Zero2Cool
11 years ago
There's more to the article if you click the writers name.

I'd like to see Sam Shields inked for 5 years and around $27 million contract.

Green Bay - Free agency means different things to different people.

In the case of the Green Bay Packers, it doesn't mean sifting through options and targeting prizes as much as managing a system that requires every team to make critical decisions about its future.

In the case of cornerback Sam Shields and possibly center Evan Dietrich-Smith, it means getting ready to move into a new tax bracket.

The focus in NFL free agency typically lands on unrestricted free agents like Joe Flacco, Greg Jennings, Steven Jackson and Wes Welker, but when the NFL calendar year begins March 12, the Packers will be investing a solid chunk of change in at least four of their five restricted free agents.

To maintain the rights to a restricted free agent - anyone with three years of experience whose contract has expired - a team must submit one of three qualifying offers, each of which comes attached with a level of compensation a team must pay for signing one of these free agents.

In the case of Shields and Dietrich-Smith, the Packers will have to decide whether to use the top or middle tender offer.

The highest tender sets compensation at a first-round pick, the middle tender sets it at a second-round pick and the low tender sets it at the round in which the player was drafted. In any of the three cases, the original team has the right to match any offer made to its restricted free agent.

The difficult part for general manager Ted Thompson is that both Shields and Dietrich-Smith were not drafted, so if the low tender is placed on them, there would be no compensation awarded if the Packers didn't match the offer.

Shields took his game to a starter's level and anyone who saw him pick off San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick and return it for a touchdown in the Packers' divisional playoff loss knows he's for real. One element of the game the 5-11, 184-pound Shields improved on the most was his tackling, something his fellow starter, Tramon Williams, did not do well at last year.

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11 years ago

There's more to the article if you click the writers name.

I'd like to see Sam Shields inked for 5 years and around $27 million contract.

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool 



It all depends. If they give him $15-20 as the signing bonus. No
If they give him $5 as the signing bonus. Sure.
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nerdmann
11 years ago
Shields is more important (and skilled) than EDS.

Iirc, the only reason Shields wasn't drafted in the first round was his positive weed test right before the draft. Although he was raw, having only played defense for one year.
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Zero2Cool
11 years ago

Shields is more important (and skilled) than EDS.

Iirc, the only reason Shields wasn't drafted in the first round was his positive weed test right before the draft. Although he was raw, having only played defense for one year.

Originally Posted by: nerdmann 



The reason he wasn't drafted was because he started only 10 games as a cornerback, where as the other games he was wide receiver prior to that.

What you smoking?

Basically, everybody thinks I got pulled over because I was smoking pot and all that, . . . I was never arrested before. I never tested positive on a drug test. I smoked in high school, but I didn't like it. That was about it.

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gbguy20
11 years ago

Shields is more important (and skilled) than EDS.

Iirc, the only reason Shields wasn't drafted in the first round was his positive weed test right before the draft. Although he was raw, having only played defense for one year.

Originally Posted by: nerdmann 



lmao
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nerdmann
11 years ago
WIKI 

Shields was projected to be a seventh round pick in the 2010 NFL Draft but went undrafted after being arrested for possession of marijuana and signed with the Green Bay Packers for a minimum contract and a $7,500 bonus.


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gbguy20
11 years ago

WIKI 

Originally Posted by: nerdmann 



right. 7th does not equal 1st
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steveishere
11 years ago
I think they will get Shields a longer term contract before the season starts either way.
gbguy20
11 years ago
I hope we don't have to overpay to keep him. But I think we have to give him whatever he demands. He is necessary.
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nerdmann
11 years ago

right. 7th does not equal 1st

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That was after the position change.

Dude's got physical skills.
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