(04-19-2024, 01:21 PM)Cleatwood Wrote:

(04-19-2024, 12:51 PM)cland Wrote: Post hoc, ergo propter hoc.  It looks like the right move NOW, after he increased his sack total from 2.5, 7.5, and 7.0 to 17.5.  I don't think anyone would have supported giving Allen a ~$25M per year contract, after the 7 sack season.

That's the point lol I was also one of the ones advocating for signing Josh Allen last off season.

Allen got 88 million guaranteed this season after getting 17.5 sacks. Don't you think they could have got him for around 75 million guaranteed last off season? Save yourself some money?

The Eagles just gave Devonta Smith an extension before players like Lamb, JJ and Chase get their extension. Get in early so you don't have to pay a premium.

Trevor will be a Jaguar. There is absolutely no question about it. It's better to give him a deal now than to wait and watch it blow up in their face next summer.

...Smith was a willing participant in that deal, though, right?

Smith's value isn't anywhere CLOSE to Lamb or Jefferson, performance-wise. If it was, do you think he'd want to be the first on the block with the new deal, or wait until the rest of the market was set? The only thing Smith earned by signing this deal so early is he gets his signing bonus now instead of later, and he'll have the chance to hold out for more money sooner if salaries keep balooning as the new TV deals roll in. 

Allen wasn't going to take the lowball offer when the fifth year option was there to let him gamble on his ability to improve his value. If we throw an offer on the table today for Trevor, what's the motivation for him to take it, if it's similarly cheapened? He's got this year AND NEXT to show that he's worthy of a market-setting contract or to say he's done playing behind our line (as some are worrying). If we DO address the line, wouldn't he figure that his numbers should improve, we have a better shot at postseason play, and other deals getting done set his minimum offer that much higher?

Guys aren't just going to sign any deal dropped in front of them. It ain't that easy.

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