It's a fun game and all, and it's a huge deal, but I think we all understand that football contracts are not baseball contracts -- this is not going to be a $92 million deal. He will likely play for 3 years under this deal. Two is also theoretically possible.
I could see Jefferson, even if gets tagged, demanding a trade and the Pats offering up a significant amount, particularly if they can hit on their (fellow LSU Tiger) QB and some other pieces in the draft this year. And Minnesota might be in rebuild mode.
Normally I wouldnt say anything, but youve kinda been a dick about this stuff the last week or so. Just to confirm:
I would be genuinely surprised if any of the top WRs under 30 are available without a trade (Aiyuk, JJ, CeeDee, DeVonta Smith, Waddle, Chase, Higgins... Even Nico). Teams are well aware of how valuable these players are.
I wanted to spend on Ridley, but the guy definitely has holes in his game that were pointed out a bunch here.
The numbers seem high but Levis led the league in air yards per attempt and Ridley was 5th in the league in perimeter yards. With Henry moving on, they will try to keep the pushing the ball long down the field. So Ridley's skill set theoretically matches that plan. We’ll see if it works out at that money.
That was my thought too at first, but general guesswork consensus seems to be that the guarantees were much lower from us. This makes sense in that the Ridley that some people here think still exists would be well worth that money in the next few years, where our offer was hedging against that (i.e., that he's the Ridley that he really is) and Tennessee's offer just doesn't. If he's super mid over the next few years, that deal will look ridiculously bad and ours wouldn't have looked nearly as bad. Caveat--not sure that we know what our offer was exactly.
Yeah, it's kind of a pointless exercise without knowing the structure and my guess is receiver contracts will be bonkers going forward, but still. Is he even 20% better than a guy like Bourne at this point? I'm not sure.
Well yeah. The air yards per attempt helps explain his low completion percentage. His expected completion percentage takes air yards into consideration and says he was more inaccurate than he should have been.
He probably isn't much, but the chicken littles still want to dream on that version that he was for one year four years ago.
Levis was definitely in rarified air last year.
https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/tennessee-titans/calvin-ridley-25121/
Yeah, it's a pretty big number. But they are probably thinking of it like this: They have a ton of cap room right now. Only committing $10 million to Ridley this year means they will likely carry some over to next year to pay for part of the $28.5 million hit next year. They could have smoothed it out more between this year and next -- maybe done like $17 this year and $21 next year. But there's no need to do that. Just carry it over and it's the same thing, and this way if they decide they want to use the money this year because a great opportunity comes knocking, they have the ability to do it.
It's amazing really. Like the option of paying more just wasn't a thing. Not saying they should have, that's debatable, but this does not make feel better.
What he said is harmless. Nobody is going to second guess coming here because of this.
I didn't mean it wasn't harmless, it's just part of the new Kraft M.O. of making public excuses and comments on football ops. Actually the comment I thought was the most bullshit was pretending he didn't know about the daycare thing after getting wrecked on family experience the previous year too
What's even worse about that comment is Ridley is married; wait until his wife finds out he's got a girlfriend, that won't go over well.
