I really want to believe that they have a deal for Ridley already in place and it'll either have an astronomical amount of guaranteed $$$ or unprecedented signing bonus to squeeze him under the cap. Hopefully they negotiated something both sides are comfortable with and are just waiting until the new league year to try and save the 2nd round pick from conveying.

If Ridley walks and Josh Allen plays on the tag...... Baalke has to go before this time next year. Jags fans have wanted him gone for literal years. It shouldn't take him botching yet another offseason of "easy"/"no-brainer" moves to get him out of here. Unless he's a figurehead and Tony Khan is basically playing madden GM mode with a real franchise, I can't see any reason he's stuck around this long and survived multiple regimes. He was out of football for 4 years until Caldwell & Coughlin brought him in. Then he survived Urban Meyer, and inexplicably got another shot with Doug Pederson after that blew up. From what I understand he was vocal to Shad about not wanting to hire Urban Meyer and saying it was a bad idea; him not wanting his future tied to Urban and having a handshake deal to "get another shot to clean up the mess Urban Meyer made" (this is as per his brothers twitter/burner) is the only thing that makes sense.

I just find it crazy that Shad has figured out everything about how to run a franchise EXCEPT how to hire a capable GM.

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