Ive read some posts lately saying let Grimes go. Must be good wearing dark glasses with a walking stick and a dog to show the way. Unreal. Patterson just frustrates. The guy is made of glass. Shame, damn shame.
Can someone name a dolphin corner who gave us better play, or gave us more confidence over a season? Uhhhh, pat surtain.. Yeah, we need to sign him.
Sometimes I like to think that that if you can come out at the end of the season healthy, you can take the offseason to strengthen those weaknesses and have better odds of health the following year.
Yes, must try to resign Grimes. He's been awesome this year. Depending on if they determine Patterson's injury issues are going to be chronic and continue is one thing, but if not he should be resigned as well. He's a ballhawk when healthy. That's something our secondary has lacked in the past and so key to winning.
Why? The guy is the true definition of lock down. Also just because you sign someone to a 4 year deal doesn't mean they will actually play for you for 4 years. Personally I would lock him up as hes by far the best CB we have had in a long time.
I agree Patterson is talented, but this groin injury is just the latest in an ongoing string of injuries that have limited his playing time throughout his career. Since 2007 he has played in 14 games or more only 2 times. The most games he has ever started has been 9 in a season. I have little confidence he can hold up physically as a starter for an entire season. Cleveland released him last year as I recall because of some lingering injury that he refused to play through because he didn't want any bad tape of his play to get out there. Then we got him, and in his first game he played very well, and then gets an ankle injury early in the final game of the season. It is very hard to rely on him.
If anything it is the other way around. When we first signed Incognito it was a 1 yr deal to see how he'd fit in. It was mentioned that we could not resign him until the next off season because of the thing about his being a UFA signed to a 1 yr deal etc etc. The new CBA may have changed it to where we can. I have just been presuming it was still the same as before.
I think he is better than either and said a while back he is our best pure cover corner since Tim McKyer spent a season in Miami.
Already did once, but Tim McKyer was great for the 1990 season. The only real shutdown defense of the Olivadotti era, allowed 242 points or about 15 a game that year. McKyer was a key part of that.
Grimes is the best player on this defense. He is a must sign in my opinion. I would sign Patterson too, but because he's often injured, it would be with that in mind so the money would not be as good. I don't think other teams will pay a lot for his play because of his injuries.
Grimes is the 4th ranked CB and Patterson is 9th. Only one TD given up to a WR this season Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk 2
That's my thought...he took what we would give him, although he wanted a longer term contract, no one was going to give him that last offseason. It'll be tricky for him...after what he's done this season, he warrants a long term, close-to-elite-pay contract, however, he'll also be 31 at TC's start so will anyone want to give him a long term contract ?? He would fit very nicely with BB in NE, or Indy or or Cincy or Denver or Texans or any number of teams that are closer to the championship level than we are... With it likely that we'll have a new regime in here after this fiasco, will he want to stick around ?? He may not get the big contract that he likely would have deserved (before the injury, sucks the timing of that one), but he can hook up with just about any team he want's after his performance this year... IMHO, I foresee a blow up of the organization after this Martin/RI thing...that will likely scare away guys like Grimes...but even if there is no blow up of the organization, he may want to see what he can get out there...
I don't know if it's changed in the new CBA, but that was a rule in the past...It's likely not changed either... My guess is we can't re-up him until just prior to the start of FA...
I agree. It was definitely a rule under the old CBA, and it does not seem like someone the players would have wanted changed badly enough to push for it. If anyone can come up with an example of UFA who signed a 1 yr deal and then reupped during that one season, that would disprove it. Otherwise far as I'm concerned the rule still exists.
You'll have to franchise Grimes. I think some here don't realize how badly he'll clean up in unrestricted free agency.
