NFL News OT: Sources: Seahawks' Jaxon Smith-Njigba agrees to record extension

[Steve102]

It won't even look that big a contract within a year or two the cap is always going up the longer you wait the more expensive it gets, todays price isn't tomorrows price there's gonna be another highest paid guy soon then a second highest paid guy and before you know it he's barely in the top 5.

Pats are just costing themselves more the longer they wait on Gonzalez, that deal should have been done yesterday.

Ever think that Gonzo knows all this too?

 

[ScottishPatriots]

Ever think that Gonzo knows all this too?

It's an easy contract to do if you aren't cheaping out the market is basically set, Stingley got 30m a year, Sauce 30.1m, McDuffie 31m, Gonzalez is gonna be about 31.5m a year with a similar guarantee or a million or two more than McDuffie.

Trying to give him a penny less than McDuffie isn't going to happen, if you aren't going to pay him it you'd be as well trading him now cause the contract isn't going to ever happen.

I don't see what the big negotiation is the next elite guy gets a tiny notch more than the last one, it's been done over the last 3 big deals.

 

[Crazy Patriot Guy]

It's an easy contract to do if you aren't cheaping out the market is basically set, Stingley got 30m a year, Sauce 30.1m, McDuffie 31m, Gonzalez is gonna be about 31.5m a year with a similar guarantee or a million or two more than McDuffie.

Trying to give him a penny less than McDuffie isn't going to happen, if you aren't going to pay him it you'd be as well trading him now cause the contract isn't going to ever happen.

I don't see what the big negotiation is the next elite guy gets a tiny notch more than the last one, it's been done over the last 3 big deals.

See my previous post about the CB market going from $25 million to $30 million a week later. It's easy to say pay him a little more, but for all we know he and his agent are looking to make a massive reset to the market.

 

[Steve102]

It's an easy contract to do if you aren't cheaping out the market is basically set, Stingley got 30m a year, Sauce 30.1m, McDuffie 31m, Gonzalez is gonna be about 31.5m a year with a similar guarantee or a million or two more than McDuffie.

Trying to give him a penny less than McDuffie isn't going to happen, if you aren't going to pay him it you'd be as well trading him now cause the contract isn't going to ever happen.

I don't see what the big negotiation is the next elite guy gets a tiny notch more than the last one, it's been done over the last 3 big deals.

I guess I am looking at it this way; Does Gonzo think he waits until the number is $35m? Is that why a deal isn't done yet? Is he betting on the continued inflation at the position, while also betting on himself to get even better? Does he leave 4-5m on the table by taking the security now as opposed to waiting?

 

[KCSVEN]

You could easily take the 5th year option then franchise him twice and it will cost you less than signing a new contract.
Obviously less cap flexibility tho 2027 would possibly be fine under this scenario.
Gonzo has had some missed games to injury.
So Gonzalez doesn’t hold all the cards, there’s reasons on both sides to get a deal done and I fully expect they will.
He will be 24 for this season, statistically elite corners peak at 25-26 and decline 27-29, though manageable decline. Age 30 decline accelerates.

The guy is here through his peak one way or another and hopefully they can manage a salary cap friendly deal to take him through age 28-29

 

[Give Kraft A Hand]

The Cincinnati Bengals will agree with you.

Multiple problems with the Bengals. They chose to keep both Higgins and Chase when it wasn’t necessary to do so. Burrow has also been dinged up the last few years mostly due to substandard line play.

If they were smart they would have traded Hendrickson and Higgins for picks and built around Chase and Burrow. Having a true WR1 is great, but given the cap having two of them is not necessarily needed especially when your OLine and DLine aren’t great.

As far as the Cowboys…that whole roster is subpar from the QB to the 53rd man.

 

[Thelonious]

I enjoy following the NFL, or I wouldn't be here, but there is no term for this ******** other than Decadence. Being an NFL fan gets to be a more guilty pleasure every day.

 

[mike_usagisan]

Any wonder so many teams run into cap problems when every new contract has to one up the previous?

I really wish the NFL would find a way to reign this in?

They have. They keep raising the cap.

 

[FortressX]

Inside the Jaxon Smith-Njigba deal

We've got the full details of the contract that pushes the new-money APY bar to $42.15 million.

www.nbcsports.com

 

[Crazy Patriot Guy]

They have. They keep raising the cap.

But the cap isn't rising at the same pace as the big contracts. It went up a little less than 8% from last season. In that same time, the highest paid CB is up roughly 25%.

Drew Bledsoe took up about 10% of the cap when he became the highest paid player ever. Now the top QBs will be around 20%.

So yeah, the high end contracts are definitely outpacing the cap increases by a wide margin.

 

[Hugepatsfan]

But the cap isn't rising at the same pace as the big contracts. It went up a little less than 8% from last season. In that same time, the highest paid CB is up roughly 25%.

Drew Bledsoe took up about 10% of the cap when he became the highest paid player ever. Now the top QBs will be around 20%.

So yeah, the high end contracts are definitely outpacing the cap increases by a wide margin.

CB is only one position though. C is another one that took a huge jump with the deal Vegas gave Linderbaum. But has the DT market gone up in the last year? Has the EDGE market been reset? LB? OT? TE? RB? QB?

Every position doesn't move up annually in perfect harmony with the cap. There are ebbs and flows usually. A position may go a couple years with no record setting contract then BAM a few of them in a row. But all while other positions move slower.

 

[Wozzy]

Another reason the draft is the best place to find superweapons.

They're cheap, and locked into a rookie contract.

 

[Hugepatsfan]

I enjoy following the NFL, or I wouldn't be here, but there is term for this ******** other than Decadence. Being an NFL fan gets to be a more guilty pleasure every day.

Where should the NFL revenue go if not to the players? Would you rather see it go to the owners?

 

[Thelonious]

Where should the NFL revenue go if not to the players? Would you rather see it go to the owners?

The owners should indeed keep as much of the proceeds of THEIR enterprise as they can, but that was not, dimbulb, my point. My point, as those blessed with normal intelligence would immediately have seen, is that if levels of compensation reflect our priorities as a nation, then we are indeed a sick and declining culture.

 

[Huckleberry1]

That's a stupid deal.

 

[lancerman]

But the cap isn't rising at the same pace as the big contracts. It went up a little less than 8% from last season. In that same time, the highest paid CB is up roughly 25%.

Drew Bledsoe took up about 10% of the cap when he became the highest paid player ever. Now the top QBs will be around 20%.

So yeah, the high end contracts are definitely outpacing the cap increases by a wide margin.

Bledsoe became the highest paid player ever at a time when he wasn't even a top 5 QB.

That said, the cap is going up every year. 3 years and we are almost at 25% of the cap increasing. Players and agents know this and are going to use this as leverage

 

[Huckleberry1]

They have. They keep raising the cap.

The owners actually want a QB salary cap, because despite being billionaire businessmen they can't help but overspend when faced with tough negotiations.

 

[FortressX]

Rams, Puka Nacua are on the clock for a new deal

The player most immediately impacted by the new Jaxon Smith-Njigba contract is Cowboys receiver George Pickens, who has seen the bar for his next deal move to at least $42.15 million per year — even though he's boxed in by the $27.298 million franchise tag.

www.nbcsports.com

 

[TommyD4207]

That's a stupid deal.

Eh, they've got Darnold locked in at a reasonable number. It's not that stupid.

Now, it does hamstring them in terms of bringing another quarterback in, but that's a problem for future Seahawks.

 

[TinhWoodhead]

wow a couple good seasons and he got paid!