Mankins Ready to Sit Out Season

[Aso]

Its a guard. They can sign one off the street and not miss a beat.

You're WAY undervaluing guards. Mankins is a top 3 guard and no one off the street can sniff what he has done. Also my bet is there aren't a lot of 300 pound men that can run like he can and block for those screen passes the Patriots love to use so much.

[Sigona]

Jets 2010 Season =

Between the car crash thread and now this, your suck-age on the forums has been at an all time high. :bored:

[celtsxpatsxsox]

The Saints did indeed skew the market and the Patriots probably want to pay Brady before they pay Mankins. I think he should've just signed the franchise tag. With the Kaczur injury though it appears he at least has some leverage.

With the way the line has played in the 2 preseason games I would say the Mankins has pretty much lost most of the leverage that he had.

[Aso]

Why do people keep saying the pats franchised him? They didn't and they didn't need to nor likely would they have, because the salary amount for a franchised OL is nearly 11 million. Franchise tag is for players you would no longer have under contract, he WOULD have been a UFA and eligible for the tag if not for the CBA expiring, which made him still a restricted free agent.

Since he is an RFA all they had to do was offer him a tender, which they chose to offer the highest possible tender that pays 3.3 million and means if anyone else signed him they would owe the pats 1st and 3rd draft picks. That's a far cry from 11 mil for a franchised OL which he MIGHT have been if not for labor strife, and hell people bitch about being franchised all the time too. And it's also far from the 6.5 mil a year the patriots are lowballed him at for a new contract.

I assumed he was because someone said he was.

[Yawkey Way]

Aug 25, 2010


By Tom E. Curran
CSNNE.com

Frank Bauer? Wrong again.

Twelve days ago, the agent for Logan Mankins predicted the Patriots would keep escalating the standoff with the Pro Bowl guard by sending him a letter warning that he'd be put on the team's "roster-exempt" list.

Speaking to Albert Breer of The Boston Globe, Bauer said, "We haven't got it yet, but it'll come."

Bauer added, "[The Patriots] don't care . . . I would expect them to do everything nasty that they can."

The Patriots were eligible to put Mankins on the list after their second preseason game. If they had, Mankins would have to serve a three-game regular-season suspension when he returned. That was last Thursday.

But, as far as I can tell, the Patriots didn't send the letter. And they haven't placed Mankins on the roster-exempt list. Entreaties to several sources have been met with the same general reply: "Mankins is not under contract."

Neither are Vincent Jackson and Marcus McNeill of the Chargers, however. They are in identical situations to Mankins - restricted free agents refusing to sign their tenders - and San Diego opted to put them on the roster exempt list.

Putting Mankins on a roster-exempt list seemed pretty counterproductive to me in the first place. If the sides worked out an 11th-hour deal on the eve of the season, every bit of satisfaction both sides would have would be washed away by the fact Mankins has to sit out until October.

Who's that help?

Bauer's been scattershotting his way through this mess. The same day he told Breer the Patriots were going to send Mankins the letter, he told Karen Guregian at The Boston Herald that the Patriots asked him on May 4 if Mankins would be amenable to a deal a little larger than the Saints Jahri Evans.

Since that day, Bauer said, the Patriots haven't gotten back to him.

The Evans deal was signed May 5. Ooop.

And why, pray tell, would the Patriots seek the okay to pay Mankins more than Evans, who just signed the richest deal for a guard in NFL history?

No wonder the whole negotiation seems a little screwed up, no?

Just another contrasting opinion from Tom E. Curran, who is usually spot on when it comes to the Patriots. I agree with Super Kevin, kind of. I'll use the Patriots as an example. Stephen Neal has been hurt, a lot. Stephen Neal is also valued as a good RG, but him not being in the line-up compared to say Nick Kaczur who would move inside or a back up filling in has never really screamed to me as a concern area. While not having Mankins pulling/out on the screens will hurt, I don't think it's as big of a concern as not having Revis or Jackson(duh).