The NFL has been making it clear that, notwithstanding the status of the labor deal between the league and the players’ union, the draft will be conducted in 2011.
And that’s a good thing, since teams have commenced the process of dealing the picks.
The Buccaneers have announced that their own sixth-round pick from the 2011 draft has been shipped to Philly for receiver Reggie Brown.
Brown is under contract through 2014. Per NFLPA records, he is due to receive a base salary of $1 million in 2010, $1.2 million in 2011, $1.6 million in 2012, $3 million in 2013, and $3.7 million in 2014.
The move comes on the same day that the Eagles signed Jason Avant to a five-year, $18 million contract.
Tampa’s sixth-round pick might not be the only 2011 selection that the Eagles harvests. If quarterback Mike Vick is traded after the 2010 draft, all or part of the compensation could be 2011 picks.
Don’t forget, the Patriots acquired the Raiders 2011 first round pick in the trade for Seymour. That was like a year ago. So it’s not like the trade today was the first one involving 2011 draft picks.
man thank god thought it was sheldon brown for a sec was gonna lose it
So that would mean his $3.5MM is payable immediately, right?
Does no cap mean that it is time to dump every bad contract like this? if so, why not just dump Stacey Andrew and be done with it?
Not sure I understand how it works with bonuses, but those are 100% guaranteed no matter what, right?
i dont even get a shoutout on the scoop? weak!
I am pretty sure they understand that JP.
Well, that run of having legit WRs like Keyshawn Johnson, Keenan McCardell and Joey Galloway sure was fun….
But now I guess it’s back to the Jacquez Greens and Karl Williams quality wideouts again.
What’s the over/under on QBs in camp? Anyone know?
Well I guess the Bucs are all set at receiver now…….
Wish I could have worked out different, oh well. Should work out good for the Bucs.
The deal is contingent on Reggie Brown paying his own moving expenses to Tampa as the Glazer Family hasn’t counted out enough penny rolls to pay the way!
Congrats Elton Brand…you once again have the worst contract in Philadelphia sports.
typical bucs of late
trade a draft pick for an oft-injured player, hoping to score another Antonio Bryant and not another David Boston. Hopefully this deal works out as the Kellen Winslow Jr trade has worked out (so far)
no signing bonus, at least one that the bucs have to pay.
i just hope we get the Brown of his first 2 years, not the Brown of the last 2 years. Christ, we already have Michael Clayton wasting space.
Yet another in a long line of recent brilliant roster moves by the Bucs organization. Hell, even Oakland, St Louis, or Detroit wouldnt have traded a warm glass of beer for Reggie Brown.
8 catches for 91 yards is pretty good for a game – too bad that is what Buc fans can look forward to for a season total.
Enjoy!
Saw the headline and though it was Sheldon Brown…….
Reggie makes more sense!
@xloonex
same here man
@idropbombs
wtf are you talking about?
stacey andrew took a pay cut though
hooray!!! I actually like Freddie better than Reggie.
Good Riddance. Now that I think about it, the Eagles have:
Resigned their all pro fullback for 3 years
extended their slot WR for 5 years
Got >7 round pick for Reggie Brown
Took money from an Andrews brother.
You can’t say this is a horrible start to the off-season. It’s not glamorous, but it isn’t all that bad…
THANK GOD! or At least the Bucs!!
Now when are my Birds going to get rid of Kevin Curtis….On another note, are the Bucs collecting #3 receivers??? Stovall, Stroughter, Clayton, Brown…sounds like #3 receivers to me.
I, too, saw the line and thought Sheldon Brown… If all the Eagles fans don’t even remember Reggie Brown is even ON the team, that goes to show you how little of an impact he’ll have in Tampa. He did have an OK game last year didn’t he?
Thank God, Reggie Brown is out of Philadelphia.
At least in TB Reggie will get passes thrown his way.
Sh!t we could have got at least a first and a third from Dallas
HA HA! The Bucs took Reggie Brown. Good move, what’s next hire a coach with no experience that is going to dump his coordinators right before the season…Oh yeah.
So what are the Chances the Eagles draft a Player like Tom Bradey or a Wilbert Montgomery or a Mel Gray with this 6th rounder?
“Draft god” Andy Reid spent a 35th overall pick on this guy. He’ll get 175th or worse in trade.
This is almost better news than if they would have signed Peppers.
“lithiumfx26 says:
March 8, 2010 9:39 PM
At least in TB Reggie will get passes thrown his way.”
I don’t know about passes thrown “his way” so much as “thrown in the general direction of him or another Bucs player….maybe.”
This is practically “giving” Reggie Brown away. They could have at least gotten a 2010 pick for him.
“Sh!t we could have got at least a first and a third from Dallas”
Reggie Brown couldn’t make the Cowboys practice squad.
What can brown do for you?
