(02-03-2024, 10:22 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(02-03-2024, 07:20 PM)Jaguarmeister Wrote: The talking heads can say whatever they want, but the truth of the matter is if Allen plays on the tag, he's shouldering all of the injury risk next season and facing the likelihood of being on the tag again the following season.  Injury is the biggest risk to him never seeing his true payday and if I were him I wouldn't forgo ~$75M guaranteed or whatever it's going to be for $22M this year and all the injury risk is on me.  Neither party should want that.  If things get contentious and he decides to allow himself to be tagged in back to back years rather than sign, he'll finally be free in his age 29 season. Not that he wouldn't get a nice multi-year deal at that point, but I'd view that being much closer to the end of his prime years than the beginning and front offices might as well depending on how successful a season he has in 2025. That's a lot of risk to shoulder on his part when ~$75M or more guaranteed is staring you in the face.

I never said anything about playing on the tag. I'm talking about negotiating a deal while tagged in the offseason. 

I'm talking about Allen's agent not signing a deal until the other top free agent edge players sign theirs - to hopefully boost his number. Prior to the 2024 reg season. 

We have seen agents do this in the past when they think another guy is about to get overpaid.

Agents job is to get the most he can. Drawing out the negotiations is an easy way to show he is doing that. Since a team only has one tag it has gotten to be a kind of badge of the value of the player to the team to use it. Last year we used it on Evan and Taylor signed elsewhere. I expect Allen's contract discussions will proceed along like Evan's did. Now if someone overpays Ridley he will take it just like Taylor did. 

As for the annual Edge who signs first rodeo it will be interesting. No one wants to be first LOL

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