(10-17-2019, 01:21 PM)TrivialPursuit Wrote:

(10-17-2019, 01:19 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: So you're just assuming the terms of the contract offered were fair and reasonable?

Fair and reasonable is all in the eye of the beholder.

Obviously Yan thought he was worth more than they were offering and the Jags didn't want to budge because technically they didn't have to.

So we just gotta wait for the offseason. Maybe Yan was so insulted he decided he was just going to finish his rookie deal and go to free agency.

So now we've gone from acting like a professional, to acting like a professional and not being overpaid, to acting like a professional, not being overpaid, and only when they have to?

Troubling on any number of levels.  If he exemplifies the degree of professionalism we want in our players, why not reward him for it?  If the team wants to establish a team first mindset among the players, why not reward those who exemplify that and encourage it?

Bortles certainly didn't have to be given his extension.  The Jaguars could have simply exercised the 5th year option and waited another year to see if he was worth re-signing to a new deal.  But this same organization gave him the money.

Ngakoue has certainly been more productive, consistent, and professional a player than Bortles has.

Where is Ngakoue's deal?

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