(03-06-2018, 01:17 PM)Bullseye Wrote:

(03-06-2018, 01:11 PM)Etdavis2006 Wrote: Yes but Julio was still under contract. You are talking about cutting a guy. We are discussing paying a player based on his resume and injuries at the conclusion of his contract. 

You are correct we don’t know what the team offered him but they have shown they will pay you if you perform. I would go on a limb and say the team gave him a solid offer. He thinks he’s worth more. That’s fine. I want him to get all the money he can get. I just don’t want us overpaying for him. He’s gonna get big bucks in free agency and I say let him get it.

I think there is a somewhat viable and likely cheaper alternative on the FA market in Sammy Watkins.

Watkins is at the same point in his career/same age roughly as Robinson.

Watkins is familiar with Marrone and Hackett's offense having played in it in Buffalo.

I recall Marrone recently commenting on his criticism of how Buffalo wound up drafting Watkins, indicating he liked him as a player, just not at the price Buffalo wound up paying for him.

Watkins is faster and more explosive than Robinson, especially since Robinson is coming off an ACL injury.

The only problem with Watkins is an inability to stay healthy. 

But considering he is an experienced WR who now knows how to beat NFL coverages and who knows Marrone's offense, it would make a ton of sense for this team to sign him should Robinson walk.

I've been wondering if that's their plan as we could have told A-Rob way before that we weren't franchising him, but we waited to tell him until after Watkins was informed he wouldn't be tagged as well. Counterpoint is that we had to tell him today, anyways. That said, Watkins is the only other wide out on the market with true game changing potential, so it would make sense for us to swap A-Rob for Watkins if we do in fact covet him.

Otherwise I don't really get trading up to draft A-Rob and developing him only to let him go then do the same thing with another wide-out in this year's class. The whole point of draft and develop is to actually retain those players and it's not like wide receiver is a position of strength or are short on cap space either.

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