(03-01-2022, 05:00 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: Meh -  You guys are discounting the way players and agents view Pederson IMO. 

Agents can be sold on working with a Pederson staff and a rising star at QB - and those agents can sell their players on it. 

The majority of free agents still follow money. Exceptions exist and will not be in play for us, but the rest are still able to be lured and landed.

Money is #1, no one disputes that. But, if you're going to make money the only thing then the money has to be a considerable amount more than the next highest bidder. The Calais FA mini doc showed that very accurately I believe.

The problem is this year it's not going to be us vs just one or two other teams. Every team has huge amounts of cap space (except for the Saints/Pack) so it will be us vs probably a dozen other suitors for each good FA.

Is it even going to be possible for us to outbid the field by like 20% so that whoever we target eschews the many valid reasons to not want to be in Jax? For the FA in the 100-200 range like Jenkins/RRH/Agnew, yeah maybe we can overpay that tier again like we did. For the top guys like Scherff or Chandler Jones? I don't think so.

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