{"id":1145,"date":"2008-03-03T14:11:30","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T19:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/03\/03\/warrick-is-out-turner-is-in-free-agency-day-three\/"},"modified":"2008-03-03T14:11:30","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T19:11:30","slug":"warrick-is-out-turner-is-in-free-agency-day-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/03\/03\/warrick-is-out-turner-is-in-free-agency-day-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Warrick is out.  Turner is in.  (Free Agency Day Three)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the Falcons signed Michael Turner.\u00a0 Turner\u2019s contract is somewhere in the neighborhood of $34.5 million, for six-years, with $15 million guaranteed.\u00a0 From a value standpoint, this is very comparable to Dunn, whose contract was valued at $28.5 million (I think for six years and I am not sure how much guaranteed money).<\/p>\n<p>Today Warrick Dunn was released by the Falcons.\u00a0 I have read that this will free up $3 million towards the salary cap.\u00a0 Signing Turner now, gives the Falcons some more free agency flexibility, but maybe more importantly it gives Atlanta plenty of options on draft day.\u00a0 For starters, they no longer have to go after McFadden, who may be a once in a generation player or he could be a bust.\u00a0 Hopefully the Falcons will go after Jake Long (OT, Michigan), and go QB and DE with their two second picks.\u00a0 Things will look even brighter if Atlanta manages to dump Hall for more picks.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the Falcons signed Michael Turner.\u00a0 Turner\u2019s contract is somewhere in the neighborhood of $34.5 million, for six-years, with $15 million guaranteed.\u00a0 From a value standpoint, this is very comparable to Dunn, whose contract was valued at $28.5 million (I think for six years and I am not sure how much guaranteed money). Today Warrick &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2008\/03\/03\/warrick-is-out-turner-is-in-free-agency-day-three\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Warrick is out.  Turner is in.  (Free Agency Day Three)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}