James Harrison cut

[westcoast]

The thing that is getting under my skin a little bit is losing Harrison and others like him is inevitable in this day and age but you can't lose your old and young defensive starters at the same time. They're about to loose two of their more talented young players in Lewis and Wallace in addition to Harrison, I understand they made a legitimate offer to Wallace last year and Lewis' play before this season didn't merit a significant attempt to re-sign him. The Wallace departure aggravates me because I still believe they could have attempted to get rid of him and get something in return before the 2012 season, many brought up Miami as a possible trading partner or the 49ers and I bet both of those teams are seriously looking at making a run for his services and both have allot of picks to part with. If (and this is a big if) Worilds explodes on the scene this year we're gonna be in the same predicament we find ourselves in with Lewis, his contract is up after this season and I don't see a whole lot of cap room next year.

Not sure what the answer is but offering "both" Redman and Dwyer tenders isn't exactly the way I'd go about it even though the 1.3 they placed on Dwyer wouldn't get the Lewis deal done but maybe it helps. I'm guessing they figure he's a gonner which is a shame.

[BobbleHead]

The thing that is getting under my skin a little bit is losing Harrison and others like him is inevitable in this day and age but you can't lose your old and young defensive starters at the same time. They're about to loose two of their more talented young players in Lewis and Wallace in addition to Harrison, I understand they made a legitimate offer to Wallace last year and Lewis' play before this season didn't merit a significant attempt to re-sign him. The Wallace departure aggravates me because I still believe they could have attempted to get rid of him and get something in return before the 2012 season, many brought up Miami as a possible trading partner or the 49ers and I bet both of those teams are seriously looking at making a run for his services and both have allot of picks to part with. If (and this is a big if) Worilds explodes on the scene this year we're gonna be in the same predicament we find ourselves in with Lewis, his contract is up after this season and I don't see a whole lot of cap room next year.

Not sure what the answer is but offering "both" Redman and Dwyer tenders isn't exactly the way I'd go about it even though the 1.3 they placed on Dwyer wouldn't get the Lewis deal done but maybe it helps. I'm guessing they figure he's a gonner which is a shame.

Yeah, I would not have imagined losing all three of Lewis, Wallace, and James Harrison. Now I saw on Sportscenter that Harrison is most likely to go to the Ravens or Patriots.....that would be a boatload of suck.

[ThinMan]

Not sure what the answer is but offering "both" Redman and Dwyer tenders isn't exactly the way I'd go about it even though the 1.3 they placed on Dwyer wouldn't get the Lewis deal done but maybe it helps. I'm guessing they figure he's a gonner which is a shame.

They can pull those tenders whenever they want, making the guy a UFA. If it an extra million was going to keep Lewis, they can jerk the tender from Dwyer and let him go. Tendering he and Redman is basically just letting them get the option to match offers right now. Doesn't mean they have to match or that they have to pay that tender....unless they decide they want to keep them.

[westcoast]

Funny how the Vikings got rid of Harvin who has never had over 1,000 yards receiving and missed over a half dozen games last year for a first and seventh this year and reportedly a mid round pick next years while we get zip this year and maybe a comp. 3rd at best next year. for Wallace. Not saying Wallace is better or worse and not saying we could have grabbed a first but you would sure as hell think that if we would have shopped him last July we probably could have snagged at least a second and then some.