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I like Jackson a lot, but not for $70M "fully guaranteed"..
So all that said, yeah if there is a story on here tomorrow about paying him $20M APY, 70% of it fully guaranteed,, 5 year deal, sure my eyes will bug out and I'll think we overpaid. But I'll wrap my head around it and move forward. And I won't even be mad, I'll just try to figure out why. (especially when he's covering Diggs)
If he's so valuable, why not re-sign him then? He's the top ranked CB in FAcy.
I don't think that Belichick will do what he did with Thuney. I think that he has an opportunity to sign a couple of players long-term with the $17M, with backloaded contracts in years when there is much more cap space.
He wants to go to the open market. However, Jackson stating the Pats don’t want him was dumb. Things were quiet with Thuney only to find out Bill was trying to sign him at the last minute before he signed with KC.
The team would be arguably worse doing this. Not only is he not a guarantee to be any good, but Bill’s drafting of DB’s is not good. Again you’ve wasted high draft capital when other needs like the front 7 haven’t been addressed in 5 years (aside from Judon and Barmore). For the last 5 years we’ve talked about how soft they are stopping the run and can’t pass rush.
It is when the rest of the DB’s are weak and will be forced to use high draft capital to replace him.
A $20M bonus out of $75M + another $25M in guarantees following same pattern from last season:
ROFLMAO. No. Stats aren't for losers when it comes to contract negotiations. But I'm not surprised that you wouldn't understand that.
McCourty is almost certainly good enough to be part of a 3-man safety group. Not re-signing him is NOT better. We would then need to move Mills or Jones to free safety. of course, you may believe that we could get a better player than McCourty for the money we would pay him.
Reiss is giving his opinion without the benefit of any inside information. That much is clear from the article. Otherwise, he's have said "sources". When Reiss has relied on his opinion in past years, he's almost always been wrong.
In an ideal world, we would have JC at one corner and either draft a cb in round 1 or bring in a corner via free agency and have Mills as sort of a "Jack of all trades".
He's also done really well with db's as undrafted free agents.
what might be more telling is that after a good year in 2020 not a single team made a pitch to grab him for that 2nd round pick. Not one! Now JC had a very similar year in 2021, what will be the market for him? The stats say he's a top 5 CB, yet the "league view" of him is something less than an elite CB. I'd like someone to break down WHY there is this disparity.
Where do you get that the "league view" of Jackson is "something less than elite"? You're making an assumption as to what the league view is with nothing really to account for it other than no one trying to give him an offer when he was RFA Tagged as a 2nd round pick.
You're going to have to guarantee between 60-70 Million for Jackson on a deal because that's the going rate now for CBs. Thinking they'll be able to get Jackson to accept less is a fairy tale.
I mean, that's a whole lot and a whole lot fully guaranteed. I doubt it's quite THAT. But you get the idea. We might be the ones faced with two choices: Unprecedented market-setting money... or he walks. He's got an argument to be among the elite at the position, he's at the outset of a well-funded cap year, and so on.
If by "they" you mean the patriots, there is no need to worry. The patriots would have no interest. The first step is the franchise decision. I expcect that he won't be franchised. If his agent were to give the patriots a courtesy call saying that he was offered $60M-$70M, the response would be clear. Congratulations!
