JC Jackson wants Jalen Ramsey money, and he may be able to
get it because the Patriots reportedly don't plan to use
the franchise tag on day, two Jacks. Well, I'll believe it
when it doesn't happen. This is the
thing that that is odd to me about the process of using
the franchise tag. Chris.
They created two week window for you. Don't need a two-week
window. You need one day, 8:00 a.m. To 4:00 p.m. One day.
That's when you apply the franchise tag, very rarely. Do
we see tags get applied early. Sometimes
it And because teams want to send a message to other teams
hands off at the scouting combine.
Don't even bother
talking to player X is agent because he's already been
tagged, but that didn't happen this year. The first tag, we
heard of comes courtesy of the Kansas City Chiefs via ESPN,
Orlando. Brown
will be tagged, not a surprise. They traded for him. Just
a year ago. You don't want them to walk out the door as a free
agent after you've just traded for him. So 16 to half million
roughly would he'll make on a one-year deal.
Well, it gives the Chiefs time
to try to work out. A long-term contract. The deadline is July
15. Otherwise the player can only play under a one-year
contract. So we know he's tagged with back to JC Jackson
kind of a surprise
that the Patriots
aren't willing to tag him. We don't know whether or not
they're willing to pay him but they're gonna have to compete
with everybody else.
If they don't tag him and they already they're already got rid
of Stephon Gilmore.
We thought we got rid of Gilmore that meant they were
going to keep Jackson. Maybe they keep neither.
I guess they're calling his bluff a little bit. Right. And
I guess they don't want that one year, huge Chunk on their
on their salary or on their payroll to where they'd like to
okay. Go ahead. Look at shop yourself around and
come back to us and
there they'll see if they can match or make something long
term work that makes sense for you know, the year your yearly
salary cap hit there.
But like here's the vert like
my first off, you know, on social media. Look at a lot of
people are like, that's crazy. Crazy. JC Jackson wants Jalen.
Ramsey. What what are you talking about? It is not.
What is what the hell is everybody? Talking? You mean
the guy that's got like more interceptions than anybody in
football over the last four years. I mean,
you mean the guy that's like plays man-to-man more than any
other corner and football. I mean look wasn't it during
the playoffs? When who with the dbe's Darius slave was texting
during the player. Who was that was like man? Yeah, the New
England all they do
is play man-to-man every play.
Nobody was more pressure on their Corners in jail than
the New England Patriots, JC. Jackson is one of the best
corners in the sport.
Yeah, is he Jalen Ramsey? I don't know in a lot of ways.
I think his man-to-man coverage skills are every bit as good as
Jason,
Jalen Ramsey. I do.
I mean, this is a guy that bit, they didn't let Stephon Gilmore
float down the river because they thought JC Jackson was
chopped liver. They went way way. This guy is legit number
one corner,
we can we need him. We don't have to pay Stephon Gilmore and
Jesse Jackson along the same time, you know, you want to
compare to other people in the market, right? Right. We want
to look at it that way. Marshawn. Latimore's
making nineteen point five million dollars a year.
I'm taking JC Jackson / marché on Lattimore.
I'm taking JC Jackson, Overture Davis, White is making 17.2.
Not even close in that department in my opinion.
So he is worthy of that contract, that, that, that is
real.
And I would think that he gets something close to that in
the market, and it's by my New England Patriots. Did you
intend to make a rhyme there when you were saying, they
wouldn't have sent Stephon Gilmore down the river. If they
believe,
Jesse. Was chopped liver. I did totally deny. That, was that,
was that damn? That was good. That rolled off the tongue
nicely, but I did not mean to do that.
Here's the other reality to Jim Ramsey, got his five year. 100
million dollar contract while under contract with the Rams,
you maximize your earnings by becoming a free agent first day
of free agency strike it, rich. It happens every year. There's
always going to be teams that have money to spend. They want
to create some Buzz.
They want to renew season tickets.
They want to take attention away from other sports teams
in their ticket. It's part of the business of football. Will
worry later, whether or not, the guy can play for. Now.
Let's hold up that Jackson Jersey.
We got one of the best Patriots players, here. He is. It's
easier. It's easier to get maximum dollars. If you can hit
the open market unfettered. That's why the franchise tag is
not a good thing for players. It never has been and never
will be
because it keeps the player
from getting the Payday.
The potentially generational generational wealth that he's
already earned. It delays it by a year. Then it delays it by
a second year. And maybe by the time you get to the point where
you can finally force your way to the market, the rest of
the market doesn't care,
but I think they'll line up for j.c. Jackson, if he's available
dirty, talk about maybe the Chargers going after him.
They'll be teams that go after Jesse Jackson, if they truly,
don't apply the franchise tag. Chris will find out by 4:00
Eastern tomorrow.
Maybe maybe the Patriots are just messing with us.
We'll find out whether or not they follow through on their
plan to not do it. No, you're right. But I mean you said
there's a team that makes a lot of sense right off the bat.
I mean, Brandon Stanley, we talked about it, we talked
about they need more dbe's with the way they play. I mean, they
have
a lot of money to spend.
There's a need for a guy, like Jesse Jackson, Jesse Jackson
could do it. All, he really is. He's a phenomenal Zone corner.
He can play shut down man, to man.
He didn't have his best year last year playing man-to-man,
but still makes a ton of football plays
and they put him in a ton of such a tough situations,
you know, again from my money.
I look at it. Jalen Ramsey, Marlon, Humphrey, Lattimore
Jaya large, Iraq.
