Quote:Everyone seems to believe that since we are young team with 2-3 year players that patience is key to establishing the championship caliber team we all desire. In actuality, what it does is bring all your young stars to their 2nd contract at the same time. While we develop guys like Robinson, Hurns, Linder, Cyprien, Smith, et. al. to elite status other teams will be signing them in their prime since we won't be able to sign them all to their market value in 2 more years. At that point, you sign who you can and hope the more recent draft picks play well enough to replace them.

 

Regards................the Chiefjag

This is mostly true in simulations like Madden.. Assuming you have a team full of rookies and they all deserve 2nd contracts, yes you would not be able to sign all of them. That's not the situation in Jax. we have a ton of young players.. some will be signed others will not... then we get a new stock of young players, rinse repeat, this is the process of a complete overhaul. If you think for a few minutes you can see this is why it takes several years to fully rebuild and even longer for a total overhaul.  All of our valuable players right now will be easily signed for their second contract barring injuries of outstanding progress from the bench. 

 

Next year will be the year we actually see the most progress, followed by +.500 seasons for years again barring injuries and extreme circumstances. 

 

Also, system guys are great for a team as it can lower their overall value on the open market if they play a certain scheme that isn't in need of depth in free agency.

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