(04-05-2024, 03:01 PM)Cleatwood Wrote:

(04-05-2024, 02:33 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: He's tagged. There is literally zero reason to rush a negotiation at this point. 

They did this with Engram last year and he signed in JULY! 
And lo and behold - all parties came away happy and the athlete had a career season to follow it up. 

What's the rush? Just some excuse to bash Baalke?

I don't need excuses to bash Baalke. He literally does it by himself by drafting poorly.

By signing him to an extension, they can lower his cap hit in 2024 which could allow them to make other moves. Engrams deal was never going to be that big which is why it wasn't a big deal to wait. There are still some solid pass rushers out there "Bud Dupree" and other moves I would make but they need to have a lower cap to do them.

We have two years of drafts from the Baalke/Pederson braintrust. 

So far, that has produced:

HITS:
Walker 
Lloyd
Anton Harrison 



CONTRIBUTORS:
Muma
Montaric Brown
P Washington
Antonio Johnson (may be a starter soon) 


MISSES:
Snoop Connor
Fortner


UNKNOWNS: 
Bigsby
Strange
Greg Junior
Hodges
Hallet
Abdullah
Lacy
Miller
Braswell

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If some of those guys in the unknown category come on this year to look like they weren't bad picks, I just don't know if all the "Baalke draft hate" is justified.  (and I despise the Miller pick with every fiber of my soul, and I also disliked the Bigsby selection strongly) 

I definitely don't like the positional value decisions I've seen from Baalke/Pederson at times and I'd have done some things differently. But what we have to judge them on is still very much a work in progress. 

I just feel like it's still premature to be tripping about this regime's draft success and failure - but everyone in Jags nation seems to be supremely confident that they are going to totally screw the pooch in a few weeks. 
I'm just not sure I share that assumption. Trying to be objective despite some displeasure with the roster build.

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