Rolando McClain Cut

[GingerP]

Re: Rolando McClain Cut

We should be bringing in McClain.

He hasn't actually been cut yet.

[IlluminatusUIUC]

Re: Rolando McClain Cut

We should be bringing in McClain.

I'd wait until he clears waivers. He's still got a first rounder contract I believe.

[Bill Cody]

Re: Rolando McClain Cut

I'd wait until he clears waivers. He's still got a first rounder contract I believe.

I'd take him on waivers

[GingerP]

Re: Rolando McClain Cut

I'd take him on waivers

It would be relatively cheap for the rest of this year, if he is cut. His salary this year is only $970K, so it would only cost $57,059 per week for the rest of this season.

But... he hasn't actually been waived yet.

He is more expensive for the rest of his contract. His salaries are $4M in 2012 and $5.8M in 2013, with an addtional $250K in workout bonus each year. He isn't worth that, based on how he has played in the NFL, and his actions off-the-field make him pretty radioactive as well.

[IlluminatusUIUC]

Re: Rolando McClain Cut

I'd take him on waivers

Yeah, as GingerP noted his contract escalates and I wouldn't want that. Plus I'd want the chance to work him out and see if he meshes. It sounds like his pending waiver was partially an attitude issue.

[Bill Cody]

Re: Rolando McClain Cut

It would be relatively cheap for the rest of this year, if he is cut. His salary this year is only $970K, so it would only cost $57,059 per week for the rest of this season.

But... he hasn't actually been waived yet.

He is more expensive for the rest of his contract. His salaries are $4M in 2012 and $5.8M in 2013, with an addtional $250K in workout bonus each year. He isn't worth that, based on how he has played in the NFL, and his actions off-the-field make him pretty radioactive as well.

You have to have him on your team 1st to have a chance to redo the contract. Noone is going to pay him those #'s, his agent would know this

[GingerP]

Re: Rolando McClain Cut

You have to have him on your team 1st to have a chance to redo the contract. Noone is going to pay him those #'s, his agent would know this

Actually, it is worse than I thought. $1.535M of his $4M salary in 2013 and $2.1M of his $5.8M salary in 2014 are fully guaranteed. If he is waived nobody is going to touch that contract. The Raiders are going to be on the hook for that money if they cut him, unless there is some sort of offset language for a contact he would sign with another team.

Given the guarantees, i doubt the Raiders cut him unless they feel he is such a pain-in-the-rear they are willing to pay him to leave. If he is waived, nobody will pick up that contract. He will clear waivers and try to sign with someone else.

[ThunderGun]

Re: Rolando McClain Cut

Add SS Taylor Mays who hangs out with CIN these days. SF used the #49 pick on the (in some minds) projected 1st rounder in 2010. They cut him after his rookie year. His chief skill is the late hit.

Well then they didn't need him because they have Whitner for that.

[jamze132]

Re: Rolando McClain Cut

I don't see a reason not to put in a claim for him. He wouldn't be the worst LB on our team so he would be an improvement.

[stuckincincy]

Re: Rolando McClain Cut

Well then they didn't need him because they have Whitner for that.

Heh - true.

[Slim]

Re: Rolando McClain Cut

Ro is not at Raiders practice today, and it sounds like he'll be cut a 1 pm PST.

[kishoph]

Re: Rolando McClain Cut

Ro is not at Raiders practice today, and it sounds like he'll be cut a 1 pm PST.

He hasn't been cut, he's been suspended for two games for conduct detrimental to the team.

[Slim]

Re: Rolando McClain Cut

He hasn't been cut, he's been suspended for two games for conduct detrimental to the team.

Yep, I was just repeating what Jason Cole (I think it was him) had said on Twitter. He's usually on the money.

[Night Train]

Re: Rolando McClain Cut

Every highlight film shows him looking like Sheppard. Getting tied up inside and missing tackles.

" I've heard of him ! " doesn't cut it. What he did at Alabama doesn't matter anymore.