Vox: “Trade god” Jerry Jones traded an even higher FIRST ROUND pick (and third and sixth round picks too) for Dallas’ own version of Reggie Brown, i.e. Roy Wiliams.
Don’t blame Andy Reid for Reggie Brown’s declining production … in his rookie year, the guy had almost 1,000 yards receiving, when he was the “featured” receiver (out of necessity), but he declined from there as Andy Reid assembled better talent … K Curtis, D-Jax, Avant, etc.
Reggie didn’t help matters with the cement-mixing he’d do on the sidelines (man, wash your hands after messing with that sh!t, Reggie!) and his attitude wasn’t exactly “team-first” when he could no longer get on the field.
So, I says Andy Reid got DECENT production from Reggie Brown for first 2 seasons, and that’s not all that bad … many 2nd round picks never make it onto the field … and after using the guy for 4 seasons, and his last only saw 9 catches amidst a competition to even get onto the field, Andy pulled the wool on Tampa to get a 6th …
Well done, Andy. NOW, focus on getting good value for Vick and maybe McNabb, and reload this team for years to come …
What is your favorite Reggie Brown moment?
Mine was when McNabb was engineering a final drive against the Redskins 2 years ago. A must-win game (or so we thought, the Bucs would later choke against Oakland and we would ‘back into’ the playoffs) against a terrible Redskin team playing for nothing.
It was a final drive to win the game, McNabb has the ball…so you can guess how it went. We lost.
But here was the punchline – last play of the game and Reggie Brown is running an in route at the 3 yard line and is well covered by several defenders immediately behind him (who assumed, wrongly, that the QB would go into the end zone and a win).
McNabb, with ample time to deliver the ball to any receiver, throws Reggie the ball well short of the goal line. So Reggie catches it at the 2.5 and is instantly dropped at the 1.5. Which came as no surprise to anyone who saw where Reggie was when the ball was thrown (and could see the defensive coverage).
I have fond memories of McNabb and Reid throwing Reggie under the bus. To the media. Right after the game. Because McNabb is such a “leader” and stand up guy. And Reid is a player’s coach.
It was all Reggie’s fault! See!?!?
Like Jackson and Maclin, he just needed to teleport himself to the correct spot. And McNabb would have been able to pull it out. It’s almost like these WR’s want to spite DMac, like the fans!
GREAT trade for the Eagles. I would have accepted 2 rolls of tape and the foam thing that goes over the microphone part of a headset.
THIS move over-shadows NO big name F.A. signings.
KING~out
hey vox, andy traded feeley to miami and used the pick to draft brown. midnight green glasses dick
.VoxVeritas says:
March 8, 2010 9:48 PM
“Draft god” Andy Reid spent a 35th overall pick on this guy. He’ll get 175th or worse in trade.
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And yet, in his first 2 years, he out performed Roy Williams in his first 2 years with the Cowboys, and they spent what on him again, Vox? Remind me…
To the Eagles fans who think they’ve just received the best news since Rocky, enjoy your lack of Super Bowl Championships.
To the Bucs agitators who can’t wait to pounce on any move made by the Morris/Dominik regime, try to spend your life doing something a little more constructive than ambushing PFT every time the Bucs make or don’t make a transaction. Thanks to Dominik and Morris, we have a second round pick and the Bears are signing their death certificate with an overpriced, over the hill band-aid.
MARK MY WORDS,
The Bucs will have the biggest Wins to Loss turn around from this past season (09) to the next (10)…
Even the “peacock” folks that run this blog realize what a helluva deal it is for the Eagles. To get that contract off the books is amazing!?!
I believe Mooch and I went round about it a while back. It was a bad contract and the Eagles get a pick out of it. Bucs needed a receiver and R. Brown is decent. Maybe not a #1, but a solid #2. Now if the Bucs would just take a qb from us for a nice first day pick……..
Not too shabby.
is vox that stupid and lame that he needs to post on every single article and act like the biggest troll to ever not move out of mommy’s basement…..and the real trade was aj feeley for reggie brown and we signed aj feeley back as a free agent later on lol
I just want to commend whoever came up with the term Rapistberger… brilliant.
The Bucs administration is a pack of weak, stupid and especially cheap idiots.
He would have been cut in training camp if they didn’t train him. Kudos for getting anything at all.
It’s a fair deal. I would expect him to have some success in Tampa. He was buried on the depth chart in Philly. Good luck Reggie.
“Opie says:
March 8, 2010 11:58 PM
Bucs needed a receiver and R. Brown is decent. Maybe not a #1, but a solid #2.”
Yes, Reggie Brown will fit in nicely on the Bucs roster…..
It is comprised mostly of solid #2s.
Yeah they traded Feeley to Miami for Brown and then turned around and got Feeley back anyway….nothing lost.
In that time, Reggie was their number one receiver. Then they got better quality guys like Curtis, Avant, even Baskett for a time, and of course Jackson and Maclin. So Reggie faded to the background, though even last season when he was needed later they still got a few key catches from him. So bad use of the draft pick that they didn’t own for him all those years ago? No way. The next three receivers taken are nobodies.
Mooch, what do you do with all that time to throw and no receiver who’s open? Never throw it? Or hit a guy who at least has some possibility to score?
Yeah he never leads fourth quarter comebacks…besides all those ones last year…even against Sand Diego, that was pretty impressive, then the D went right out and gave it back.
Don’t worry about it fuhgyou, he’s obviously a Cowboys fan just trying to get a rise out of all the Eagles fans.
Reggie Brown is a young receiver who had been on the right track a couple of years ago. He got a few nagging injuries and was passed on the depth chart by better and younger receivers; that doesn’t mean he is a bad receiver, just not a really good one. The Bucs acquired a solid WR, albeit a bit over paid, but if it weren’t for his contract Reggie would have been kept by the Eagles. He would most likely have been their #4, Jackson #1, Maclin #2 and Avant #3; but a trade for any compensation makes sense, as his contract isn’t team friendly for a #4 WR.
He’ll probably start for the Bucs as most likely their #2 WR (could be their #1 given the lack of talent they have at the position); and all they gave up was a 6th round pick next year. The precentages of a 6th rounder even making an NFL team can’t be much above 10%; so what did they really given up – not very much and it’s in next years draft. With the NFL making it a priority in the next labor agreement to substantially reduce the rookie salary pool, tons of underclassmen (who would be higher round draft picks next year) have declared for the draft, which reduces the value of all 2011 picks. Couple that with the possability of a lock out, which would put next years rookies way behind on their learning curve and the value of 2011 picks lessen even further.
Again the Eagles got a pick for a player that did not have a team friendly contract, and the Bucs got a servicable (obviously not a great) WR. IMHO this was a good trade for both teams.
“Mooch, what do you do with all that time to throw and no receiver who’s open? Never throw it? Or hit a guy who at least has some possibility to score?”
Yeah, that’s right. He took the play, having to know pretty well that it was a low % play. What I do not understand is why they trashed Reggie after the game. That revealed McNabb to be a buck-passing, excuse-making, non-leader. What was Reggie supposed to do? Learn how to fly?
“Yeah he never leads fourth quarter comebacks…besides all those ones last year…even against Sand Diego, that was pretty impressive, then the D went right out and gave it back.”
San Diego went into a soft zone and then a prevent. Were you watching the game? Clearly McNabb can do no wrong if you mistake trash stats as actual competitiveness. But I like how you blame the defense that carried the team for the better part of a decade. Last year was the first year we couldn’t count on them to win the game for us – and, of course, the offense never can carry the load unless TO is at the helm. We haven’t beaten a winning team since 2008, dude.
Birdman, you don’t even live in the city and probably not even this part of the country. So I am sorry if the passion of a real Eagles fan threatens you. You have the luxury of being able to get away from the team when it struggles. Those of us that live here don’t.
Opie – I think I called Reggie’s contract the worst in Philly sport, even worse than Delambert’s or Brand’s since those guys actually see the court.
I really like Reggie Brown early on, but he hit some kind of wall really fast. I once thought he’d be the basis for a emerging WR corp. But that Redskin game essentially ended his career here.
He just never seemed to be able to get open. I was always surprised when he caught a pass, as I invariably had assumed he was deactivated.
We owe Reggie a debt of gratitude, though. After he fell off Reid seemed to realize he needed to invest top picks in the WR position, and get guys who were ‘special’. So Jackson and Maclin were brought on. Your 3rd WR can be dependable, the first two need to be impact guys. At last, we have that.
This is a sore spot to me because I feel the guaranteed money made Reggie uncuttable and untradeable. So when we needed to throw a body the Rams’ way in the WW deal, it ended up being Gibson instead of Brown. And Gibson can play.
Reggie will do ok as a #2. I predict 700 yds and 5 TDs.
Reggie Brown was a bum and always will be a bum! This loser should have been cut by the Eagles 2-3 seasons ago! Thanks Eagles, you made a good decision by letting this guy go… Too bad we still won’t win a Super Bowl… I’ve come to terms with the disappointment my team provides to me each and every year… It never changes…
Stupid F*$king EAGLES!
This is the way it had to go down, although I never quite understood what happened to Reggie Brown. He had a promising first two years, and then he never saw the field. It’s hard to produce when the coach won’t play you. I feel like there must have been some behavior that soured Reid on Brown that we aren’t privy to, because Brown’s career trajectory really makes no sense. I expect with a fresh start he could be a productive #2 if he takes advantage of the opportunity.
Reggie’s rookie year was very promising. Positively Roy Williams -like…
61 catches / 780 yards / 4 TD’s