Per a league source, Ward has agreed to terms on a four-year, $17 million deal.

He’ll earn $6 million guaranteed in the first year, $9.25 million over the first two, and $13 million over the first three.

That’s a crying shame. Could’ve offered him 4 years at $20 with a $8 signing bonus with $10 more guaranteed. Easily, in fact. The apathy seeping out of the front office is heartbreaking. It has nothing to do with location or winning. It’s money. That’s all it takes to get these free agents.

What’s worse, only a couple of million would make all the difference in the world. It’s not like they have to offer A-Rod money.

He’d be expecting too much guranteed….

what we really need is to start Chris “Fumbles” Perry and then hope that around game 8 of the season Benson gets cut again for off-field issues so we can sign him and finish 4-12 (ya no tie this year boys tough luck)

Then we’d have a bargain and Benson could rush for meaningless yards in meaningless games when were already 0-8 and the Steelers already have the division locked up

actually on second thought we should have tried to get Hanson out of Detroit or Lechler out of Oakland. They know alot about punting and the money is right!

we could have not been a$$holes and signed one of the million backs out there in free agency and not have to take Beanie “don’t call me Chris” Wells so pathetically high. Can Adrian Peterson re-enter the draft please

Obviously it appears Mike Brown is attempting the Band-aid approach with Coles. Heck if we can’t re-sing Housh why not take on somebody elses mess (theres a reason players get cut)

If Coles isn’t a quick fix, I expect Henry to step up, although he is much like Johnson in the way he runs routes and is more of a deep threat then a possesion reciever like TJ was. Cladwell is probably a season away but right now he’s a sufficient 3rd WR and I havent seen enough of Simpson to form a judgement. Holt is a special teams player more than a reciever per say. I think the bulk of the load will go on Henry if he can stay out of trouble and focus on-field he’s a decent number 2 compliment. All this hinges on Carson staying healthy and Ocho shutting his mouth.

You guys wouldn’t want to take our other receiver off our hands, would you Eagle_Man71? Say Chad for either one of your first rounders(#21? #28?)? Don’t let last year fool you. Johnson’s poor numbers were completely the result of an inept offensive line never giving a noodle-armed backup QB enough time to even think about throwing him a ball at all. He’s still very much a playmaker. I’m just ready for the youth movement, the soon-to-be-dubbed, “No Name Skill Set”.