If Hightower walks what is the best option?

[denverpatsfan]

8-8 season if they don't have a defense.

 

[PatriotsPimp136]

Examples???? Or shut the f**k up

Not examples but he's still butthurt over his bff being traded. Just the way he talked after the superbowl. I want guys that wanna be part of this team. Bruschi he ain't. I am sure the pats will show him some love. It's about him wanting to take a couple of million dollars less. I say 12 million's good money for him to start with.

 

[Ring 6]

hes gotta be egoo...such a big egooo.. lol who cares. he should take the most money, unless we offer him very close to the highest

Shouldn't he take money, where he would like to live, the defensive system, the coaching staff, the quality of the team, the direction the team is going in, how he will be used, the length of the contract, the upfront money, the guarantees, the teams history in dealing with 8-10 year veterans who are on the back end of a contract, and his opportunity for endorsements, etc, into account or is it really biggest contract, f every thing else?

 

[PatriotsPimp136]

Agreed, HT aint going anywhere.

15 million dollar tag. Expensive tag. This team has to sign other free agents

 

[Ring 6]

Not examples but he's still butthurt over his bff being traded. Just the way he talked after the superbowl. I want guys that wanna be part of this team. Bruschi he ain't. I am sure the pats will show him some love. It's about him wanting to take a couple of million dollars less. I say 12 million's good money for him to start with.

Yeah he's a better player than bruschi was.
I love how people can take a guy saying it sucked that his friend was traded, watch him play through injuries and play like a beast leading the defense for 2 SB titles in 3 years and make a moronic comment like I want guys that want to be part of the team, as if you are more committed to the team, it's success and making sacrifices for it than he is. M
Come on you are better than this.

 

[PatriotsPimp136]

hes gotta be egoo...such a big egooo.. lol who cares. he should take the most money, unless we offer him very close to the highest

I doubt bill want's to pay hightower 14 to 15 million dollars. See ya!!

 

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

It seem's like hightower has gotten a big ego. I don't know if the pats would offered 12 million but that's a respectable per year for hightower.

This is how the game works, folks. Basically this is the way it works with every high-caliber NFL free agent. The Patriots make an offer that is below the number they know Hightower could receive on the market. In turn, Hightower starts pumping his chest and (correctly) taking the stance that he won't take any hometown discount and wants to get paid as much as possible. In turn, some kind of number will be established as they negotiate. Patriots do not set the market, though, and they prefer to wait to see free agency numbers.

Almost certainly, the Patriots will then franchise Hightower, and Hightower will probably say he isn't happy and will play though the tag if he must, but he will be gone the next year. The free agent frenzy will happen, and then Hightower will see the reality that he's a major injury away from losing potentially tens of millions of dollars. They'll go back to the bargaining table, now with a better idea of fair value, and they'll come to a deal.

This is the same way it's gone down with Wifork, Mankins, and many others, plus too many players to name on other teams. It's how the franchise tag works. A lot of posturing, low-balling, high-balling, and ultimately coming to a long-term deal that is a lot of money, even if not very top top dollar.

 

[Ring 6]

8-8 season if they don't have a defense.

?
They just had the number 1 scoring defense in the NFL. They won the SB in 2014 with a good defense, turned over 60% of it (snap wise) and won another going 17-2 and you think it signing 1 player makes them 8-8, which they haven't been in 17 years?

Mmmmmkay

 

[PatriotsPimp136]

Yeah he's a better player than bruschi was.
I love how people can take a guy saying it sucked that his friend was traded, watch him play through injuries and play like a beast leading the defense for 2 SB titles in 3 years and make a moronic comment like I want guys that want to be part of the team, as if you are more committed to the team, it's success and making sacrifices for it than he is. M
Come on you are better than this.

I am not saying he shouldn't get paid but at what price? Bill probably has a limit. This team has plenty of cap space but they wanna make other moves as well. High's very important and should be priority number 1 but bill obviously has a price range.

