(02-06-2024, 10:32 AM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(02-06-2024, 08:57 AM)imtheblkranger Wrote: I'm going to optimistically assume Baalke was just waiting for the Pro Bowl distractions to be over before starting negotiations with Josh's camp.

Baalke said in his presser:

• the coaching staff were doing roster evaluations,
  
•  the F.O. staff had just completed roster evaluations
  
• the two sides had yet to sit down together to make some "difficult decisions"
  
• and they were literally in the middle of interviewing and hiring the coaches who would be coaching Josh Allen in 2024
  

Is it really that unreasonable that they would seek to complete these processes before entering negotiation with Allen six weeks prior to the tag deadline?

I think...think mind you, that the FO should've made contact with the player's agent to at least start the talks so Baalke could say that. If he'd even said "Hey we're doing these things and then we wanna sit down with you but we want Josh here long term" then there wouldn't be the angst we see here. Instead we get a response that sounds like more of Baalke's reputation for being difficult with the players AFTER they already blew it last offseason by not already taking care of this. Baalke does the easy things the hardest way possible and it gets old.

Edit: Of course Baalke is dumb enough to have already put it out there like the Tag was coming, guess he went to the flgates dude's school of Emotionally Unintelligent Negotiating.

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