Brian Orakpo could become a FA.... PFT
 

@ProFootballTalk: Report: Washington has yet to make an "official offer" to Orakpo http://t.co/rr4jexjjiH

With two years of unfair cap penalties set to expire, the Washington Redskins have been trying to re-sign some of their defensive players who would otherwise become free agents.

But it’s one thing to work out new deals with DeAngelo Hall and Chris Baker. It’s quite another to finalize a new contract with Brian Orakpo.

According to Mike Jones of the Washington Post, the team had yet to make an “official offer” to Orakpo as of Friday afternoon.

It’s not clear what that means. “Official offers” often aren’t made in negotiations like this. Agents and teams speak in term of concepts and ranges and hypotheticals until it appears that the time has come to get serious.

For the team, that time could be now. Otherwise, the franchise tag of $13.116 million could be coming.

Absent the franchise tag or the little-used transition tag (or a long-term deal), Orakpo will become a free agent on March 11.

Disturbing

he man does not give a ****. he skeets on anyone

Ziggy Hood didn't get his own thread. WTF

The dude is a terrible actor on those Geico commercials.

No thanks.

I'd rather rape myself with a toilet brush than sign Brian Orakpo.

Why is that? He's better than Hali.

I call him Orakpwn

Not sure what we would do with him.

Unless they think he's an upgrade and are planning on trading Hali.

Yes, please.

You aren't old school enough on ChiefsPlanet to get that joke ;)

and do what with him?

Drop Hali's cap number?

With what? Dumbledore's magic wand?

Trade.

From the numbers i have seen we would take a 500k cap hit/loss by moving Hali this year.

The Raiders will sign this guy

Pipedream... no chance we spend those kinda bucks in free agency, no chance at all.

I guess some of you guys aren't going to the pancake social tomorrow

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/03/02/u6a2ude4.jpg

JC and DJ with B-Rye....

holy hell DJ looks light for a LBer

Report: Redskins agonizing over whether to keep Orakpo

Posted by Mike Florio on March 1, 2014, 6:10 PM EST
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If the Washington Redskins haven’t made an “official offer” to linebacker Brian Orakpo, there’s a good reason for it.

They haven’t decided whether they want to keep him.

Mark Maske of the Washington Post reports that the team isn’t sure whether to make the financial commitment necessary to keep Orakpo around.

“I think there’s a lot of back and forth on it,” an unnamed source with knowledge of the team’s deliberations told Maske. “I don’t think it’s clear cut.”

Maske also explains that it’s a “really close call” on whether the Redskins will apply the franchise tag to Orakpo before Monday’s deadline. A decision to tag Orakpo could be followed by a Terrell Suggs-style fight over whether he’s really a defensive end, which has a 2014 tender amount of $13.116 million. The franchise tag for linebackers is $11.455 million.

The Redskins also could apply the transition tag to Orakpo, which would give them a right to match but not compensation if he leave. It would cost $9.754 million at linebacker, $10.633 million at defensive end. And if Orakpo signs the tender, the money will become fully guaranteed.

The Redskins have a history of spending bigger money on free agents from other teams than on their own players, a practice that can send a bad message to a locker room full of young players hoping to be rewarded financially for their efforts. It’s always better for those players to think they’ll get their reward without having to move to a new city.

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Dumb

I have no clue why Black Bob hates Hali so much.

Orakpo has literally one move he's used his entire pass rushing career. He's a homeless man's Hali.

Hates our oline,hali,flowers,bowe, prob others.

That dumb shit Harry broke the wand.

Hear he's going to the Clones to win a national title.

....and Bowe...and Flowers

Great player...........






When he isn't injured.

Hali > Orakpo

That's a stretch.

Hali is 31
Orakpo is 27

That being said... there isn't much you can do with Hali's contract. Trading isn't a good option unless you want to eat $6M.

Why? Poo is always hurt.

How about Karlos Dansby....

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...karlos-dansby/

Last year, linebacker Karlos Dansby fell into the laps of the Arizona Cardinals, after he was cut by the Dolphins. This year, the Cardinals don’t want to let Dansby get away.

On Friday, coach Bruce Arians addressed whether the team hopes to keep Dansby during an appearance on Arizona Sports 98.7 FM.

“There’s no doubt,” Arians said. “We offered Karlos a contract the day after the season.”

The offer apparently wasn’t good enough for Dansby, along with any offers made since.

“We’re still in the negotiation process,” Arians said. “But, yeah, he’s a major priority because of what he brought to the table for us as a leader. We definitely would love to have him back.”

Dansby was a second-round pick of the Cardinals in 2004. After his rookie contract ended, the Cardinals kept him around via the franchise tag twice. In 2010, he signed with the Dolphins.

The franchise tag isn’t an option this time around, unless the Cardinals want to pay Dansby quarterback money, since it would be the third franchise tag of his career.

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Not surprising.

No fit here at all anyway.