Hey, it’s NFL free agency and very few people in the media know what the hell they’re talking about. That won’t stop them from reporting shit, though!
Case in point, Bryan Bulaga.
There’s what seems to be a growing list of teams interested in Bulaga beyond the Green Bay Packers — Buffalo, Washington, Jacksonville, Tampa and maybe Tennessee.
In fact, there was even a report that Washington had signed Bulaga. It came from a fake Ian Rapoport account, but managed to fool at least one tool in the media, who reported it as truth.
Then there was this earlier today.
Sounds like Bulaga back to #Packers.
— Darren Wolfson (@DWolfsonKSTP) March 9, 2015
The first thing you should be asking yourself here is, who the hell is Darren Wolfson? Probably not anyone you should be getting your Packers news from.
He’s a local sports guy in Minneapolis.
Here’s what we do know.
Bulaga is looking for potentially as much as $8 million per season. That’s probably more than what the Packers anticipated paying him. It’s also more than you’d like to pay for a right tackle, especially one that isn’t an All-Pro right tackle.
Right now, the highest-paid right tackle in the league is the Colts’ Gosder Cherilus, who makes $7 million annually.
So the market, in all of its stupidity, is going to force some team to overpay for a good, not great, offensive lineman who doesn’t even play a premium position.
Consider this.
Some shitbag named Jermey Parnell just got signed to a five-year, $32 million contract by the Jacksonville Jaguars. That’s more than $6 million per season for a tackle that has started all of seven games in his six-year NFL career.
Brilliant signing, assholes!
This is why you are perennial winners!
Anyway, my point here is, since an asshole organization like the Jaguars gave a bag of crap like Parnell $6 million a year and Bulaga is probably twice as good as Parnell, there’s no reason he shouldn’t demand $8 million a year.
Should the Packers pay a right tackle that much?
Not unless he’s the second coming of Forrest Gregg. Bryan Bulaga sure as shit ain’t that.
Does that mean the Packers aren’t going to do it?
No.
Bulaga will get his money somewhere and it may very well be in Green Bay.