Quote:Don't know where you're getting the "4th" from. 

 

If the Jags let Monroe walk, he would have likely got one of the biggest offseason contracts in free agency. Compensatory pick judgment is determined largely by the amount of money the free agent signs for. 

 

Had the Jags only signed cheap/ short term free agents themselves, they could have garnered as much as 2 third round compensatory picks for Monroe. 

 

The more expensive free agent that Jax signed in the offseason, would have netted the compensation less, however. 

 

Monroe would have likely fetched a contract netting anywhere between 7 and 12 million per year at best next year.  We are mandated by league rules to spend at least 20+ million next year.  We weren't going to get anything.  Even if we continued dumping the rest of our bad contracts, the way they are structured is that even though we eat the dead money, we'd be saving money and would have even more we could have to spend.

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