Did You Know... (AJ Green)

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Kind of misleading because the tag by it's nature makes you one of the highest paid players in the league. That cost comes with the value to a team that it's a one year deal, a deal most players would not take otherwise because they want longer term stability...like AJ wants. The other issue here is there are an unusually large amount of guys who tool cheaper front loaded deals with massive escalators next year. For example Amari Cooper is 12 Million this year and 22 Million next year and Mike Thomas goes from 7 Million this year to 18.8 next year. When guys are on longer term deals they can spread when those larger hits are occurring.

This is more of a straw man argument for some to point to declining production, but the only difference in tagging him and not tagging him is that with the tag we have AJ Green and without it we don't. The current projection of 24 Million with the tag provides plenty of cap to add a good vetern O linemen if we wanted to, but it appears we do not. The current contract only applies to this year so it does not impact re signings of any of our players. The current cap exceeds the amount allowed to be rolled over so we couldn't even push it forward to use next year. There is literally nothing lost by having him here on the tag other than a weird issue with him "not being worth it" when the only thing that money would be doing if not being in AJ's pocket is be sitting in Mike Brown's.