The Free Agency Thread

[Father Demon]

No one answered my question.

Did Dawk go back to Philly and ask them to match?

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

i mean if dawkins is that bad then why did the eagles offer him a contract at any price?

So, now they're stupid for even placing a non-zero value on him.  Got it.

Sorry, it's hard to keep up with your platitudes.

you didnt answer the question...why did they try to bring him back at all?

and what about dawk makes four or five million more unacceptable for the eagles to have brought him back

They tried to bring him back because he has SOME value.  How much value he has is exactly the question that obviously separates the two sides of this argument.  Aside from G_F, I'm pretty sure no one said he "sucked" or shouldn't have a job.  Aside from Phreak, I don't think anyone is mistaking him for a Pro Bowler anymore.  So, his value is somewhere in the middle of 0 and a lot.

Also, I absolutely never said that it would have been unacceptable for them to bring him back.  I also didn't even say that they made the right decision.  Simply, I think those of you bemoaning the move as a huge tragedy or a massive misstep are whiny bitches without a leg to stand on here.

[PhillyPhreak54]

No one answered my question.

Did Dawk go back to Philly and ask them to match?

Nothing has been reported, so I doubt it.

[Father Demon]

So why is this entirely the fault of the Eagles FO?  It may have been a gamble that backfired, or it may have been that they didn't want Dawk back at higher than they offered.

But it certainly wasn't the FO that made Dawkins sign with another team.  Especially if (and I acknowledge that we don't know the answer to this) Dawkins never gave them the opportunity.

[rjs246]

Could we discuss this in a few more threads?

[Father Demon]

No.

[rjs246]

Disappointing.

[General_Failure]

We need to start one to talk about where we were and what we felt when we heard the devastating news.

[hbionic]

Dawkins was the face of the Eagles...but he was so blaine-bishopy on the field. Time to move on.

[Tomahawk]

Dawkins may have not been the player he once was, but he was never as bad as Blaine Bishop was when he played for the Eagles

[General_Failure]

He'll get that bad playing for the Broncos, so there's that to look forward to.

[Don Ho]

He'll get that bad playing for the Broncos, so there's that to look forward to.

[ice grillin you]

They tried to bring him back because he has SOME value.  How much value he has is exactly the question that obviously separates the two sides of this argument.  Aside from G_F, I'm pretty sure no one said he "sucked" or shouldn't have a job.  Aside from Phreak, I don't think anyone is mistaking him for a Pro Bowler anymore.  So, his value is somewhere in the middle of 0 and a lot.

Also, I absolutely never said that it would have been unacceptable for them to bring him back.  I also didn't even say that they made the right decision.  Simply, I think those of you bemoaning the move as a huge tragedy or a massive misstep are whiny bitches without a leg to stand on here.

because of your obsession with money you just will never get this...youre saying he has enough value to bring back at five million but not 7.5 milion?...at 43 million under the cap?...you cant really put a number on dawkins value to this team and franchise..and even if you can that number is certainly more than a few million dollars

[Father Demon]

They tried to bring him back because he has SOME value.  How much value he has is exactly the question that obviously separates the two sides of this argument.  Aside from G_F, I'm pretty sure no one said he "sucked" or shouldn't have a job.  Aside from Phreak, I don't think anyone is mistaking him for a Pro Bowler anymore.  So, his value is somewhere in the middle of 0 and a lot.

Also, I absolutely never said that it would have been unacceptable for them to bring him back.  I also didn't even say that they made the right decision.  Simply, I think those of you bemoaning the move as a huge tragedy or a massive misstep are whiny bitches without a leg to stand on here.

because of your obsession with money you just will never get this...youre saying he has enough value to bring back at five million but not 7.5 milion?...at 43 million under the cap?...you cant really put a number on dawkins value to this team and franchise..and even if you can that number is certainly more than a few million dollars

Wrong.  You clearly can, and it's $5M.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

They tried to bring him back because he has SOME value.  How much value he has is exactly the question that obviously separates the two sides of this argument.  Aside from G_F, I'm pretty sure no one said he "sucked" or shouldn't have a job.  Aside from Phreak, I don't think anyone is mistaking him for a Pro Bowler anymore.  So, his value is somewhere in the middle of 0 and a lot.

Also, I absolutely never said that it would have been unacceptable for them to bring him back.  I also didn't even say that they made the right decision.  Simply, I think those of you bemoaning the move as a huge tragedy or a massive misstep are whiny bitches without a leg to stand on here.

because of your obsession with money you just will never get this...youre saying he has enough value to bring back at five million but not 7.5 milion?...at 43 million under the cap?...you cant really put a number on dawkins value to this team and franchise..and even if you can that number is certainly more than a few million dollars

Again, you are making up my opinions for me.  If I'm the GM of the Eagles, he gets brought back at nearly any price.  But I am a fan with a Dawkins jersey hanging in my closet, not the GM.  I think it was a perfectly reasonable decision personnel-wise NOT to bring him back.  It's not the one I personally would have made, but it's reasonable.