(04-09-2022, 12:32 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(04-09-2022, 11:33 AM)Jag149 Wrote: I agree on the outside looking in we maybe low balled him. Realistically, I am thinking it was more of his agent working to get the player the most he could. What if the Jags waited a bit and seeing other teams below 7 million offered that to keep him. The other teams countered getting him to 10 million. When the bidding got to 10 million the Jags bowed out.  Actually that could very well be the case.

I haven't heard or read anything about what we did or don't offer Chark and I personally doubt we lowballed him looking at the other FA contracts from this offseason coupled with three different comments from Pederson about trying to sign him.

I think it was just coach speak by Pederson that he wanted Chark back.  By free agency standards, Chark signed for a very modest, low risk contract with Detroit.  The way the Jaguars were throwing around money, they could have easily offered a more favorable contract than what he got.  The Jaguars gave $14 million in guaranteed money to Zay Jones.

I also don't see much support for the theory that Chark didn't want to be here.  If it was Urban Meyer, he's no longer the coach.  If he just wanted to play for a winner, why go to Detroit?

I think Pederson/Baalke had low interest in Chark.  That's too bad because I think Chark is under-rated.  His stats are low in part because of injury and also because he mostly had awful quarterbacks throwing to him.  I could easily see him bouncing back to his pro-bowl alternate level or even exceeding it.  It wouldn't surprise me if down the road that Chark is added to the list of former players where Jaguars fans say "Why in the world did we let him go?!?".

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