Rapoport: Hightower expected to sign deal with NE, NYJ, or PITT TODAY

[farn]

12M$ yearly is some serious cash. I can't imagine being able to work for that amount.

I'd love for HT to return & I think we'd miss his play next season. But, one can understand 12M$ per being very enticing.

Getting close to decision time, I'd say.

 

[Soliel]

This is pure misery. I hope bb matches the offer. Ive hit refresh so many times im getting stupid about it.

 

[Pats1989]

I have to think that we're offering at least 10.5 million, maybe even 11 mill.

So the question becomes- will HT really leave New England for a weak team like the Jets for that difference?

Well losing Long, HT, Butler hurts. Other than Gilmore at CB, who is our playmaker? D will be in trouble next year.

 

[Froob]

Hearing Rachel Maddow has the goods on Hightowers' new contract tonight on MSNBC







From 2012.

 

[Pessimistic Pete]

Really hope we get him back.

That being said, if I had to choose (not that it's a choice nor does one impact the other) I'd rather have Butler.

 

[resdubwhite]

the cash is there. Just need to see if they have the love. that's a big outlay for the jets.

Better hope the muffins are deductible.

 

[Ivan]

I have to think that we're offering at least 10.5 million, maybe even 11 mill.

So the question becomes- will HT really leave New England for a weak team like the Jets for that difference?

If he's looking at an 8 million difference who could blame him?

 

[sambam94]

mot feeling good about this...

 

[NashuaPats]

I really hope the Pats up their offer to be competitive with the Jets. They have plenty of cap space left and it would be tough to lose this guy.

 

[farn]

Well losing Long, HT, Butler hurts. Other than Gilmore at CB, who is our playmaker? D will be in trouble next year.

Easy, friend. This is the same refrain used by some on here during 2014-15-16 seasons. Two championships & one near miss in 2015 later........

 

[JMC00]

Well losing Long, HT, Butler hurts. Other than Gilmore at CB, who is our playmaker? D will be in trouble next year.

Heard the same thing about Chandler Jones and Jamie Collins. People need to stop being such ****ies.

 

[A Defiant Goose]

Was expecting more

More than more than 12 mil?

 

[Le Numéro Douze]

If the Jets truly offered more than 12M, they deserve to be stuck with that contract. Go ahead, spend like crazy and then misuse the player (you know they will).

 

[Palm Beach Pats Fan]

there's no guarantee the Jets are going to continue to be awful.

careful, you are challenging my world view here.

Sun: rises in the East
Water: wet
Colts & Ravens: whine
Jets: suck

 

[CheekyDave]

If the Jets are really at 12.5 and the Pats at 10...I wonder if anyone has a sense what the GUARANTEED money amounts are?

Maybe the Pats could beat the guarantee money part and then have a lower back end, so his ego feels better

Cannot blame the man at all if he takes an extra 8 MILLION as someone above said, the Jets suck, but it is NY, which the wifes like, for shopping and all that * ducks*

 

[Bourne Again Christian]

Doesnt help fill our hole though other then Zack Brown what quality potential trade or otherwise is out there?

 

[Bruins29]

People need to stop being such ****ies.

This exactly. The continued worrying from the same batch of posters is pathetic. Like BB is not going to field the best team he can regardless of what a bunch of morons on a website think is best.

 

[Pats1989]

How would losing HT & Butler affect our chances at the east?

 

[Bourne Again Christian]

Gilmore should wash out or dare I say improve Butlers spot.
High is a big hole

 

[Froob]

We will have quite a few contract year guys with Burkhead, Kony 2017, and if we bring Butler back. Those contract year guys are usually monsters (unless your Jamie Collins...). Team will be loaded with Hightower back.