(01-25-2018, 10:03 PM)SeldomRite Wrote: Maybe he would, but the team could at least try to  sign him to a deal that provides him with enough up front money and enough dummy years to make his cap number palatable in the near term if he'll go for it. Something like five years 75 million with 20 million up front signing bonus and ten million in salary over the first two years and most of the salary back loaded. Maybe 10-15-20 million per year over the last three.

Then if the team decides to move another direction in a couple of years they have only a small cap hit for the dead money.

We can try but you're basically wanting him to sign another rookie contract. Look at all of the QBs who are off their rookie contract all of them are making more than 15 mil. The only ones that aren't are the ancient one year contract types like McCown, Hoyer, and Cutler.

Glennon 15, Tyrod 15.2, Dalton 16, Smith 17, Bradford 18, Tannehill 19.2. And a lot of those were signed years ago and with cap inflation would be significantly more than that now. Thinking we could get Bortles to sign for significantly, or any, less than the 5th year option level long term is just a pipe dream.

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(01-25-2018, 09:54 PM)Last42min Wrote: You could easily let Bortles walk. No team will sign him except as a back up. I think he's better than people give him credit, but which team would make him a starter? More importantly, which team would pay him elite qb money? After he tests the market, I'd sign him to an incentive laden contract and try to bring in some competition via FA or the draft.

He wouldn't get the elite ~25+ mil like Stafford, Luck, Carr, etc just got but as I said above he would get as much or more than the Glennon/Tyrod/Bradford types.

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