07-02-2018, 01:07 PM
(06-27-2018, 11:50 PM)Bengalbug Wrote: Maybe he doesn’t even want to resign here? Not yet anyway.
He will be 32/33 when he signs his next contract, on the backside of his career.
If this team doesn’t show improvement, what is to keep him from going somewhere to win? He clearly doesn’t need to be the highest paid.
I think Green is like Atkins, where the team is willing to take the L on production late in his career just because of what he's meant. That said, they still won't overpay. If Green is still a Pro Bowler at 32 - and willing to move to the slot (which he has said he'd do when he knows he's lost a step) - I can see the team keeping him around at market value. Green wants to go to the HOF, though, so I could see him also examining the Super Bowl chances at that point knowing that it's getting harder and harder for receivers to get in and such things do matter to voters. It'll be interesting to see what he's thinking after next year when the team wants to talk extension.
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