilverstein 3h
Still trying to find out exactly where BJ Raji and #Packers are in talks. One thing I know: they are trying to sell him on being a true NT.

Trouble is, he's not a true NT - and never will be.

I love Raji as a player, but b/c he's misused, I hope for his sake that he walks... it's his choice though. We'll see.

[run pMc]

Doubt he walks from $6.5M; not with the other DLs out there and his last two years of film.
if it's 4M with incentives, that's not a terrible deal for either side. GB gets a one year rental on a 330 lb man who can move and will likely be very motivated; Raji gets pretty good money and a chance to prove doubters wrong.

Personally, I hope he signs, absolutely destroys interior OLs, and returns to his 2012 form after signing with SEA for huge money.

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i'm interested in the report that they've agreed to terms but that he won't sign it until tomorrow

why wait?

well tomorrow, i believe, is the first day agents can talk with other teams and get deals worked out before the fenzy of next monday begins. so they could take this deal and shop it to other teams if they want, before signing

[Guiness]

Count me as shocked by this news - I figured he was more all kinds of gone.

The market obviously told this former top 10 pick that he had an overly high view of himself, and his play over the past two years while he waited for the FA payday hurt him after all.

It did seem like he was just putting in time until then, and sulking over how he was being used. Although I do wonder if his high snap count may have had something to do with it. He plays an inordinate number of snaps for a big man.

Am I the only one that thinks even $4m is a little high? That draft position is still affecting his pay scale, if a 5th rounder had turned in a couple of seasons like he did, he'd be looking at a 2yr $4m deal.

I assume the incentives will be snap counts and game day bonuses.

[denverYooper]

i'm interested in the report that they've agreed to terms but that he won't sign it until tomorrow

why wait?

well tomorrow, i believe, is the first day agents can talk with other teams and get deals worked out before the fenzy of next monday begins. so they could take this deal and shop it to other teams if they want, before signing

It could be pending some other check like a physical, but it's pretty unusual for them to agree to terms without following through.

[pbmax]

Count me as shocked by this news - I figured he was more all kinds of gone.

The market obviously told this former top 10 pick that he had an overly high view of himself, and his play over the past two years while he waited for the FA payday hurt him after all.

It did seem like he was just putting in time until then, and sulking over how he was being used. Although I do wonder if his high snap count may have had something to do with it. He plays an inordinate number of snaps for a big man.

Am I the only one that thinks even $4m is a little high? That draft position is still affecting his pay scale, if a 5th rounder had turned in a couple of seasons like he did, he'd be looking at a 2yr $4m deal.

I assume the incentives will be snap counts and game day bonuses.

His snap count went down significantly in 2012 and nose dived this year. I am not sure low counts were helping him.

[Fritz]

Maybe his agent will take this deal on the road and shop it around before he lets Raji sign it.

[QBME]

Maybe his agent will take this deal on the road and shop it around before he lets Raji sign it.

I kind of doubt it. TT's too good of a negotiator - he's offering a number to take Raji off the market, not to shop around. Have to believe it's a time critical offer.

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I kind of doubt it. TT's too good of a negotiator - he's offering a number to take Raji off the market, not to shop around. Have to believe it's a time critical offer.

i disagree

didn't randy moss use us for this exact same thing a few years back? and jennings took our deal and brought it to the queens. hell he might have just given shields a number to shop a couple days ago

looking at some of the deals he's made lately (brad jones, burnett) and some he's tried to make (8 million for the slug raji, shields failure), i wouldn't exactly call him "too" good of a negotiator