[CBFF] FW: UPDATED: Ayanbadejo to Ravens; Bears decline to match

[Phil DeNomme]

and the contracts that Mo williams and Scott (OG from indy) signed werent
exactly bank breakers.

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Ryan Dietzenbach <ryandietzenbach at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Every player?  Hows about just one?  It isn't like there's not cap room.
>
> RD
>
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Jim Ferolie <ferolie at charter.net> wrote:
> > True, but if we break the bank for every player that can get a better
> offer
> > elsewhere, we'll lose out on someone more important. Ayanbadejo is a
> > Rosenhaus guy, so he was going for the top payday possible, and he was
> never
> > going to play significant minutes on anything but special teams.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ryan Dietzenbach" <ryandietzenbach at gmail.com>
> >
> >
> > > If we keep playing the game where we only go after bargains and
> > > everyone is "too expensive" we are going to end up with a lot of money
> > > in the back and a very, very crappy football team.
> > >
> > > RD
> > >
> > > On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:30 PM, Jim Ferolie <ferolie at charter.net>
> wrote:
> > >> That's just too much for a special-teamer who does not even really
> back
> > >> up
> > >> at his position. But I'm not surprised. He just kept talking over and
> > >> over
> > >> this year about the payday he expected to get for playing well.
> > >>
> > >> He earned it, and he was fun, both on and off the field. But the
> Bears
> > >> have
> > >> done a spectacular job of producing special-teamers and will be just
> fine
> > >> without him.
> > >>
> > >> I with him well, as long as he's not playing the Bears.
> > >>
> > >> ----- Original Message -----
> > >> From: "Tom Shannon" <shannontoberead at gmail.com>
> > >> > Feed: Inside the Bears
> > >> >
> > >> > Two-time Pro Bowl special teams player Brendon Ayanbadejo has
> chosen to
> > >> > sign a contract with the Baltimore Ravens. It is a four-year deal
> worth
> > >> > $4.925 million. The contract is front loaded and will pay him
> $3.355
> > >> > million in the first two years.
> > >> >
> > >> > Ayanbadejo went to the last two Pro Bowls as a member of the Bears
> > >> > after
> > >> > being a first alternate in 2005.
> > >> >
> > >> > He is the second player to leave via free agency, following wide
> > >> > receiver
> > >> > Bernard Berrian.
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
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