 

[PatriotsPimp136]

This is how the game works, folks. Basically this is the way it works with every high-caliber NFL free agent. The Patriots make an offer that is below the number they know Hightower could receive on the market. In turn, Hightower starts pumping his chest and (correctly) taking the stance that he won't take any hometown discount and wants to get paid as much as possible. In turn, some kind of number will be established as they negotiate. Patriots do not set the market, though, and they prefer to wait to see free agency numbers.

Almost certainly, the Patriots will then franchise Hightower, and Hightower will probably say he isn't happy and will play though the tag if he must, but he will be gone the next year. The free agent frenzy will happen, and then Hightower will see the reality that he's a major injury away from losing potentially tens of millions of dollars. They'll go back to the bargaining table, now with a better idea of fair value, and they'll come to a deal.

This is the same way it's gone down with Wifork, Mankins, and many others, plus too imany players to name on other teams. It's how the franchise tag works. A lot of posturing, low-balling, high-balling, and ultimately coming to a long-term deal that is a lot of money, even if not very top top dollar.

I think hightower won't be crying over the franchise tag considering he will be making 15 million.

 

[BobDigital]

I would pay hightower 12M a year without a second thought in this market. It can even average 13M if structured to take it on the end of the contract over 5 years.

 

[Ring 6]

I am not saying he shouldn't get paid but at what price? Bill probably has a limit. This team has plenty of cap space but they wanna make other moves as well. High's very important and should be priority number 1 but bill obviously has a price range.

That's the way it is.
All the other crap you wrote was what I was referring to.

 

[Ring 6]

I think hightower won't be crying over the franchise tag considering he will be making 15 million.

I think a guy like Hightower is one who should be most concern with the cap.

He plays a position that is very susceptible to injury. He plays violently and full tilt. He has had joint issues ( knee and shoulder) that seem potentially chronic.

15 mill and career threatening injury is not a good deal.
I suspect if he gets the tag we will end up renegotiating if into a long term deal.

 

[Huckleberry1]

15 million dollar tag. Expensive tag. This team has to sign other free agents

He's their best defensive player and they lose both of their last two Super Bowl wins without him. He deserves to be paid as a top LB and like McCourty they will get a deal done even if it means tagging him. After Amendola has his salary reduced and they release Vollmer they will have around 70 million in cap space in a sh.tty year for free agents, so their best play is to pay both Hightower and Butler now and Re-sign Branch and try to keep Harmon or Ryan.

 

[Huckleberry1]

I would pay hightower 12M a year without a second thought in this market. It can even average 13M if structured to take it on the end of the contract over 5 years.

Agree completely.

 

[PatriotsPimp136]

He's their best defensive player and they lose both of their last two Super Bowl wins without him. He deserves to be paid as a top LB and like McCourty they will get a deal done even if it means tagging him. After Amendola has his salary reduced and they release Vollmer they will have around 70 million in cap space in a sh.tty year for free agents, so their best play is to pay both Hightower and Butler now and Re-sign Branch and try to keep Harmon or Ryan.

I hope you're right. There's some nice free agents. I wouldn't say it's lousy. I am still hoping they get floyd back here. I don't expect bennett back even though i would love him back at the right price.

 

[Kontradiction]

Hightower isn't going anywhere so there's really no need to worry about this.

 

[FCB02062]

Monty Beisel

 

[BobDigital]

Agree completely.

Also let me add 13M per year would make Hightower the highest paid ILB in the NFL right now. I don't have an issue with that cause in a few years that won't be the case anyway.

 

[MUFC7]

Hightower should be kept at any sane price possible IMO. The difference between a championship Team and a good Team is little and he proved in both Super Bowls that he can be that difference with game changing plays. Without his stop at the 1 yard line and his strip sack, the Patriots lose both these games. MLB isn't the ideal position to pay big $$ but he proved that he is worth being paid like the elite player he is.