Little resigns; Adkins goes to Patriots

Earl Little signed a 5-year deal, while Chris Adkins goes to the Patriots. Little is a nice player, and as long as the team payed a reasonable price this is a good move. Adkins is pretty good too but for whatever reason the team didn't make an effort to retain him. I'm in no position to argue with them either; Adkins name came up on special teams quite a bit, but frankly we've already got a team full of potentially great special teamers... we really need some starters.

Oh yeah, it was noted in a few places that C Brown's 1 million bonus would be paid by the team next week. They really still need to do a full renegotiation with him, but in the short term the team gets some cap room since the bonus can be prorated over the remaining years on the contract. And even more than that, we need C Brown to be healthy and play well or else it's a mess no matter what they do contract-wise.