8.5 mil per....

I figure seabass gets 6mi perl 10-14 mil gauranteed?

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/03/18/jake-long-agrees-to-terms-with-rams/

Vollmer- 5years/$35M

Doubt he gets that from us... Just my opinion.

Long, the top LT on the market, sets the market for all Tackles, especially Andre Smith, the top RT. Seabass is ranked somewhere between Andre Smith and Gosder Cherilus. Gosder already signed for 5years/$34.5... i don't see Seabass accepting $6M/per. Smith will probably get $7.5M/per.

Vollmer might even be the #1 RT on the market including Smith depending on who you ask. 

The Pats offer will be nowhere near that for Vollmer, doubt if BB will give him more than 6 millions a year for more than 3 years.

 

No one will pay him 6mill a year

...He's too much a risk health wise. Most of his contract will be incentive based with the only guarentee being, 1 Asian massage girl twice a week from Gronks groupie pool! 

LT is 8-10M/yr for the top end. RT is 5-7M for the top end. With Vollmers health problems a team has to have a good back-up for 2 to 4 games every year so I doubt he gets more than 5-6M with incentives. I would guess the Pats offer is 5M with maybe a total of 10M guaranteed. He may get a better offer, but not necessarily. RT is home to failed left tackles and there are a fair number of failed LT.

That's one of the problems.  Seabass isn't a failed LT as far as ability goes.  He can play that spot and this is what makes him valuable.  The main problem is his health and ability to stay on the field.  which hurts him whether you're playing LT or RT.     

Given what Long got, I don't see Seabass getting a deal that isn't loaded with conditions re: his health from BB.  Perhaps elsewhere but not here.  Be surprised if it were $6 mil per.

Sounds like your opinion of smith is way higher then mine.  That guy isn't worth 3m per.  The true definition of a bust.  I think it took him 3 years to see the field he broke his foot twice I think.  He must have stepped in some Carson Palmer dust. 

Phins and Eagles going hard on Vollmer

I see him getting $6 million gauranteed . . .  and a 4 year deal worth $25 million but more loaded on the back end so the team that signs him can back out if his back acts up . . . thought about this a week (weak) back!

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ESPN Boston believes the Patriots' "best hope" to re-sign free agent RT Sebastian Vollmer is on a one-year deal.

In response to TFB12's comment:

Wouldn't surprise me if this is what ends up happening.

In response to ATJ's comment:

I agree, the only bad thing about this is it will be a big cap hit without being able to spread the money around for multiple years.  But then again, with his past injury problems a multi year deal might not be in the Pats best interest.

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In response to mia76's comment:

RT is home to failed LT? never heard that one before...why do u say this?

The best tackles in college (as in the pros) end up on the left and the best of the best get drafted as LTs in the 1st round. When they do not make it on the left side as pros, they get shifted to the right side in hopes they will hold up better there. I belive a few of the highest paid RTs currently are still on their initial 'LT' rookie contracts (pre rookie cap.) Few RTs are ever shifted to LT unless like Martin in Miami were drafted as insurance for a LT but fill in at RT waiting for the LT opening.

Of course some players are specifically drafted as RTs and someone might try Vollmer on the left, but they aren't likely to pay him a LT premium based on a few games from early in his career.

In response to mia76's comment:

got it - sounds plausible

I think Vollmer is a goner. No way he gets paid near that level or close to it.

In response to RidingWithTheKing's comment:

Cannon was a steal in round two? Wow, for a football expert like yourself, you'd think you would know what round he went in...

In response to mthurl's comment:

LOL

Left tackles get more money than right tackles-5 years at 32 million 10 guranteed with options for Pats to drop after 3 years.