06-02-2017, 05:15 PM
(06-02-2017, 03:39 PM)Au165 Wrote: So couple issues, one your basing your tag number on this past year expect it to be about 10% higher next year. The other issue is that second year tag will make him far and away the highest TE in the league, what if thats the year he gets hurt again? The smart thing is to structure it incentive based with a decent base salary. Sign him to 4 years with a 6.5 million a year base (putting him around 15th in league), with games played incentives allowing him to be a top 3 TE. Base it that way for the first two years with a decent signing bonus and an out after year 3 in case he does end up hurt again. This gives him motivation to sign and gives us good value if he misses time or it means we have one of the top TE in the game and he is paid like it.
If we go the tag route all your doing is rolling the dice every year while paying him as the top TE in the game. Also understand going for the multi year deal, we can stretch the cap number making it a lot lower as we go where as each year we tag him we eat the full cap number which hurt the rest of our roster.
The tag number isn't going to raise by much in 1 year. You also have to consider that the salary cap will likely also go up. IMO, rolling the dice would be giving a long term deal to a player with Eifert's injury history. As LL pointed out, TE contracts have gone up...so 6.5 per probably isn't happening.
I'm as big of an Eifert guy as there is on this board, but I realize that Eifert is the perfect tag candidate due to his history. We need to see if he can stay healthy. If he does, bam. Tag him and negotiate. If he leaves after the tag is up, oh well, we still got most of his career. He'd be coming up on 30 soon after that.
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