(02-03-2024, 12:25 PM)Khan Artist Wrote:

(02-02-2024, 04:41 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: 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.

There is no universe in which Trent Baalke has earned the benefit of the doubt that you are stretching to give him.  None.

Perhaps you're correct.  Perhaps I am.  I have a lot of respect for your takes on this board.  I'll just leave it here.

I respect your opinions. You may very well be right in all of your inclinations w/ Baalke. 

Perhaps I'm just overly perturbed by the amount of unwitting fans jumping onto every negative spin job thrown out there on twitter - and there have ben tons of them lately.

You have a distrust of the GM rooted in more than the latest crap-tweet campaign and you are entitled to it - and I'll stop trying to diminish that. 

Beyond that - If Jags fans are going to get riled up - I'd simply prefer they get mad about something legit opposed to some misinterpreted social media post. The mob mentality thing is pretty out of control right now.

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