02-23-2022, 10:10 PM
(02-23-2022, 09:56 PM)Au165 Wrote: Letting other teams negotiate market rate through a transition tag has a lot of value when player and teams aren’t close because of disagreement on value. The issue with a franchise tag is that no team is going to give up two picks and a massive deal for all but a very few select players league wide so there is no real “market check”. Franchise tagging a player in the end gets you no closer to a long term deal if the player still lives in an imaginary world of what their value is.
I’m a big fan of the transition tag in cases where value is hard to establish but that I don’t believe is the issue here. I believe structure of deal, mainly guarantees and signing bonus are the major issues not the average per year.
I dont disagree, but like you I dont think Jesse's case would apply.
