(03-26-2018, 06:01 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(03-26-2018, 01:35 PM)NJ JagsFan Wrote: Maybe this Moncreif signing is a smoke screen for when we make a blockbuster trade for Odell.

haha on a real note, I really don't understand paying this guy 10m who hasn't proven anything and all based on potential. I honestly have a hard time seeing him even beating out Lee, Cole and Dede..

It's not about beating them out. It's about having a different skill-set than them - one that the receiver corps was missing last year w/o Robinson. 

Sure, they are rolling the dice on his production vs his potential, but you have to trust your player evaluation sometimes over statistics. The Jags are betting on their evaluation with this deal as well as the Hayden deal. I hope they don't lose those bets.

It kinda is though... you're paying this guy 10m for a year. That isn't the kind of money you throw out just because of his size and speed its because you're expecting him to be better then one the other 3 (by a significant amount). Not including we pretty much cut Hurns for it who was going to get paid 7m this year and has had better production then Moncrief. If it was just about size we would have stuck with Strong or any other tall fast wideout whose out there or could draft but no. The money shows that this guy is expected to show something that he hasn't in the past which I don't think is smart to bet on especially since you're already paying him the money.

And on top of all that there is no way you could tell me that we had to pay this guy 10m... there is no way he was having that many offers where we had to overpay for this guy? That's also not including that this guy had only a 700 yard season with a top tier QB throwing to him and when he had a below average QB throwing to him he was significantly worse (300 yard seasons and we just paid this guy 10m LOL). Plus its not like this guy hasn't had his fair share of injuries.. so this could easily have been 10m in cap we just rolled over to next year.

Obviously we can argue about this all we want but it won't matter until the season starts and we actually see productivity. This guy just seems to have a lot of if's and not a lot of production to warrant 10m/year contract and in the small chance he does ball out you think we will be able to afford the long term deal next year? probably not is my guess. So the only upside is that he balls out this one year and thats really it... or you know.. he fails out and isn't worth the money.

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