Around the League

For this blog, I am going to be covering all of the latest happenings throughout the league, with every team. The big news is the signing of Ndamukang Suh by the Miami Dolphins. The fins signed the big star defensive lineman to a 6 year 114 million dollar deal. With this signing, Detroit is loosing arguably their best defensive player and the anchor to their amazing defensive line. With Nick Fairley also a free agent, the lions are going to have to make some good signings in order to boost their D-line to where it was in the past. The Dolphins lost Paul Soliai in free agency and needed a defensive lineman that could control everyone up front. Suh has been a 4 time 1st team all-pro selection while also making 4 pro bowls during his career up to date. When talking about the money aspect of things, I think that the Dolphins payed him a little bit too much money. Even though Suh is one of the best defensive lineman in the league right now, 19 million dollars per year is a little bit too much for anybody on the defensive side of the ball. But, because the Dolphins had the money, I guess that they could do what they want with it, even though a chunk of it just went to one player.

Suh will be a big addition to the Fins defense- Pic from www.suh90.com

Lets also talk about the trade between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Buffalo Bills. This trade sent all-pro running back, Lesean Mccoy, to the Buffalo Bills in exchange for young and talented linebacker, Kiko Alonso. This trade was one of the most shocking in the past couple of years. It was very appalling to hear of this trade, because you never see the face of a franchise get traded for a player that has not necessarily proven himself in the league yet. I understand that the main reason for this trade was because of the cap space problems that the Eagles are facing. They didn't have much to work with before this trade, which freed up about 7 million dollars in cap room. This will allow the Eagles to sign another well known player to their roster, if they feel that it is needed. On the Bills side, I think that the decision to bring in Lesean Mccoy to their offense was a great one! they haven't had a prolific star on offense for a while, and they all of a sudden just got one of the best running backs to play in this game in the past few years. With C.J Spiller in the rotation as well, the bills will have a very deep core in the back field, and are going to need to use these tools in the right way in order to bring themselves to the top once again.

So in the first couple weeks of the offseason, there have been many signings and trades throughout the league that will be big in the upcoming season. I can't wait to see what else will happen in the next few weeks because there is definitely going to be some more big moves that will end up affecting the teams in this league in a big way. I will be posting more blogs about the rest of the league and will be up to date on the stuff that is going on around the league.