How bad do we miss G. Warren now?

by The Villyn on Apr 11, 2008 12:24 PM MDT Comment 6 comments

I'll tell you what, our D-Line would look a heck of a lot better with Big Money at DT. I said back when the "mastermind" traded him to oakland that it was one of the worst moves shanny has ever made, and i still feel that way. Shanny traded him because Warren "didn't fit into what we were tyring to do here." So we simply traded our best DT to a division rival because he didnt fit into the scheme, how absurd. And what makes it even worse is that defensive scheme was sent packing at the end of the year. I would give that crappy 5th round pick back to the Raiders in a second to get back Warren. Yet another head scratching move by Shanny.

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"Big Money" wasn't worth the

money we were paying him. Let him go be subpar with Oakland. I was glad to be rid of him and his cap baggage.

We'll recover just fine without him.

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by Tim Lynch on Apr 11, 2008 2:01 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

I don't think

we gto rid of his cap baggage, just him.

MattR?

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by Jeremy Bolander on Apr 11, 2008 10:08 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

We probably didn't get rid of his

Guaranteed money, but I believe we saved 4-6 million a year by dumping him.

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by Tim Lynch on Apr 11, 2008 10:32 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

Apparently,

most Bronco fans miss Warren. How much of a difference would he have really made last year? Our LB core was out of position too much to matter, poor DT play only made things worse.

$36 million is worth it in your mind for Warren? How about $52 million? ;) How do Thomas Kelley's stats measure up to "Big Money" over the past few seasons?

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by Tim Lynch on Apr 11, 2008 3:05 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

It was a bad trade

Warren's base salary last year was $595,000. He was supposed to get a $2.37 million roster bonus but it was renegotiated down to $1 million with another $2 million if he played half the defensive snaps. He was definitely worth having in 2007 for $1.6 million and probably so for $3.6 million (which was still less than the cap hit Denver took for trading him)

Whether it would have been worth it to keep him around for the last 3 years of his deal at 4 to 4.5 million a year is another question. And whether it was worth it to give Warren the big bonus when he signed the contract is yet another.

But given that Warren was traded because he did not fit the Bates scheme which was then scrapped a couple months later I think it was a bad deal.

by MattR on Apr 11, 2008 3:27 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs