Comments on: Six years, $61.5 million for Dumervil

By: Brewster

Brewster — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:22:02 +0000

@# cleanface says: July 23, 2010 1:32 AM
my employer just agreed to a 1 year- $140k deal with me but they can terminate it with 2 minutes notice w/o cause so I don’t feel that great about it.
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Very funny comment. Probably true and one of those “at will” work agreements, but with a good attorney you probably could have held out for an hours notice. You know, when you’re asked to come into your boss’s office at 4:00PM & shut the door.

By: allinSTACKme

allinSTACKme — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:15:25 +0000

2010_DHB_70rec_90 0yds_10tds & raiderrob21, If this is a bad deal, where were you two f*cking idiots when the JaWalrus deal was announced?

By: spliffbunker

spliffbunker — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:57:04 +0000

2010_DHB_70rec_900yds_10tds says:
July 23, 2010 10:39 AM
against the entire afc west last year he had 5 sacks in 8 games………..
Last of all do the math on his high sack total……
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you might want to check your math skills…they play 6 games in the division

By: robert ethen

robert ethen — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:13:59 +0000

Bronco’s P.R. department is pushing for the club to draft a guy named Glumenbach or something like that, to play the opposite side from Doom.

By: JLawless87

JLawless87 — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:15:50 +0000

That seems like a lot of cash … I would want him on my team so i guess i can see making him happy where he is

By: Cecil

Cecil — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:56:37 +0000

Laughing at the Raider fans trying to parse this as a bad deal. Dude is paid to sack the QB, not amass tackles. Also, he’s averaged more than 10 sacks a year over a four year career. Also love the dude “doing the math on his high sack totals” that doesn’t end up even close to his actual number for the season. Next time, try a calculator.
In other words, if he was on your team, you’d be screaming from the rooftops that he was the best in the league. Suck on it.

By: 2010_DHB_70rec_900yds_10tds

2010_DHB_70rec_900yds_10tds — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:39:25 +0000

against the entire afc west last year he had 5 sacks in 8 games, 2 of those were week 3 against oakland (when our first overall pic and huge bust qb started) none against oakland the second time. They must have gave him all that money to deflect passes at the line, oh wait hes only 5’11. Last of all do the math on his high sack total, 2 on a guy high on purple drank, 4 against browns and 2 against eagles one of those was a wildkat vick run of -1 yard. hopefully they sign the great lights out next year

By: VegasBronco

VegasBronco — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:32:37 +0000

Non Bronco fans are trolling because Denver is the class organization that they would love to be like!

By: rykelly06

rykelly06 — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:31:52 +0000

The 49ers gave Patrick Willis a big new contract as well. Nice try though, Florio.

By: steelcurtaind

steelcurtaind — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:30:35 +0000

About time..
Lil James Harrison Jr getting paid!
He’s worth that money cause them two guys get HELD ON EVERY EVERY EVERY FLIPPIN SNAP!
CALL HOLDING!! these two men are leaps n bounds beyond the rest of the league at OUTSIDE LB
regardless of scheme… (yes haynesworth!)

By: 2010_DHB_70rec_900yds_10tds

2010_DHB_70rec_900yds_10tds — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:19:59 +0000

just looked into it i see why they sighned him. In last year he had his best game by far against the browns( 7 tackles 4 sacks). There getting a roster together now so when they see them in the playoffs this year there ready.

By: Junior

Junior — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:08:27 +0000

Plus, Tebow revealed that he’d play for a bag of peanuts and a pat on the back so they gave his money to Elvis. True story…
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That must be why he told his agent to get a deal done early so there would be no speculation of a hold out. Oh wait, he still isn’t signed? No way TIM does a deal any less than where he is slotted.

By: 2010_DHB_70rec_900yds_10tds

2010_DHB_70rec_900yds_10tds — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:02:30 +0000

all that money for 47 tackles 17 sacks ? thats like paying a baseball player 150 million to hit 40 homeruns and bat .175. Now if only san diego give that kind of money to marriman.

