Unless it's a QB, you get maybe 5 years with a player. Even if you're right, you're throwing away 20% of the Pats time with Jones, and at reasonable cost. Also, players on their option year tend to perform better.
And they can always franchise him if he becomes lights out.
If you were GM of the Broncos, you would have traded away Von Miller last year and now speculating that your draft pick might get you, finally, to the promised land.
Maybe the Pats aren't high on Jones right now - the drug issue or something. If that's the case, they should move him, but ONLY if that's the case.
No, in actuality the Broncos screwed up. They should have long termed him. Now he has created CAP hell for them but.......as we know, the Broncos are never under any of the same CAP laws because of Roger "Captain Integrity (love that one who's ever idea it was)" Goodell does not want them vanquished.
So if we want CAP hell we wait for the tremendously too much number and take our lumps with a Comp pick.....or be very smart. We know he will miss some games in 2016. The over/under says Jones misses at least three games in 2016. There are three scenarios to mention that are very fair on both sides
Option one: The Cardinals missed out on a pass rusher, we missed out on a WR. They are stacked at WR and we are at DE. Michael Floyd is under the same contract timing as Jones. I say we can get Floyd for less money at the end of the year than jones if they play equally as well and I say Floyd plays more games.
Option two: The Browns fans are heading for the torches and pitchforks. Not only do they not have a QB, they have a clown they drafted as a pretend QB they have to cut and just lost 4 starters yesterday. I don't know who the new GM is, but he said he wants to keep his guys and guess what....they said see ya! Now Josh Gordon wants out. As a PR perspective, to move a player that might fall off the wagon is not a bad thing pending the return for the Browns who have the CAP room.
The Pats are not going to give up a DE whose market was set at $17mm by Vernon yesterday, even though they know he will never resign with them., just for a single player who is one "Communion Cup sip" away from suspension. If Gordon fails, the Browns get nada for him. Trading him is realistic for the Browns pending return. Gordon still has a value although guarded. But the Pats would need a much higher valued piece included. CB Joe Haden makes sense. He is a gamble with two concussions last year but is healthy now. This is a fair trade for both Teams and no one can spin that. It must be for the pair of players not one. The Browns come up with a prized possession to appease the fan base in Chandler Jones.
Option three: The Bears have to resign Jeffry at mega bucks next year as his tender was $14.5.They signed Kevin White to a $16mm contract and has never played a down yet because of shin surgery. Those two alone will make more than Gronk , Edelman and Amendola in 2016. The Bears are desperate for pass rush. Would Kevin White be available for the right price of a young pass rusher? White alone for Jones is not enough , but White and a #2 or #3 I would do.
It's a proven young guy in Jones with great 12.5 sack resume last year versus an unproven first round pick gamble. We can afford White and let him develop this year. It was good he had a camp under his belt. This is also a very fair trade.
The alternative: That 3rd round comp in 2017 better be a player worth $17mm for all you "let's keep Jones and see what happens" Cousins.
DW Toys
P.S Would you consider Hartline and Haden? Thoughts?
