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Cleveland Browns (2014 Season)

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If this guy signs just do not let him room with Josh Gordon
The undrafted free agent played the 2010 and 2011 seasons with the Detroit Lions. His second NFL season produced career highs in games (11), starts (three), tackles (31) and passes defensed (11).

But the Lions cut him in 2012 after Berry was arrested twice in the offseason – once for allegedly pointing a gun at three people in Harrisburg, Pa., and another time for suspicion of DUI.
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Report: Cornerback Aaron Berry visits with the Cleveland Browns
 
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Alex Mack still getting no interest

Alex Mack’s agents believe that an offer sheet for the transition-tagged center can be crafted that the Browns won’t match. Alex Mack’s agents have yet to find any takers, even though getting Mack would entail no compensation to Cleveland.

A full week into free agency, Mack has had no visits and by all appearances has generated no interest. And for good reason. With the poison pill eliminated under the 2011 labor deal, there’s no way to craft a long-term deal that puts the Browns in a corner without putting the team that signs Mack to an offer sheet into that same corner.
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Any team that signs Mack to an offer sheet like that risks creating the perception that it’s not happy with the current starting center or that it anticipates pursuing a new center in 2015. There’s also a risk that the freedom the team helps finagle will blow up on that team next year, if Mack signs with another team in the same division.

Regardless, Mack’s best play would be to sign the transition tender before the Browns realize that they’re offering to pay $10 million for one year to a center and rescind the offer. If no offer is going to come from another team, Mack needs to realize that, if the tender is yanked in April, May, or June, the money on the open market won’t be anywhere close to $10 million per year.

Entire article: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/03/18/alex-mack-still-getting-no-interest/
 
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ScriptOhio said:
Alex Mack still getting no interest

Alex Mack’s agents believe that an offer sheet for the transition-tagged center can be crafted that the Browns won’t match. Alex Mack’s agents have yet to find any takers, even though getting Mack would entail no compensation to Cleveland.

A full week into free agency, Mack has had no visits and by all appearances has generated no interest. And for good reason. With the poison pill eliminated under the 2011 labor deal, there’s no way to craft a long-term deal that puts the Browns in a corner without putting the team that signs Mack to an offer sheet into that same corner.
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Any team that signs Mack to an offer sheet like that risks creating the perception that it’s not happy with the current starting center or that it anticipates pursuing a new center in 2015. There’s also a risk that the freedom the team helps finagle will blow up on that team next year, if Mack signs with another team in the same division.

Regardless, Mack’s best play would be to sign the transition tender before the Browns realize that they’re offering to pay $10 million for one year to a center and rescind the offer. If no offer is going to come from another team, Mack needs to realize that, if the tender is yanked in April, May, or June, the money on the open market won’t be anywhere close to $10 million per year.

Entire article: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/03/18/alex-mack-still-getting-no-interest/
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Could Mack's agent have played this any worse from a PR perspective? His client has generated zero interest, and he's made so many public comments about crafting a contract that the browns won't match it makes him look stupid. It's obvious Mack wants out of cleveland something awful. But he's going to have to suck it up and play for $10 million this year (yes that was sarcasm).

Part of me hopes that he doesn't sign the tender until after the draft, and Cleveland drafts a center, signs someone like Will Montgomery, then rescinds Mack's tag and he's totally dicked.
 
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bigdog3300 said:
Like tsteele said, under the redone CBA the OL franchise/transition tag lumps all OL together, so OC's are treated the same as OT's who drive the tag prices.
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Shrewd negotiating on the union's part. A team would be stupid to tender a center at $10M when the going rate for top centers is just $5M. You would have thought Mack and his agent would have snapped up the $10M in a heartbeat. And if they didn',t the union would pressure him to take it to drive up the going rate for all the other centers, etc.
 
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ScriptOhio said:
Shrewd negotiating on the union's part. A team would be stupid to tender a center at $10M when the going rate for top centers is just $5M. You would have thought Mack and his agent would have snapped up the $10M in a heartbeat. And if they didn',t the union would pressure him to take it to drive up the going rate for all the other centers, etc.
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It's still possible if after a month or so and Mack hasn't signed either an offer sheet from another franchise OR signed the transition tag that the Browns can drop the transition tag and sign Mack to a long term deal, which I think is most likely. Once other teams fill up their needs via the draft and FA, Mack's agent will be left with no choice but to crawl back and hopefully sign something like a 5/28 deal. Yes, that's a lot for a center, but I'm willing to overpay a little to keep him long term.
 
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Newest Cleveland Browns WR Andrew Hawkins knows the value of hard work on and off field

Hawkins' sinuous route to his first big NFL payday included working in a Toledo wind turbine factory, caddying at a country club, appearing on a football reality show and serving an internship for the Detroit Lions -- who were grooming the 5-foot-7 receiver to be a scout.
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The Dawg Pound is going to love this guy...and frankly from watching Cleveland and Cincinnati games last year I think he will be a production upgrade over Davone Bess. Hawkins is getting $13.6 million over 4 years compared to the 3 year extension they gave Bess at $11.5 million ($5.75 million of which was guaranteed...was there no psych eval?).
 
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