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It's an organizational philosophy not to, though, except in rare cases. Back when Belichick was talking organizational theory while fishing with Jimmy Johnson that was something Johnson recommended. Whether it's good, who knows.
Players to tend to play well in their contract year - there's never a contract year to get out of them if you extend them early.
It seems to me; it would be cheaper in the long run.
There is also the problem of cash over cap which will still effectively limit the number of signing bonuses the Pat's FO is willing to absorb in any given season. They need their re-signings to be staggered rather than grouped, and draft year pretty much sets that schedule in process. There will be exceptions for exceptional players, but those are few and far between. And there is also the matter of unit budgets. There will continue to be turnover because as Pioli tries to remind those of us willing to listen, you simply cannot have more than a handful of players making top ten, let alone top 5 salaries under this model at any given time.
Brady's situation was truly unique as he was entering the final year of a 6th rounders three year deal as superbowl MVP and newly annointed franchise QB. And he agreed to what was truly an incremental deal that had to be revisited after the third ring. And he took deals well below market both times. Deion had the same kind of offers made beginning in 2005, and he passed. And Seymore opened Pandora's box with his camp holdout 2 years early. They compromised to placate him, and he played ball the following year on an extension, but they can't let them all expect that any more than they can expect them all to cooperate.
So while they value them all, they won't allow themselves to loose sight of how each was acquired and they won't over value them as a result. Fans need to appreciate that, but since we never know all that they know it's just not in our nature to.
Just wondering since we lost Branch and are trying to resign both Asante and Graham try to extend some players.
Wouldn't it make sense to give Wilfork and others a extension?
Why wait till their contracts are up?
thoughts?