Packers' Off Season Moves and 2017 Roster

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Lang has not been contacted yet this offseason. http://cheeseheadtv.com/blog/could-j...medium=twitter

The Packers haven’t even contacted Lang. He said so this week on SiriusXM Radio.

So the other free agents are still the priorities (Tretter, Perry, maybe Jones), and there is still time for them all to sign or turn down the Packers.

These guys at Cheesehead TV think Tretter might be targeted for Guard. I think Linsley would be a better fit, but they have had taller, thinner guys at Guard before.


EDIT: forgot Cook as FA priority over Lang.

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one of those two (tretter, linsley) will be our starting guard next year, the other will be the center

no room for lang imo

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Here are your FA signings:

Miami Dolphins @MiamiDolphins
We have released DE Mario Williams, DT Earl Mitchell and waived CB Ifo Ekpre-Olomu.

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Nagler's podcast gives the following run down on Packers own FAs:

0. Hyde, signed, too valuable
1. Cook, signed, $5-6 mil per, less than Olsen, maybe DWalker/BCelek territory
2. Jones*, signed, everything but boxscore contributions
3. Perry, maybe, $8+ mil per, Packers want him, but he's gonna get Jerry Hughes/PernellMcNee/BrandonGraham money
4. Barclay, yes, minimum salary

5. Lacy, no, hits FA like Perry to test water, comes back if he doesn't like offers
6. Lang, no, $7+ mil per, Patrick or Murphy replace him, a Ted move
7. Peppers, no, old, want Fackrell or Elliot to step up
8. Michael, no, untrustworthy, hit open market, might bring him back if he gets lowballed
9. Starks, no
10. JC Tretter, maybe due to injury, might scare off suitors, but should get paid starter money somewhere


* Says Jones doesn't show up in boxscore but does a lot of good things on tape

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i like perry a lot this year, but thats too much money for a guy whos had one season NOT ruined by injuries

and i DO NOT want barclay back at any cost. you can't afford to have him on the field, so why even keep him. go draft someone else, or just go grab a frozen piece of dog shit to take his spot

hyde i would keep, shouldn't cost much, and isn't a bad player

cook is a no brainer for me, sign him up, top priority

datone, i don't know on this one, maybe keep him if he's dirt cheap, but i'm not his biggest fan. but if he does stay, he's the guy that needs to step up in place of peppers and perry, not fackerell

lacy i would try and keep, the guy has weight issues, but i think we can all admit, he's the best back we've had in a long time (at least since ahman). when healthy. and he shouldn't cost that much. i think we're all just pissed at him cause he got fat and hurt

and i already said i think they'll keep tretter over lang, tretter should be younger and cheaper

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An actual new nugget from Andrew Brandt from this Nagler podcast. When McCarthy came on board, he was looking to launch his accountability and availability drive.

Brandt says this was when the Packers front office really bought in to adding offseason workout bonuses into contracts. $100,000 of the agreed salary might be for offseason program alone and the player had to hit 85%, 90 or 95% attendance to collect the cash.

The two holdouts? Harris and Woodson said it didn't matter how much was in the fund, they weren't coming in just to workout in March.

Never had a chance to get it into Favre's contract. Rodgers has it in the current deal.

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2 guys who didn't need the extra work, or a piddly 100K

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and just to update, free agency for the other 31 teams starts march 9th

so we got 3 weeks to sign our own guys we want to keep before their prices go way up

[Cheesehead Craig]

I think we're losing Perry. I can see him getting better $ than the Pack are willing to offer. There will be posts of those saying this is proof that TT needs to go as he's letting valuable pieces go. And others who will point out that the $ he got is more than the Packers could have possibly offer it without screwing themselves over on the cap and keeping other players.

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ProFootballTalk @ProFootballTalk
Pittsburgh Police say charges that include robbery and aggravated assault are pending against Darrelle Revis

Revis Island getting cheaper by the moment.

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I think we're losing Perry. I can see him getting better $ than the Pack are willing to offer. There will be posts of those saying this is proof that TT needs to go as he's letting valuable pieces go. And others who will point out that the $ he got is more than the Packers could have possibly offer it without screwing themselves over on the cap and keeping other players.

I'm obviously not the biggest fan of Ted, but I don't think he fails to re-sign Perry. And if he does, it will be because somebody overpays for him. Perry did damn good last season, but you could also make a case for saying he is a classic case of a player playing up in his contract year. I'll fault Ted if he doesn't get us a top quality free agent Corner, but I don't see him messing up either way on Perry.

[Zool]

I think we're losing Perry. I can see him getting better $ than the Pack are willing to offer. There will be posts of those saying this is proof that TT needs to go as he's letting valuable pieces go. And others who will point out that the $ he got is more than the Packers could have possibly offer it without screwing themselves over on the cap and keeping other players.

Anyone know what the tag number for an OLB would be?

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Anyone know what the tag number for an OLB would be?

Unofficial, but this is probably real close:

The specific amounts of the franchise tenders won’t be known until the per-team salary cap has been finalized. If the cap is $165 million, here are the salary-cap numbers:

Quarterback: $21.01 million.

Defensive end: $16.73 million.

Receiver: $15.49 million.

Linebacker: $14.37 million.

Offensive line: $14.1 million.

Cornerback: $14.04 million.

Defensive tackle: $13.22 million.

Running back: $11.9 million.

Safety: $10.76 million.

Tight end: $9.66 million.

Kicker-punter: $4.77 million.

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Thanks Joe. I didn't realize the cap had anything to do with it. I thought it was the average of the top 5 at that position. Either way, Perry at $14 or $16mil makes the tag a non-option.

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Thanks Joe. I didn't realize the cap had anything to do with it. I thought it was the average of the top 5 at that position. Either way, Perry at $14 or $16mil makes the tag a non-option.

I didn't know either. It's actually a combination:

The NFL starts by calculating a "franchise tag" amount for each of the prior five years. The franchise tag amount is the average of the top five salaries at each position for each year. Then the NFL adds up the last five franchise tag amounts and divides them by the prior five total salary-cap amounts.

The NFL takes this rolling five-year average of how much of the salary cap that position's franchise tag takes up, then takes that percentage of this year's salary cap as the non-exclusive offer amount.