(02-02-2024, 03:02 PM)Khan Artist Wrote:

(02-02-2024, 01:44 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: You have something that states he has pissed off Josh Allen? 

Share it.

That's another garbage narrative that folks have latched on to. 

Some media guy quoted Baalke out of context and got a tweet in response supposedly from someone connected to Allen who understandably took the out of context tweet out of context. 

The man said 7 times Josh Allen will be a Jaguar and he's raved about his play. That's just ridiculous. 
There's five weeks before the tag deadline and the most likely outcome is a tag and a negotiation of a big contract just like we saw last year with Engram. 

If you think they are "off to a bad start" you are buying into some bull [BLEEP]

And - no - I'm not lumping a completely different situation in SF into my judgment of Baalke since he's been here. 
I have plenty to go on that is actually relevant to what is happening. We don't know the actual dynamics of owner/GM/HC all those years ago in SF. We just have 5 different versions of outsider speculation. And it involved a loose cannon in Harbaugh. 

We have a little bit more info to work with here and I'll run with that.

It's not speculation.  He said himself he hasn't even talked to Allen's camp.  How are you going to patently say that Allen will be a Jaguar without even discussing with the man?  It comes across as disrespectful.  

His lack of conversation with Allen will result in us not keeping Ridley.  And then we'll need to spend an early pick on WR instead of OL/DL.  That's the issue.

If you really want to keep denying that it's a problem, that's your prerogative.

Huh? The presser when he said that was like 3 weeks after our last game? 

Is there some "start negotiations immediately" starting gun that I missed? 

Why are we assuming there is some delayed timeline to any of this? 

The odds of working a deal with Allen before the tag deadline to preserve the tag for Ridley were always low. 
Baalke may have already gleaned enough information from Allen's camp during the season to know they were always going to let the market play out before signing. Rendering the tag useless on any other player. 

Do you have some information proving it is completely out of the ordinary for a team to wait on commencing negotiations with pending free agents until their staff have completed their own roster assessments? 

Baalke also said their 2023 assessments were wrapping up and they needed to sit down with FO and coaching staff and make some tough decisions. Is it not sensible he would begin negotiating a 100 million dollar contract AFTER that happens? 

You know they also were trying to hire the actual damn people who are going to coach Josh Allen next year, right? 

What was the exact accepted timeline for them to do all of their exit interviews, have a staff roster eval, a FO roster eval, and then a joint roster eval, while also doing a coaching search for an entire defensive staff? Was it exactly 18 days?  19 days? 20? 

You're reaching to insist there is fault in the timeline of negotiation because social media has been acting like it is some grave error for the past week. 
I don't know that it is. Just some [BLEEP] for people to get fake mad about.

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