Jahns and Hoge on Fuller Contract...........

This is very likely to be the primary topic of debate this winter just as AJ was last winter.

Personally I'd be thinking an offer more in the $40 mil range with $20 mil guaranteed is where Fuller fits but prices for CBs are climbing fast and coming off a $16.7 mil one year deal Trumaine Johnson is likely to be far more expensive to sign than Fuller.  Maybe $12 mil per isn't out of line in 2018.

If it can't be agreed upon should we tag him or use our top pick on a DB like Fitzpatrick who'll command around $18 mil over 4 years?

But JABF, we haven't heard from the "don't overpay" contingent yet. It's more important not to overpay (as subjective a target as that is), than to keep talent, dontyaknow

Exactly. You draw a hard line in the sand and you will lose people that you can't afford to. Not to say that we need to pay WAY more than other teams for people not named Glennon, but we need to do what we need to do to keep good talent.

Yes you have. 65 mil for was a YUGE overpay for NE. So would giving Fuller that same contract this year. We had the discussion on if the 1 year FT or a long term 10 year per year deal was better. As this Hoge/Jahns and Soul point out, 10 mil a year isn't really plausible; 12 mil a year really isn't either, Some team w/to much cap will pay to much for him(ie Byrd/Gilmore), and he's not even at their level, and only 1 of them has shown he was worth that cash; and he got less guaranteed. 

I 100% agree w/Jahns start w/the FT and move on from there. If you can get him for a good long term deal you do it, if you don't, make him prove he's worth a Gilmore/Byrd like contract and go from there.

Throwing money around rarely works, see Orlando Pace, Peppers, Allen, Gilmore(for NE) and Glennon. Our best FA's haven't been the highest paid, see Hicks, Freeman, Prince A, Sitton, before that McCown and Hoyer, Bennett.