The Franchise Tag

[CarolinaNCSU]

I think Hardy will play under the tag, and then sign a long term deal in the offseason for CJ-esque money...and then we cut CJ to free up some cash.

[Jmac]

You are all assuming that he will have another year like last. You never know what a new season will bring, for all we know he may not even have ten sacks and then the value drops.And if he does fall off and won't sign a contract for a reasonable amount for 2015....and he wants to go then let him go.

[stirs]

His value will never be higher than it is right now.

 

Bad for us when it comes to signing, good when it comes to a trade, just sayin...

[panthers55]

That was the point, we might not want to do another CJ contract, but others might.  His agent I am sure knows whether or not some other team is willing to pay him 12 million per season.  The Gman or the agent connects the two and if they will give 12 million to Hardy over a 5 yr deal, and give us compensation, then is that better than an expensive one yr rental.  That was the point of the thread.  Jared Allen came to Minny in just such a fashion

 

I don't think we are planning to trade him as we know it is hard to find players like him.  Plus I suspect that unless CJ restructures, he won't be here beyond this year.  I doubt we are going to get rid of both of our DEs within one year so it makes more sense to keep Hardy particularly if you don't know you can keep CJ.  Honestly we could tag Hardy again next year for roughly 15 million as well.  That is less than the cap for Johnson is right now.  G-man knows that what made our defense very good was pressure and Hardy and Johnson are two of the best.  I don't think Gettleman wants to overpay for players but I don't think he is planning to go cheap either.  I really doubt that the point of franchising was to trade him but we will find out between now and the draft.  If we don't trade him before then we won't trade him since any picks after that are for next year not this year.  It would make no sense to trade away a great player for future picks instead of ones that could help us now.

 

So I hear what you said, I don't agree that is the plan.

[stirs]

The whole point was that there is an 80% chance we do NOT trade him, but was just discussing the outside chance that he has to go.

 

Not sure if CJ's contract is as poisonous at the RB contracts, but I think the author was the same.