OT: Tag Madness begins, Phins franchise Landry

[Aßßynormal]

It's less guaranteed money than what the market is bearing. If Landry gets concussions or blows out an ACL late in the year, his value plummets, and his, say, 30 million guaranteed, is MORE than 16 mil.

I fully realize this is hard language for us to understand. I would take my 16 mil, and then run to a contender the next year, hope to win a SB, and then retire with my head intact.

No. Landry can get an insurance policy to cover injury. That sets him up for a second payday next year.

 

[Chris Stevenson]

No. Landry can get an insurance policy to cover injury. That sets him up for a second payday next year.

That doesn't change the idea that he's technically earning less based on what his true market value is. That's the point. The owners love the tag option to rent a player (at a high price), but the players hate it.

Nothing more, nothing less, regardless of insurance policies.

There has to be a trade in the works, unless Miami is this stupid.

 

[chasa]

if the NFLPA was smart they'd set aside 6.2 mil each year specifically for players who get franchised, take out injury insurance for them with the understanding that if they do in fact get injured the player will pay back the money.

 

[Deus Irae]

Lol 16 million...Can somebody tell me why players hate the tag so much?

I get that it limits where they go, but they often get paid way higher than they ever would when they’re on it!

The tag is very good for average to above average players who have a great year prior to the FA. It's terrible for great players.

 

[Joey007]

The tag is very good for average to above average players who have a great year prior to the FA. It's terrible for great players.

So this is great for Landry.

 

[Deus Irae]

So this is great for Landry.

As long as he's ok with the injury risk, it's tremendous for him.

 

[Soliel]

I watch stuff like this all the time and wonder. Wtf are people thinking to pay this price?

Now Landry makes more than our whole receiving corps combined? What do Edelman, cooks, Amendola etc make? I know it can’t be that much

 

[RobertWeathers]

If they are not at seeing some progress on a long term deal this is galactically stupid.

Not sure if his sucky ypc is him or Lucky Strike Cutler

 

[primetime]

Talking serious injuries. Most injuries that dont fall into the category of career threatening rarely matter overall in terms of contracts. Either way there are enough ways to minimize financial risk to make one year deals / tags work.

That's not true. If Edelman's contract was up this year, he'd be looking at a significantly reduced contract even though his injury wasn't career-threatening. Hell, Edelman's series of injuries in 2012 screwed him in 2013 free agency, where the Patriots let him dangle for a month and ultimately re-signed him on the cheap. None of those injuries are likely to have allowed him to collect on an insurance policy unless it was a very, very expensive policy.

 

[primetime]

If they are not at seeing some progress on a long term deal this is galactically stupid.

Not sure if his sucky ypc is him or Lucky Strike Cutler

It's the routes he runs. His air yards per catch were on par with his career average this year; his yards after the catch went down. Comparing him to someone like Edelman or Amendola isn't really fair, as both of them are far more proficient in the intermediate and deep areas along with being able to create after the catch.

The routes Landry runs are most comparable to those run by James White in the Patriots' offense when White splits out wide (that is, subtracting White's wheel routes). White gets about 6.4 yards after the catch. Landry generally gets around that but only managed 4.6 this year, which explains the difference between his years of 10-12 yards per catch going down to 8.8 this year.

The Dolphins just ponied up absurd money to a less versatile James White. (To their one credit, I'd pay that money to Jarvis Landry before I'd pay $13m or whatever to Randall Cobb).

 

[1960Pats]

We should be celebrating this sort of nonsense from division opponents.

Sounds good to me...

 

[maust]

Landry smartened up. In the space of one day he's gone from:
Jarvis Landry: “Franchise tag is not a good deal for me”
to:
Jarvis Landry will sign franchise tender