Quote:Lol Glennon got 18 million, in case you haven't noticed QBs cost a lot.


So let's say they don't do the option he plays out the season and goes 4000 total yards 25 to 30 TDs with like 10 ints.


Now they either let him go or tag him and lose out on tagging someone like Telvin and also lose 5 million in cap space.


With the option the save the above and if he sucks they cut him and lose nothing.

 

You can be in favor of the option and not exaggerate and mislead with your points.  You've conveniently leaving out the possibility of signing Bortles to a team friendly long term deal in that scenario and you're likely over exaggerating the difference in free cap space between the tag and the option.  The 2017 franchise tag for QB's is $21,268,000.  We won't know what the number for 2018 will be until next year because they apparently work the team's salary cap into the calculation.  But I doubt there's going to be an approximately $3 million dollar jump in the tag number to get to your $5 million savings.

 

Let's just be honest here, the decision that was made was controversial for a reason.  It was not an easy decision either way, nor is it cut and dry.  It will have been the right decision in retrospect if the team can avoid significant injury to Blake this season and it will have been a horrendously wrong decision and so #BecauseJaguars if he tears his ACL or suffers some other serious injury that has him rehabbing next off season.  The team would surely be shopping for the future at QB early in next year's draft if that happens and the money tied up in retaining Bortles could have been put to use somewhere else.

 

And lastly on Glennon...  It's essentially a 1 year deal for him as the cap hit to cut him after this season isn't significant.  Teams will pay for an unknown quantity with potential like Glennon, especially when it's a team friendly deal and they can easily cut ties after this year.  Bortles is largely a known quantity at this point.  He's had turnover issues deep in his own territory since he entered the league.  And teams aren't going to be falling all over themselves to pay for that if he doesn't flip the script this year.

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