Why we must pay Doom

I would think trading Doom would be considered is that we just signed Haggen to a new deal and we just drafted Ayers. I definitely don’t agree with the idea, I’m just saying it’s not like if we lost him we would be playing some horrible backups.

And I think its hilarious that every utterance by Adam Scheffter is treated like Moses just descended from the mountain top. The guy is a master at coming up with plausible speculation and repacking it as hard news. He’s even better at somehow getting all his misses to slide off like bacon grease.

I’ve said this before and I think it still holds true. The Broncos love having Doom on their team, but if Doom tells McDaniels that he wants to go to Miami because it is close to his family, I absolutely believe that he should go. There are things that are bigger than football and this is one of them.

That being said, hopefully we would get good value for him if he did happen to get traded.

Good post. I agree and think we should try to keep Dumervil. The trick will be walking the line between value and production. I’ve looked at each of Dumervil’s sacks and have determined that all together they represent a a point value of about 26 points. (will probably post on this soon) for the full year. Is the 26 points of value, plus his 49 tackles, sufficient to warrant the kind of deal he will want?

Part of the answer to this question is his growth potential. Can we assume that he is done growing as a player? Does his value as a rush defender suck away all of the points he generates through sacks. Given his proximity to Kenny Peterson against the run, I am betting the answer is no.

So when Xanders has his total cap number on one side of the equation and the points values of all of the Broncos players on the other side, do the points values roughly equal the % of total salary that his number eats up?

The answer to that question is where I believe they will go.

It would be sad to see Doom go but it wouldn’t surprise me if McD were to work out a good trade while his stock is so high. Hope he can stay in Orange and Blue (and on the odd occasion brown) for the rest of his career. Does anyone know if he has lost any family members in the tragedy?

No doubt he is a great player, but would you be comfortable paying him 10+ million a year if thats what his production determines? Top sack guys ALWAYS get paid lots of money. If he gets into Dwight Freeney salary would everyone be cool with that?

And I think thats the point we need to think about here. Is he worth the top money. We saw last year when Tennessee walked away from Haynesworth. We all want to keep him here but there fiscal responsibility may keep that from happening.

We have many holes to fill, let’s not add another one

that would be smart. moving on to the o-line, d-line, receiver,…

I’m sure many on this board could shed some light on this pretty quick, but most teams have a few players that are payed very well. It seems that the Broncos really do not have too many of those right now. We need to pay a few guys big bucks in my opinion to keep them. I think it is not bad for team morale either to let the players know we are willing to pay for performance as opposed to just trade or let go once the price tag gets too steep for a player because of superior performance.

It seems that waiting for a player in the last year of the contract (a la Shanahan, I believe), before rewarding for performance often leads to players that become too expensive. We need some forsight as a team and reward players a bit earlier which will come a bit cheaper. Sure we will miss on some by paying early and then not panning out, but it seems a better and cheaper insurance policy then always waiting until the last of the contract and then getting sticker shock.

Say maybe like $6M per year, five years. Then once the new CBA is agreed upon next year, revenue sharing with the players will almost certainly be lowered. That’s the issue at hand, it’s why the owners opted out of the last agreement, and it’s why we’re facing a lockout next year… so I find it very likely that concessions are made and salaries are lowered.

So in essence, there’s a very real chance that by extnding Doom to market value today, could mean he’ll be making 15-20 percent above what market value is lowered to next year and the remainder of the contract. Make this mistake with just two players and the team would stand to lose up to $12M. Do that more than twice and we’re not only burning money, but we could find ourselves in real cap trouble.