(04-11-2024, 12:00 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(04-11-2024, 11:35 AM)NewJagsCity Wrote: Agree with this, and i actually dont think we were that interested in Ridley moving forward. Tagging Allen initially instead of Ridley seems to bear this out. We must have seen something in season that we didnt like. I think the signing backfires on the Tacks.

This feels like the rationalization of a scorned woman. It's much more plausible that Baalke followed his own historical behavior pattern and didn't talk to Allen before tagging him thinking that Ridley would hang around and re-sign in free agency.

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(04-11-2024, 10:15 AM)NYC4jags Wrote: Folks still just assuming Allen's agent ever had any intention of signing a deal prior to letting the 2024 edge market play out, I see.

Maybe, maybe not. Seems unwise to assume.

Allen signing prior to the tag deadline was always a pipedream IMO

You honestly think that if the offer he signed was on the table he would've walked away from it?

I honestly think I don't know whether or not his agent wanted to see what the market bore out before doing anything. 
It's a common negotiating tactic. So that may have been the plan - and it may have been known by our FO. 

We can't know unless someone spills the beans. 

It's also pretty common not to begin a negotiation with the highest offer you are comfortable with which is likely near where this ended up for the Jags. 

So - I find the notion that Jags should have begun the talks by offering ~30 mil per year and crossing their fingers that the agent would advise Allen to sign prior to the tag deadline - I find that notion to be a pipe dream. 

I think the likelihood of those stars aligning to be a very low probability. Yet everyone acts as if we have ruined everything because it didn't happen. 

I also think that if we get decent production out of Davis and add a receiver before day 3 - we may be better off than had we paid Ridley what it would have cost to keep him.

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