OAKLAND RAIDERS OFFSEASON THREAD
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FOXSports.com's Jay Glazer reports free agent S Gibril Wilson's deal with the Raiders will be for six years and $39 million.
It'll include a whopping $16 million signing bonus. Glazer says the Giants were unwilling to match the offer, which is almost a given. Word around the NFL is that Al Davis is overpaying because nobody wants to go to Oakland.
It'll include a whopping $16 million signing bonus. Glazer says the Giants were unwilling to match the offer, which is almost a given. Word around the NFL is that Al Davis is overpaying because nobody wants to go to Oakland.
POSTED 6:39 p.m. EST, February 29, 2008
WILSON TO RAIDERS
Winning a Super Bowl is the NFL's equivalent of the time-honored "beer goggles." Suddenly, the players on the team with the trophy look better than they really are.
And the Giants are experiencing some of that on the first day of free agency, less than four weeks after securing their first championship of the free-agency era. Gone are linebacker Kawika Mitchell, linebacker Reggie Torbor, and (per Nancy Gay of the San Francisco Chronicle and Adam Schefter of NFL Network) safety Gibril Wilson.
Schefter reports that the deal is for the six-year, $39 million package that Jay Glazer of FOXSports.com reported the Raiders had offered.
POSTED 6:34 p.m. EST, February 29, 2008
HAZARD PAY IN OAKLAND?
With the Raiders giving defensive tackle Tommy Kelly a deal with $18 million in guaranteed money and with the team now reportedly (per Jay Glazer of FOXSports.com) offering $16 million in guaranteed money to safety Gibril Wilson, there's talk in league circles that the Raiders are coughing up the coin in an effort to shed a perception of dysfunction.
Though officials with other teams weren't happy with Kelly's haul, since it screws up the market for the rest of them, the agents are now paying attention to the Raiders.
Of course, there's only so much that the Raiders can spend. But they appear poised to spend it in order to get players to choose to play there.
WILSON TO RAIDERS
Winning a Super Bowl is the NFL's equivalent of the time-honored "beer goggles." Suddenly, the players on the team with the trophy look better than they really are.
And the Giants are experiencing some of that on the first day of free agency, less than four weeks after securing their first championship of the free-agency era. Gone are linebacker Kawika Mitchell, linebacker Reggie Torbor, and (per Nancy Gay of the San Francisco Chronicle and Adam Schefter of NFL Network) safety Gibril Wilson.
Schefter reports that the deal is for the six-year, $39 million package that Jay Glazer of FOXSports.com reported the Raiders had offered.
POSTED 6:34 p.m. EST, February 29, 2008
HAZARD PAY IN OAKLAND?
With the Raiders giving defensive tackle Tommy Kelly a deal with $18 million in guaranteed money and with the team now reportedly (per Jay Glazer of FOXSports.com) offering $16 million in guaranteed money to safety Gibril Wilson, there's talk in league circles that the Raiders are coughing up the coin in an effort to shed a perception of dysfunction.
Though officials with other teams weren't happy with Kelly's haul, since it screws up the market for the rest of them, the agents are now paying attention to the Raiders.
Of course, there's only so much that the Raiders can spend. But they appear poised to spend it in order to get players to choose to play there.
The Bucs have shown interest in free agent OT Kwame Harris.
The Bucs have shown interest in almost everyone. They'd only offer Harris a "swing tackle" job. He'd compete to start in Oakland, where he was Friday.
sounds like tampa bay interested in harris also, i think they should sign him, they got all that cap room
The Bucs have shown interest in almost everyone. They'd only offer Harris a "swing tackle" job. He'd compete to start in Oakland, where he was Friday.
sounds like tampa bay interested in harris also, i think they should sign him, they got all that cap room