Franchise Tag - WR or TE ?

so angry this morning

I'm with ya completely, Satori.

Next time I have a review I'm gonna tell my boss I want to be evaluated as a CEO because I park in the same parking lot as one, work at the same company and do far more work than the CEO does. And I want a pay raise commensurate with that evaluation.  I'm sure he'll completely understand and do my bidding.

 

A guy is what he is and that's the way it is.  Why'd he play TE in college if he thought he'd be a WR in the pros?

For Graham, I get it.  The tag for a top TE isn't in the same ballpark as what he would get on the open market.  For a lot of guys, the tag at least gives them one year similar to the cash they could make on the open market. 

Ha Ha !  75 and sunny and a day off to spend with the kids at the beach.

You wish you were this angry !

What a wonderful life, Satori! And I agree with you: tag them based on their production then as a mid-level receiver. Graham's great, but he wouldn't be as great without Brees. Be thankful for what you got rather than chase Benjamins. I'd be more impressed if a WR or TE would accept a bit less $$ and instead tie their contract length to that of their superstar QB. Now that would be impressive!

I'm angry. 5-7 inches of snow with 20 mph wind gusts in a never ending winter, and a vomiting 3 year old. Calgon, take me away!

I'm happy.  First day since last Thursday that my head hasn't felt like a blocked up squirt gun full of snot and my brain isn't play Bang the Drum from inside my head.

Snow?  Keep it coming.  Home repair is gonna be a booming business come the thaw and we need jobs, right?    

My fault Tdog, I assumed we were all lifeguards.

I thought we were all on complete disability living off Keil's taxes.

This will fix itself over time.  5 years ago, the TE was not a high value position.  You had Gates and Gonzalez but other than that, not many consistent difference makers.   That pushed the franchise tag number down when a position only has 2 premier players.  Now if young guys like Gronk, Graham, V Davis, J Thomas, etc. can make TE a high value position, the tag number will go up.  

Yes it will

 

They changed the formula in the last CBA; so it may take a little longer. The formula used to be the average of the current top 5, but now the average is diluted by the average of the top 5 over the last five years. So it takes a little longer to move up to the current contracts. None of them even want the tag, so its strange how much they fight over it. Its all just another negotiation point.

thought you were at the beach angry man

 

At least he spent more than 13 seconds thinking of something worthwhile to say....

pawned 'em off on the neighbors, they're much better surfers than this old man

 

Always good to pawn kids off....not enough of that being done these days.