(06-11-2022, 01:27 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(06-10-2022, 07:33 PM)flgatorsandjags Wrote: The only reason?  No.  

A huge reason?  Absolutely.  When Hill, Adams, Diggs, Kupp, Brown etc. seen what Kirk got their eyes lit up.

Meh

Their eyes can light up all they want. Doesn't mean they have much traction when negotiating against Kirk's deal structure which is incredibly team friendly. Those players did not sign team friendly deals like Kirk. They really don't compare. 

More importantly - if so many are hell-bent on insisting that the Jags/Kirk deal shifted the market - why are they not critical of the Mike Williams deal that happened A WEEK PRIOR to the Kirk signing??

Williams got 40 million guaranteed with 28 million up front at signing. 
Kirk got 37 million guaranteed with 22.5 mil up front. 

I'm just not buying it. Kirk got paid more than receivers with his production tend to get paid. He also was the best thing a desperate team could find in free agency in a year they had tons of cap space. 
This kind of thing happens every free agency with some rebuilding team overpaying for a need while they had cap room. 
It just rarely turns out that two or three talking heads single it out as a "market influencing deal" and get ppl up in arms about it. 

The market is what it is. Teams and agents negotiate. An outlier deal has less influence than folks are letting on. 
If I was in negotiation with a top tier WR agent that wanted 100mil with 65 guaranteed and no out clause and they were citing the Kirk deal as precedent, I'd say "Sure - we'll just put in a two year out clause and make it 50 mil guaranteed if you like Kirk's deal so much."  If GMs are letting agents bully them on price, that is their own failure. Not the Jaguars shifting the market. 
Those teams wanted those receivers and were willing to pay what they paid for them. 

You can't just compare straight up annual base salaries without weighing those numbers against deal structure. 
It's a major factor.

Because Williams was worth his contract.  Hes a 6'4 220 lb. WR, National champion, top 10 pick that can be a number 1 on a lot of teams.  It wasnt just 2 or 3 talking heads that thought Kirk helped set the WR market lol.  None of these big named WRs wanted out until they seen what Kirk got and then they wanted the big bag and the their teams didnt have the money or didnt want to pay a WR 30 mil.  Kirk was signed on potential and what they think he can do pretty much like how the drafted Walker at 1.  Hopefully Kirk can live up to the contract and even make it look like a steal.

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