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Sweet Mother of God! L Green says he wants to come back.

Turd Ferguson said:
Concussions are such a hot-button issue with the NFL....I like the guy but you just cannot have him on the field. One heavy hit and the scrutiny this team will take if he's allowed back on. Let alone, he's already been in and out of the protocol too many times. Injury settlement and move on.
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Hot button ...yet they allow Moore and Conely right back on the field when its obvious to even a dummy like me they should not be
 
LeXX75 said:
Hot button ...yet they allow Moore and Conely right back on the field when its obvious to even a dummy like me they should not be
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Oh I agree but the NFL is going to take heat from the Moore incident so I fully expect the precautions that will be needed for Green just doesn't make it feasible to keep him.
 
deljzc said:
He has no trade value. Not after another concussion and a base salary of $5 million next year.

I am not 100% how injury settlements work in the NFL, but that could have a lot to do with what this team decides to do with him. If he comes to OTA's and has ANOTHER concussion is the team on the hook for all $5 million? I'm not sure how that works or how injury settlements affect the salary cap.

We can save over $3.5 million on our salary cap by releasing him as a post June 1st designation but would then have about $2.3 million in dead money for next season. Medium dollars in the scheme of things really.

We could also approach him with a pay cut. Not sure he'd get $5 million on the open market so if he wants to stay, let's lower that to $2 or $3 million. That would get his salary cap $$ (albeit all this year) close to what it would cost to release him (albeit spread out over this year and next).

I would not expect any decision on Green until after the NFL draft.
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At this point we might as well keep him for a while because of the cap hit to see how he does after essentially a year off. But that last concussion didn't look like all that hard of a hit. If it happens again then do an injury settlement.
 
what a waste of money. guy ran to sign the FA contract knowing he would milk his ankle injury then have 'headaches' the rest of the time.
 
Haven't looked closely but it may be as expensive to dump as keep and there are two viable options at TE.
 
Of course he'd want to come back for that kind of money. This guy is a concussion magnet dating back to his days in San Diego and should not have been signed but that's water under the bridge. The team cannot depend on him staying healthy so we need to move on from him. Plus what's best for Green is to retire before he racks up more concussions. These are the same guys who after they do retire are the first ones to sue the NFL for not protecting them. He needs to step down now and hopefully he saved some money.
 
If they bring him back Colbert needs to be fired. Period.
 
They made a mistake, it happens. He isn't ever going to develop, or get tougher as he gets older. Even if it hurts against the cap I'm not wasting a roster spot on a maybe week to week.
 
I disagree with the wait and see approach for a multitude of reasons:


* Green has showed over the course of a year he is susceptible to concussions and when he experiences them, it takes a shitload of time for him to come out of protocol.

* With a team so close to great things you can't afford to let what if players hold you back. You need to have the players in place to make a legitimate run.And part of that is replacing Green and not putting all your eggs in a basket with Bryant and Coates. Obviously Coates and Bryant will get another chance. But really why should Green? What confidence can you really have in him moving forward?
 
slashsteel said:
I disagree with the wait and see approach for a multitude of reasons:


* Green has showed over the course of a year he is susceptible to concussions and when he experiences them, it takes a shitload of time for him to come out of protocol.

* With a team so close to great things you can't afford to let what if players hold you back. You need to have the players in place to make a legitimate run.And part of that is replacing Green and not putting all your eggs in a basket with Bryant and Coates. Obviously Coates and Bryant will get another chance. But really why should Green? What confidence can you really have in him moving forward?
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I don't, other than he's a pretty big cap hit so we might as well see if he can play next year. Maybe he's okay, maybe his kid hits him with a Nerf ball and he gets another concussion. Worst FA signing in recent memory.
 
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