(02-27-2024, 12:51 PM)nhiverson Wrote:

(02-27-2024, 11:03 AM)Jaguarmeister Wrote: Could just be more posturing to get Allen to accept less and to expedite arriving at a deal prior to free agency. 

Baalke to Josh:  "We'll tag you, then sign Hunter and give him your bag.  Then we'll tag you again next year.  Or.. and hear me out.. you take the 5 year $125 million dollar offer with $75 million guaranteed that's currently on the table and you and your great great great grand children are set for life."

With free agency not started yet and with Ridley potentially about to test it, such an "in the public eye" negotiating tactic wouldn't surprise me.

Or they could genuinely be interested in adding Hunter for an endless buffet of pass rushers.  You really can't have too many of them aside from it potentially coming at the expense of not filling a hole elsewhere.

Well the video I posted Wiggs said he has heard Baalke sees Josh as a #2 DE

We'll see I guess..

Which makes no sense because Allen has been listed as an OLB, not a DE, for the past two or three years. There's a difference with those positions and it directly impacts your market value when contract talks come up. 

The tinhorns pulled some sly [BLEEP] like this years ago with Clowney when they tried to short pay him by tagging him as an OLB Vs. DE or vise versa and the difference was about $5M. His snap counts, sack total and overall success rates were found to favor the DE position more so than the OLB position and they said "[BLEEP] it, we'll screw him over anyway".

It's kind of similar to how tricky it was with Deebo Samuel and the 49ers when his contract extension and negotiations came up a year or two ago. Because of his duality and ability to be just as effective as a runner out of the backfield Vs. as a pass catcher. 

Regardless of Baalke's views. Production is production. On a poverty franchise that has lacked consistent, reliable and overall GOOD pass rushers for YEARS, he's a [BLEEP] fool to toy around with this situation, both, publicly and privately.

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