By: raiderrob21

raiderrob21 — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:49:30 +0000

One good year and you get a monster contract? I would have payed and kept Cutler and Marshall. This guy is a situational player and a tweener. As a Raider fan, GREAT MOVE Broncos! Nothing but turmoil over this bad move for years to come.

By: chemicalxv

chemicalxv — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:32:20 +0000

Oh yeah, one more thing:
17 of his 47 tackles were sacks. Which means he had 30 tackles.
That’s less than 2 per game. Horrendous.

By: chemicalxv

chemicalxv — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:30:07 +0000

What a waste of money for someone who’s nothing better than a situational pass rusher, which you can’t have at OLB in a 3-4. The OLB needs to be good against the run.
The guy put up less than 50 tackles last year. That’s absolutely terrible for a LB.

By: Insomniac

Insomniac — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:07:16 +0000

When a contract has guarantees for injury, does that mean it’s guaranteed for injury at any time during the contract? So if Dumervil were to have a career ending injury this season, the team would still owe him the money in future years that was guaranteed for injury regardless of whether they cut him?
This seems like a good contract for the Broncos. They are paying him a RFA salary for one more year before they really pay him. They didn’t even have to give up any up front signing bonus money. Wouldn’t a lot of teams jump at doing deals like this?

By: Cerberus

Cerberus — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:37:33 +0000

Wow! 6 Years $61M! And they called Al Davis crazy when he locked up the best defensive player in the NFL for $45M. Bwahahahahahahaha!!!
I guess that makes Davis crazy like a fox!

By: Steeler fans are tools

Steeler fans are tools — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:58:29 +0000

Don’t blow it on cocaine and jewelry

By: milehiclown

milehiclown — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:27:03 +0000

Where are all the turds who were claiming that McD was gonna run Dume out too?
THIS IS GREAT NEWS.

By: smithopher

smithopher — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:20:22 +0000

Yeah man, Dumervil needed a contract like this.

By: DonTerrelli

DonTerrelli — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:45:45 +0000

and they’ll release him next year so they dont have to pay him.

By: Iain

Iain — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 05:04:14 +0000

So the same rolling skill guarantee that D’Brickashaw Ferguson got and all guaranteed for injury. My understanding is that such portion of this as is fully guaranteed now needs to fit under the 2009 cap. I can only guess that the rolling guarantees mean that those amounts are not considered as fully guaranteed now, so this could be a template for a Revis deal.
In doing the Ferguson deal the Jets applied the same rolling skill guarantees so that whilst money will become guaranteed in the future, it is not guaranteed at this point. What the Broncos have done is take this principle and add in a full injury guarantee. The effect seems to be that though the sums are fully guaranteed for injury now the fact that they are not fully guaranteed for skill yet means they do not come under the reallocation provisions.
It may be that this is a way forward for the Jets and Revis, though whether he would reject the rolling skill guarantees anyway and demand a large signing bonus is unclear.

By: Mustard

Mustard — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 04:53:46 +0000

Proof of collusion!PROOF OF COLLUSION!

By: Britton31

Britton31 — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:41:30 +0000

Maybe the Broncos are just paying Players in which they know, won’t be blowing their paychecks on Alcohol and Legal Consults/Fees….

By: chris

chris — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 02:09:05 +0000

not worth the money

By: prophet of the light

prophet of the light — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:47:57 +0000

More money than Terrell Suggs was guaranteed by 5 million but 2 million fewer total dollars.
I don’t know if that’s over-paying or not. I guess he deserves it though.

By: J. Clayton

J. Clayton — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:42:43 +0000

The Los Angeles Dumervils.

By: Sow Crates

Sow Crates — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:40:34 +0000

I’m glad Florio makes a strong effort to probe what NFL contracts ACTUALLY say about what a player is likely to receie in a deal. He hands out a lot of fluff, but this is the only place I know of that will take a deal that has a high dollar amount then do the work to show that nowhere near that amount will ever be paid.

By: covercorner7

covercorner7 — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:39:11 +0000

So far looks to be a very good deal for the player.