Quote:Please explain to us, in detail, why a team with our cap situation, is worse off for picking up this option that is not guaranteed and still allows us to cut Blake if he sucks again.

 

 

Quote:Still waiting for my question to be answered

 

I know you were talking to Bklyn, but I've already answered your question earlier in the thread below.  

 

Quote:They would have done it by now if they were going to and it's not "much cheaper" than the franchise tag. If the $19 mil figure in the OP is accurate, it would be about $3 mil cheaper than the franchise tag which would be about $22 mil. By not exercising it and reserving the use of the franchise tag if need be instead, you can just treat the $3 mil difference as a premium for not having to worry about him getting injured and owing a QB you have no interest in $19 million the following year. And rest assured if Blake has a season ending injury this year, he's pretty much done here just the same as if he doesn't fix his decision making and clean up his release. That's $3 million well spent if they feel compelled to franchise him versus a potential waste of $19 mil with the option.


The only drawback is the number of quality players we have hitting free agency next year and trying to keep them all here. The whole idea of considering the 5th year option as a means to keep Blake here 3 more years with successive franchise tags is getting way ahead of ourselves though. You'd worry about something like that with a QB coming off a good year, not the year Blake had.

 

It is guaranteed for injury and many on here are way too flippant about the possibility of significant injury happening.  With the wait and franchise him if need be approach, you've taken that risk of losing $19 mil or whatever it is completely off the table.  It would be so #BecauseJaguars for Blake to tear his ACL or suffer some other equally catastrophic injury in pre-season or early on in the season before we've had a real good look at him after this supposed great off season he's having.

 

We're going to be in a very favorable cap situation next year as well, we should be very competitive in re-signing our guys that are hitting free agency if we still want to based on their respective performances this year.  If we had to use the franchise on an 5th year option-less Blake, it's probably one of the better team financial situations to be in league wide as far as still being able to re-sign the guys we want to keep that are hitting free agency next year.  That's assuming they don't just want out of Jacksonville.  And if they do want out, do we really care if they leave in free agency when we're going to get a compensatory pick anyway?  If you don't want to be here and you're in the middle of your contract, maybe we'll trade you, but tough [BLEEP] otherwise.  If you don't want to be here and you're a free agent...  Bye Felicia.

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