Re: Jordan Love Extension
Posted: 26 Jul 2024 22:24
So this is technically a 5 year, $232.757 million deal. $47.5 million per year.
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You may want to temper your expectations considering what Gutekunst said concerning getting Love extended:lupedafiasco wrote: ↑26 Jul 2024 22:53Save it for the mid season arms race and roll the rest over. Not being able or willing to take needy in the MBA style trade deadline arms race has cost us Super Bowls at the end of Rodgers dominance.
Clearly Gutekunst and the Packers have reservations over handing out big contracts to just anyone. I would postulate that extends to exposing the organization to those knee jerk deadline moves you're talking about. As you've already noted, the Packers have not made any significant trade deadline moves of late and it doesn't sound like Gutekunst is the type to just jump at a player on impulse."The nice thing about having a guy in your building for the last four years is you absolutely know who he is. There's no guarantees about anything going forward. But we know how he's going to respond and how he's going to react and how he's going to work, instead of signing a player that has not been in your building and guaranteeing all that to him.
"Certainly having four years with him, I think gives us a lot of comfort, and what he's all about and how his teammates look at him and the organization looks at him."
- Brian Gutekunst
Yessiree GPG. That big W on Thanksgiving Day combined with the big W in Dallas. Great timing going into contract negotiations for a QB that was 9 and 8 in the regular season. I hope his receivers can consistently get open and the line keeps the running attack viable throughout 2024/2025.
Looks like contract still being worked through by the media as these numbers are a bit different.The deal has $100.8 million fully guaranteed at signing, with a practical guarantee of $140.3 million. After only two seasons, the full guarantee moves to $160.3 million.
I agree and disagree. Our placekicker is currently a glaring weakness. Hope the place kicking situation gets fixed prior to the Eagles game. The kicker needs to bring consistency to his place kicking duties.musclestang wrote: ↑27 Jul 2024 07:52Now that THAT is taken care of we can move forward. I still have reservations because it's a huge sum of money and I've seen many QB's come in and dominate only to have what they do well be taken away after an offseason and not be able to adapt. I've always said, that's what really separates the greats like Brady, Rodgers Etc from those that look really good when everything else is good. Couple that with the fact i can't scout QB talent better than a coin flip, it makes me nervous until I see it repeated.
But what was GB going to do? put themselves in a worse situation going forward by not extending him? Not really an option in my eyes either, so here we go.
That said, this team doesn't have any glaring weakness heading into the season. There don't seem to be any sure fire, must have additions I see this team needs to go out and get now in order to have a chance. We have a lot of talented youth who actually earned some stripes last season. I expect their hunger to carry over and push and propel each other. Let's just watch that for a bit.
If something comes up, someone falls off, someone that is an obvious upgrade becomes available, injury etc, Gutey always has his eyes open and we can buy, spend, trade once things start to shake out.
Our kicker is 11 of 12 so far with his only miss hitting the crossbar on a 50 yard FGRingoCStarrQB wrote: ↑27 Jul 2024 11:13I agree and disagree. Our placekicker is currently a glaring weakness. Hope the place kicking situation gets fixed prior to the Eagles game. The kicker needs to bring consistency to his place kicking duties.musclestang wrote: ↑27 Jul 2024 07:52Now that THAT is taken care of we can move forward. I still have reservations because it's a huge sum of money and I've seen many QB's come in and dominate only to have what they do well be taken away after an offseason and not be able to adapt. I've always said, that's what really separates the greats like Brady, Rodgers Etc from those that look really good when everything else is good. Couple that with the fact i can't scout QB talent better than a coin flip, it makes me nervous until I see it repeated.
But what was GB going to do? put themselves in a worse situation going forward by not extending him? Not really an option in my eyes either, so here we go.
That said, this team doesn't have any glaring weakness heading into the season. There don't seem to be any sure fire, must have additions I see this team needs to go out and get now in order to have a chance. We have a lot of talented youth who actually earned some stripes last season. I expect their hunger to carry over and push and propel each other. Let's just watch that for a bit.
If something comes up, someone falls off, someone that is an obvious upgrade becomes available, injury etc, Gutey always has his eyes open and we can buy, spend, trade once things start to shake out.
The Dolphins are fools for re-signing Tua, period. Love, to a degree, is still a question mark, and in that sense, I do not like the idea of giving him so much money. But I also understand that this is just the way the league works now. Tua on the other hand is what he is- a left handed Dak Prescott who is injury prone. He is listed at 6'1" but I have my doubts about that- I believe he is smaller. Rule #1 of Papa's GMing Bible- never give undersized injury- prone QB's the big money. Dolphins are $%@#.