(04-11-2024, 05:14 PM)flgatorsandjags Wrote:

(04-11-2024, 04:57 PM)Predator Wrote: Why do some people think that if a team offers a team friendly early extension a player will automatically sign it?

Players and agents are also considering the best time to negotiate a deal based on when they think they will have highest possible market value. If they believe they are still getting better and that waiting another season to sign a new deal would be to their financial advantage, why would the sign early.

Of course every team would love to ink a deal right before a player's break out season. That doesn't mean the player and their agent are in any rush to start negotiating a new contract.

Why would Allen want to negotiate a long term extension coming off a 7 sack season?

And it worked because he got Burns money.  If that Burns trade didn't happen Allen would of gotten less. I think he was going initially going to get Watts contract, or just beat it like we did Burns and then Burns got his so we had to cough up that money. If you look at Allen's and Burns contracts they are pretty much the same contract.  Joe Schoen did all the hard work and Baalke just pretty much copied it. I think Burns is a really good player but Allen is a tier above imo.

If they were basing Allen's contract off of what Burns got, then I'm surprised it was so similar because I think most people would consider Allen a tier above Burns, and typically the better player would look at a what the lesser player's contract and negotiate with the expectation of it being x percentage larger.

I think Allen was very reasonable by not demanding his contract be significantly larger than Burns.

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