Xander Xavier in Howard JC. Jackson
those to me are the top names in the sport when it comes to
guys. That can cover, you know, the elite receivers. I think
that's the cream of the crop of those guys. I just mentioned
right there, which means, you know, he deserves to be paid in
that range is the the top Corner in the sport.
And,
you know, the other Allen with Jackson last year when he was
restricted free agent. They only used a second-round
tender, and he got no interest whatsoever. I thought someone
when they apply the second, And tender, right? Someone would
happily give up a second round, pick to try
to snatch him away from the Patriots. It didn't happen. But
if he walks into the open market unrestricted,
he's gonna get, he may get better than Jalen Ramsey money.
By the time it's all said and done. We mentioned Orlando,
Brown, reportedly Chiefs are tagging him. Dante Adams. We
expect the Packers.
We expect the Packers.
God will buy the franchise tag to Davante Adams.
They haven't made much progress in the long-term deal.
And then the question becomes, if they tagged him. Does he get
an extension before? Li 15, here's, here's something I want
to point out, and I remember when Davante Adams did his
current contract late in the 2017 season. Actually,
after the regular season was over,
the Packers, didn't go to the playoffs that year. That was
one of the years that Aaron Rodgers broke his collarbone,
right? They were done. The hay was in the barn. The season was
over. His contract, was over
the injury. Risk was completely off his shoulders.
He did a long-term extension
instead of waiting
to see whether or not they apply the franchise tag
that that was a mistake then
and it makes it a more
glaring mistake now because he'd be getting tag number two
for his career. Once you get tagged twice, you're never
getting tagged again as a receiver because it's
quarterback money, right? You get tagged a third time
if he had forced them. If his agent had said, let's not do
this deal. Now, let's wait until after they tagged you if
they do, if they don't you're a free agent.
You can hit the open market,
but if they tagged you
that's tag, number one,
then when this for years ends,
they tagged you again.
Tag number two, they're never tagging to get in. Nobody's
ever tagging you again after that. And that's important to
Adams, because he'd be one year away from the market,
the open market,
if he had done that for years ago, now, they could tag him
twice and then let him walk away. And he'd be I he's got to
be close to 30. Now, you they could just decide they're going
to tag him the next two years and then let him go
and you're not going to get the money that you would get on
the open market. If you were able to hit it right now Chris. No
definitely not, you know, again, I you know, do they want
to treat somebody like that again,
you know. Disrespect another great player on their football
team like they just did Aaron Rodgers another that Davante
Adams who do I would think they want to make things warm and
cozy with him, you know one
if Rogers does stay of course, it's the number one Target in
the guy, but even if Rogers leaves, you still want to look
into your fan base and go away. We still got Davante Adams and
we're still got a real team here. That's special.
I mean, but this is going to be big money to the re-sign
Davante. Adams. Of course, I mean, his numbers are gigantic
the last few years.
He's definitely one of the
Wide receivers and football.
Oh, yeah. I mean is he my cup of tea
at the receiver position? No, not necessarily, you know who
I like. I like the Jamar chases and Debo Samuels and Tyree
kills and those guys is the world a little bit more
but this is a special player
and they're going to have to pay him,
you know, somewhere in the
23. 24 25 26, 27 million dollars. A year.
What's Hopkins, average, salary average for your salary right
now Mike? Right. Wasn't around. He won seven new money. That's
the seventh. Ooh, money, but that was a deal that was done
without an expiring contract, right? Gets
it gets funky when you're talking about an extension
versus a contest, right? Nobody's close to 27 million on
contract from scratch. No, no than that. But at the very
least the next guys down, I believe, if I remember
correctly or like Julio right around 21
or 22, Keenan, Allen was around 20 if I remember right from
last night. So then
you know, you add that a Davante Adams, certainly and
that class if not better than those guys right there. So
that's that's a big number
definitely and I would think at some point they figure it all
out.
I haven't heard this. Yeah, right.
I haven't heard that. This is possible,
but would it be crazy
if
Devante Adam gets tagged by the Packers.
And then
it's Rogers and Adams to the Broncos together
for whatever they give up for Rogers. Plus whatever they
would give up for atoms
and they get to go to the next team. They get to continue.
Adam gets his payday from the Broncos is still playing with
Aaron Rodgers. That would be something if that happened
now, they probably have to give back. Jerry Judy. Yeah,
right Courtney. You got to be something. Yes, right. Dudley,
but man if the if the All those could come out of this with
Rogers, add atoms.
That would be something
that would be the definitely. I mean, I'm sure Aaron Rodgers
would love that, that would again there, you know, goes
into our theme of, you know, him being warm and cozy and
having people around him that he trusts, and understands
I get that definitely.
But I have a hard time thinking green baize, and I'll let that
happen. You know. Hey, we might lose Rogers.
It ain't going to be a good look
if the Denver Broncos next year in the playoffs and tearing it
up with Davante Adams and Aaron Rodgers the Green Bay fan
basis. Yo, what the hell? We let both of our best players
out the door and here they are
kicking butt for another football team right now.
I don't know. I don't know if they could swallow that but
I think because of the Roger situation and puts extra
pressure on them to make this Adams thing work in Green Bay,
and we would be rooting very very zealously for a rematch of
Super Bowl 32.
32 or 33 32 that yeah, that was this. Brock. Yeah, 32, right.
That was 32. Yeah. That was a good one. My favorite one of my
favorite Super Bowls ever.