(04-12-2024, 08:03 AM)Mikey Wrote:

(04-11-2024, 02:02 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: And I'm not saying that was the opening offer, I'm saying the process simply could've gotten there sooner, but you don't know if you don't even pick up the phone to the guy to get started. Instead Trent likes to toss out the Tag, which to me seems like an unnecessary flex to slap on players you really want to keep.

Is it? I could understand this if the end result is a guy playing on a high dollar one-year deal, but each time we've done it, it basically bought us time for the big deal to get done while we focused on the little deals while urgency was needed for those.

Every guy he's tagged signed the tender and every guy has since gotten a better multi-year deal before the bill came due. Seems to me like everyone in the building understands that's the plan. I could be naive or too forgiving, it's one of my faults. I just don't feel that he's some jerk when it comes to signing his guys.

I do think so. Evan wanted to sign last year and wasn't shy about it. Had they not had him on the Tag at the draft it's possible they don't take Brenton Strange. That's purely speculative, but when your #1 option is uncertain for a contract reason it has to impact your acquisition strategy. Watching Baalke work it just seems like he's overly adversarial in his approach and that has ramifications for things like losing Ridley instead of being able to tag him. Did they want to? Maybe not, but the way they played it out make it an impossibility and I hate losing options.

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