(10-18-2019, 07:11 AM)Bullseye Wrote: One poster (Perkolater, IIRC) made the assertion that Ramsey would have had the deal he wanted if he acted professionally.

I pose the question, in part, to show it's not necessarily true that Ramsey would have gotten a deal even if he was a complete boy scout.

Ngakoue has been as close to a boy scout as you'd want and he doesn't have a deal.  Then people started offering any number of excuses as to why Ngakoue didn't get the new deal.

The point is the re-signings seem to have NOTHING to do with talent, production, merit or professionalism.

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I understand that you're asking somewhat rhetorically but I think your assumptions are wrong. Ramsey probably would have gotten a new deal this off-season if he hadn't decided he didn't want to play for the Jags anymore regardless of circumstances. Khan said he was willing to make him the highest paid player at his position. Normally that's not something that an owner would say publicly due to negotiations but it did show where he was willing to go for a player of that caliber.

The Jags were and presumably still are willing to extend Ngakoue. We don't know for sure the details of the deal but the reported offer sounds more than fair for a player of his caliber. Ngakoue (or his agent) turned it down. You can't just force a player to sign.

So you have a case of the Jags willing to sign two players (one an all-pro talent who was not a boy scout) and another good player, but not as talented who was a boy scout. The fact that both players decided *not* to sign were choices they made, not the Jags.

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