Opinions on Ekwonu

[kungfoodude]

Just now, ForJimmy said:

Hell I might throw an extension his way before he gets more expensive. He is a decent young LT with even more upside 

Eh....you know I would rather wait a little bit and end up overpaying for a great player than pay too early and find out they are not a great player.

I really intensely dislike that move in all but a few cases.

[Jon Snow]

4 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

Eh....you know I would rather wait a little bit and end up overpaying for a great player than pay too early and find out they are not a great player.

I really intensely dislike that move in all but a few cases.

Yeah I don't want to hear any extensions talk for anyone on this team. Anyone not already extended will not be extended until the end of the season, if at all. You don't hand out big contracts to players on the worst team in the league. It's loonisy to even consider it. 

Edited October 9 by Jon Snow

[ForJimmy]

2 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

Eh....you know I would rather wait a little bit and end up overpaying for a great player than pay too early and find out they are not a great player.

I really intensely dislike that move in all but a few cases.

That’s fair. I’m assuming he will look better if we actually keep him in the same offensive in consecutive years… Regardless his play this year has to be towards the bottom of things I’m concerned about. 

[kungfoodude]

Just now, Jon Snow said:

Yeah I don't want to hear any extensions talk for anyone on this team. Anyone not already extended will not be extended until the end of the season, if at all. You don't had out big contracts to players on the worst team in the league. It's loonisy to even consider it. 

Yeah, the only guy I am probably having that discussion with is Johnson's agent in case we start getting viable trade offers. If he has zero desire to stick around or wants bananas money, you would be foolish to not consider trade offers.

[BIGH2001]

8 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

Eh....you know I would rather wait a little bit and end up overpaying for a great player than pay too early and find out they are not a great player.

I really intensely dislike that move in all but a few cases.

True. Fitterer would have offered him a 5 year extension after the raiders game. 

[Martin]

He’s a solid LT. Just leave him where he is. 

[PNW_PantherMan]

9 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

Eh....you know I would rather wait a little bit and end up overpaying for a great player than pay too early and find out they are not a great player.

I really intensely dislike that move in all but a few cases.

[Jon Snow]

1 minute ago, kungfoodude said:

Yeah, the only guy I am probably having that discussion with is Johnson's agent in case we start getting viable trade offers. If he has zero desire to stick around or wants bananas money, you would be foolish to not consider trade offers.

I would try to trade Johnson myself. This team is in no shape to be paying big money to a wr right now. It's time time draft and play those players and take our lumps. Worry about signing our own drafted receiver to a long term contract if we ever draft one worth it.

[ForJimmy]

5 minutes ago, Jon Snow said:

Yeah I don't want to hear any extensions talk for anyone on this team. Anyone not already extended will not be extended until the end of the season, if at all. You don't hand out big contracts to players on the worst team in the league. It's loonisy to even consider it. 

Understandable. I was thinking he would be cheap right now and he wouldn’t have to worry about LT for a while. 

[kungfoodude]

Just now, Jon Snow said:

I would try to trade Johnson myself. This team is in no shape to be paying big money to a wr right now. It's time time draft and play those players and take our lumps. Worry about signing our own drafted receiver to a long term contract if we ever draft one worth it.

To me that is about two prices. The price Johnson wants and the trade offers we get. If he's reasonably affordable(sub-20 mil APY), I keep him and extend.

If we get offered more than a 4th, that's an incentive to move him by the trade deadline.

[ForJimmy]

Just now, PNW_PantherMan said:

That was an overpayment on a FA we just signed. Much similar to DJ now who people are wanting to extend. Icky would be a player we drafted in year 3 of his contract. It’s still early on Icky because we get that 5th year option and some of these other expensive OL might be off the books by then. 

[Jon Snow]

1 minute ago, ForJimmy said:

Understandable. I was thinking he would be cheap right now and he wouldn’t have to worry about LT for a while. 

Paying him now does not remove the worry about LT. I would not extend him until I had to because, as you've seen, you do not know how the season will play out or who may be available in the draft. Patience padawon.

[PNW_PantherMan]

5 minutes ago, ForJimmy said:

Understandable. I was thinking he would be cheap right now and he wouldn’t have to worry about LT for a while. 

And if he then regresses and looks like he's not very good at LT again?  I would rather just wait and see how he does.  We need a bigger sample size of good games.

[Jon Snow]

6 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

To me that is about two prices. The price Johnson wants and the trade offers we get. If he's reasonably affordable(sub-20 mil APY), I keep him and extend.

If we get offered more than a 4th, that's an incentive to move him by the trade deadline.

I'm just not enamored with what he brings to this team in it's current state. To me it would be a wasted contract without a future qb to develop with him. Until we have that it's just not financially feasible to invest big in receivers when you don't have a qb and probably won't for a couple more seasons yet. I think they should just keep drafting them and let the cream rise to the top. When they do that's who you throw money at.

Edited October 9 by Jon Snow