(06-10-2022, 04:33 PM)scottyg Wrote:

(06-10-2022, 12:54 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: I hope not as well. 

I expect he'll be productive with Trevor and Pederson. I'm more confident he'll earn his keep than flame out. 
Of course we'll never hear the end of the moaning over his contract either way. 

Having watched all of Kirk's targets from last year, I think deep passes to Kirk running seam routes from the slot will go a long way to boosting his stats and moving chains for the team. It stood out in his tape.  (reports from OTAs are that Trevor is already drilling that route with Kirk and the TEs , and looking great doing it) Alternately, Kirk and Zay Jones are both really good at finding the soft spots in zone coverage and getting the easy dink and dunk yardage that way as well.


Jags Fans:  We literally have NOBODY at receiver!! We have tons of cap space !!! SIGN SOMEONE!!!!!

*Jaguars sign good receiver*

Jags Fans:  We paid HOW MUCH?!?!?!?!?

Did we gripe a lot about how much we paid for Kirk?  Maybe I just didn't pay much attention because complaining about over-spending in unrestricted free-agency is just complaining for the sake of complaining.
It felt like a lot of whining came from national sources because we broke the market for free agent wideouts.  I kind of enjoyed that

Personally, my biggest problem with what we paid Kirk was the fact that it looked like we could have had Chark for about $12mil for 1 year.  I would have liked the Kirk signing better if we had Chark too.
Hopefully Kirk finds a rhythm with Trevor and has a career year.  We're due for something like that.  I'll be sweating my nards off in the stands either way, but I suuurrre hope I get to enjoy some Sundays this year.

I don't disagree with any of this, but have two points:

I don't think we broke the market at all. I think that is a crap narrative coming from one front office guy supposedly complaining to a writer who desperately needed something to write about. 

If a front office is incapable of negotiating a fair deal with a top tier receiver - and they blame it on a guy we gave only 50% guaranteed money to with a two year out,  they just suck at negotiating. Tyreek Hill didn't get paid his number because of Christian freaking Kirk. Not buying that.

Did we push up the second tier receiver threshold a bit by paying him around 18 or 19 per year for 2 years? 
Sure. A little. But only for those doing similarly structured deals. 
I just don't think it's fair or accurate to say that a guy on an incentive laden 2 year deal with the POSSIBILITY for it to become a 4 year payday is a worthy measuring stick. Seems like weak sauce. 
If there's a receiver on the market rated exactly like Kirk and a team gave him a 4 year deal with no out clause, with more guaranteed $ percentage and fewer incentives required, they absolutely would NOT have to match Kirks per year number on his 1st 2 years.

Chark wanted out. (IMO) The Meyer Error ruined him on Jacksonville. He was ready for a change. 
I don''t know what this regime offered him, but I can't imagine they wouldn't match that sum the Lions mustered. 
I'm very disappointed we didn't find a way to keep him around.

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