Post by riczaj01 on Nov 4, 2023 4:33:09 GMT -6
This guy is going to get 21-25 aav, and he'll be worth every penny. There is no one in FA that you get like him for less; and you aren't finding him in the 2024 draft in the first, let alone 2nd round. JJ will get FT'd and sign a longterm deal.
B/C DC wasn't going to let him unless he got traded, and the team that traded for him wasn't/isn't going to let him. The player 100% does not have a choice. He'll be 27 next year and the Bears can tag him 2 times, putting him heading into his 30th year and well past the point of getting a huge blow out contract; not past the point of being productive, Mack and others have proven DE's can go well into their 30's, and this dude is a 100% unit. But he won't be getting a super huge contract.
He and his agent have a reason to want to get a deal done, and the Bears hold all the cards to make sure that deal is w/them. At this point you are being purposefully ignorant on how contracts work in the NFL. He's made around 11mil on his last contract, a FT is 20+ mil, if the Bears FT him, he's playing, he's not sitting out. The Bears can then tell him, now lets work out a longterm deal b/c we are fully committed to another FT regardless of the cost next year, but we don't want to do it.
AT NO POINT was Sweat, REGARDLESS OF TEAM, seeing FA. EVER. DE's like him do not see FA for a reason. They are traded or re signed, not cut.
