Can I officially kick off the "GET KIRK MORRISON" campaign?
by Charles L on Mar 3, 2010 10:23 PM EST
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PrintKirk Morrison, the stud 28-year old Oakland MLB, has been offered an original-round (3rd) tender. I don't know that much about the guy, but ...
A: He's an Al Davis draft pick. He's obviously really fast.
B: According to FO he was a top 5 defender in Total Defeats (Int, Sack, FF, Preventing 1st Down on 3rd or 4th down).That's probably somewhat related to the porous D-line in front of him and the inordinate amount of time he and the rest of the Raiders D spent on the field. Still, the rest of the top 10 are from solid defenses, so that can't be completely true, right?
C: A lot of guys here are perfectly willing to break the bank on Karlos Dansby or give away our 1st and 3rd for DeMeco Ryans or Barrett Ruud. Morrison is at least almost as good as those guys, and he's available for the equivalent of a Ramses Barden or Mario Manningham.
D: I don't think there's much of a demand for 4-3 MLB's right now. The teams with ILB needs (Denver, Miami, KC, NE, I'm sure I missed a bunch) all seem to be 3-4 teams that inherently need a ton of linebackers. The bidding, if we're lucky, might be limited to teams looking for backups.
E: Oh man, this list keeps getting longer and longer. The draft's top potential MLB's are either 3-4 ILB's or 4-3 WLB. There'd be a transition period, so they wouldn't be able to start immediately, even if Coughlin didn't have a policy against starting rookies.
F: Based on Mock Drafts the 3rd round pick we would only have lower quality guys like Lamarr Houston or Sean Lee to choose from, none of whom are guaranteed to even be good enough to ride the pine.
G: There's been absolutely no news about him. And that can only be a good thing.
Thoughts?
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Stole it from me
I was just coming here to write the same Fanpost – and based off the same FO article, of course. I suspect you would have to offer Morrison more than just the tender (after all, Oakland has a right to match) but he should be ours for ~3mil/year – i.e. a fraction of Karlos Dansby money, and even less than Michael Boley money which is criminal.
I'd do this..yes.
I wouldn’t be the early bird..lets see who’s actually out there in FA first.
But I dunno how you can’t do this. Of course, I’d try and prod the Undead into giving us Morrison for a bag of cheese doodles…but that’s getting ahead.
Master of the squeegee
Just to sweeten the pot
the Rams’ are rumored to only be tendering Atogwe with a “first right of refual” level. Morrison and Atogwe would go a long way to freeing up the draft and solidifying our defense for the short to bring up the rooks.
Then you can go strictly BPA, which I’m sure will satisfy alot of you.
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And I forgot to mention this
He hasn’t missed a game in 5 years.
by Charles L on Mar 3, 2010 10:46 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
I'm all for it
Morrison is a young, proven MLB who will come at a fraction of what all the other FA MLBS are asking for—what more can the Giants ask for?
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well...he'd make less then Dansby (if he's a MLB...)
If the Giants sign him, its a FA contract (to which the Raiders can match…which, given their 3rd round tender of him, they aren’t too fond of him).
It would probably be an Antonio Pierce/Mike Boley type contract. say 5 yds $25million, tho possibly more then that.
Morrison is a good player, obviously…..you don’t get these RFA’s for pennies. Really the only difference is the Raiders are owed compensation if you sign himl; they own his rights still.
Master of the squeegee
by FreeBradshaw on Mar 3, 2010 11:15 PM EST up reply actions
He is probably not as good as we think he is
If the raiders only want a 3rd rounder
by mclaren_is_the_best on Mar 4, 2010 1:40 AM EST reply actions
or……. This could be the team that drafted a kicker in the first round… And has a 1st and 3rd round tender on their over-fast but under-skilled nickel corner… And has a coach who punched out an assistant…
and who STILL believes in JeMarcus Russel and who drafted DHB ahead of Crabtree and Nicks
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by I_Formation27 on Mar 5, 2010 3:13 PM EST up reply actions
Get this Guy
He is exactly what you want as an MLB. I wanted him before but when i learned he was restricted i thought he would get a 1 and 3. If we only have to give a 3 then get this done. Much better immediatly with a chance to get better than anyone 3rd rounder will get us
If only jerry will give up a draft pick
I would like to add him
But i thought last years FAs were good signings. With all that new beef our Dline was projected to be dominant. It was in fact atrocious. Hopefully our FA signings if there are any will turn out better this time around.
Perfect Fit in our Offense!!
Ive seen alot of raiders games, and he seems like the only guy on that squad that didnt give up on this year. As pathetic as they were he was always giving %110 and that is contagious and he pushes Osi to do something!!
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