2022 (a lot of these details aren’t official, so take it for what it’s worth)
In-house:
Player
Contract
FB Jason Cabinda
2yr/4.1m
LB Josh Woods
1yr/1.2m
WR Josh Reynolds
2yr/6m (4m incentives)
C Ryan McCollum
1yr/825k
OLB Reshod Berry
1yr/825k
S C.J. Moore
1yr/"up to"2.4m
C Evan Brown
1yr/1.2m
QB Tim Boyle
1yr/2m
LB Alex Anzalone
1yr/2.25m
S Jalen Elliott
???
LB Shaun Dion Hamilton
???
S Tracy Walker
3yr/25m
Out-of-house:
Player
Contract
crickets
Free agency has been BRUTAL so far for Brad Holmes. Has not shown the slightest ability to bring decent talent to Detroit through Free Agency so far. It’s early in 2022, but early results look to be more of the same of 2021, which is a little concerning…Take it for what you will. It’s gonna be a long time before we’re competitive if we’re relying on this approach to Free Agency and putting all our hopes and dreams into the draft.
I have always been on the 2nd tier free agent methodology so i really wont complain as of yet, he had some hits with harris etc in year 1. I assume a few more of those this year with maybe one splash (williams is my preferred)
Yeah but the Jets historical dipshittery is a loveable drunk and the Jags have the manliest man stache since…Rasputin?
Our historical dipshittery has ties to the day JFK’s skull was ventilated and his grampy playing footsie with a dude with a lot shorter moustache and temper…
“We were in a position where we had to resort to a lot of those one-year deals, just with the resources that we had available to us,” Holmes said. “We’ll have a little bit more resources available to us this year, where we’re not just searching for one-year deal guys. I’m not saying that we won’t sign a guy that’s on a one-year deal — that’ll still be in play — but I guess you can say the universe is a lot more open to us this year.”
“At this point,” Holmes said Tuesday, “the foundation is laid. We still have some work that we have to do. We don’t overlook that. But we’re excited about this next phase of the process in the upcoming offseason. Everything will be better than it was at this time last year.”
Detroit’s GM said “free agency will be better” because the club will “have a little bit more resources at our disposal.” “This is going to be the player acquisition phase,” said Holmes.
Look at who got signed and for what…. Other than T Walker, E Brown, J Reynolds, and of course J Jackson (stolen by Chargers)… i would t taken anyone else at their apy
Even astute Lions fans here say “OMG the Jags were just a quarter away from a Super Bowl!” The reality of the situation is a bit different, but its hard to expect a kid who was busy doing other things to realize that. New York is a media mecca. I remember last year when national media sources kept coming out with Jets related segments to tell all of us that X player is a great fit for the Jets. Some were obvious misfires. But Jets related coverage gets clicks, so reality doesn’t matter.
I mean, this is true. Holmes also didn’t sign any other teams free agents on the first day of the tampering period last season either. It’s like groundhogs day!
It’s almost as if he had less flexibility last offseason. We all knew that the Lions were going to be quiet in free agency last year.
If he sits on his hands and only goes bargain bin shopping once all the bigger names are gone then I’ll get the frustration but it’s too damn early to be calling for his head.
Exactly. We probably need WR as bad, or worse than Jax. Had we made those signings this forum would be up in arms; and rightfully so. Jags approached FA like they’re ready to contend this year… and will pay for it.
We’ve been over this multiple times in multiple threads. Just because we want Brad Holmes to bring in talent, doesn’t mean we want the exact players on the exact deals with that other teams made. Pay to bring in quality guys. Quit signing middling, barely-scratching-the-surface-of-a-real-nfl-roster talent to one year deals and calling it good.
Look at this roster. It has little talent across the board and is full of depth players. Even before re-signing our own guys, this team is full of guys who are all the same. Why are we wasting money on guys like Woods, Berry, Shaun Dion Hamilton? That’s like 3m to do what? Compete with guys like Bryant, Lemonier, Pittman, Bolton, Beckett at the same positions that are already under contract? Or so we can cut them in training camp. Sign some real players and quit messing around with the same contracts to the same 10 guys who all play the same positions.
We have 3 K under contract who all make roughly the same? Why? Absolute waste of money. There are 9 TEs under contract. Quit wasting all this money on players that don’t help the team.
Meanwhile, we don’t have:
A single starting-caliber LB.
Actual WRs for Goff to throw to (outside of ASB).
An actual backup TE, despite having 9 of them on the roster.
A starting safety tandem of Walker/Harris AGAIN
But hey, at least we signed McCollum to back up Brown, to back up Ragnow.
Let’s keep playing this game of musical 1yr-deal, no-talent hacks during FA that we cut before the season even starts and see how far we get though and hopefully Holmes can hit on enough draft picks to be competitive before the end of he and Campbell’s contracts in 5 years!
I get we want a WR… Zay Jones at 10M per? He’s literally J Reynolds for 7.5M more per year…. Kirk? Should we pay Kirk top 4 WR money?
WHO? We aren’t 7 years old brother. We have to give Holmes the benefit of not choosing to get raped by the agents of SHIT players
Justin Reid is basically the same player as Walker for 2M more per year and same age… I guess maybe some would prefer Reid, I could see that. I’m not sure we are any better off and we’d have less money but sure.
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I expect some type of answer. Which waste of money would have made you feel better?
Other than B Scherff and Jc Jackson no elite players were signed by ANYONE TODAY
