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My guess is Baker gets a longer term deal they can stretch the hit into later years.
My guess is Baker gets a longer term deal they can stretch the hit into later years.
Love you, Mike.
Baker will be re-signed in the next 48 hours.
100% Baker coming back. Mike is on record saying he does not want to play with a rookie QB. I don't think he signs this unless he knows who the QB is.
I don't see how you can pass up this QB class for Baker Mayfield if you're in the top 3, and I freaking love Baker Mayfield.
I think you dreaming
Mike has produced with any number of bad to mediocre QBs in his career. However, I don't see him going out trying to break in a rookie from the back end of the 1st round, but that's just me. Maybe there aren't "promises" per se, but he has a really good idea who the QB is going to be. Otherwise there's no real reason for him to be the first one to sign. He'd just sit tight.
Exactly.
I think he essentially tested the free agent market during the combine, not a coincidence he just signed right when it wrapped up. He had a goal, he got it and the offer from Tampa may not have been so good if he waited since as I understand it they were faced some dead money if they did not extend him by a certain date. Either way, I think he fully understands this was his best offer.
Deadline on that money was last week. Bucs have to pay it now regardless. That's why a lot of us were concerned that he was actually going to leave because it wasn't done prior.
National reporters had about a dozen teams going after him. Somebody said he could get the same money and more years. Who knows.
Go on…
The patriots already got their future stud when they signed Nathan Rourke.
Nah, everytime the Saints and Bucs get in a scrap he does something thuggish, but in a cowardly way (hitting a player from behind, that kind of thing).
Godwin is "supposedly" returning to the slot this year anyway. Sure, without a star WR the slot guy could be used more (or maybe even Godwin would end up out wide after all, had they not kept Evans). But shouldn't make a big difference for him if that was true.
That's honestly the right answer
You’ve seen the best of that guy, unfortunately
From an AAV perspective I think he'll only be behind Tyreek Hill, so no discount in that case. However, I do think he could have made more guaranteed money on a longer term deal if he'd hit the market. Adams was just one year younger and signed a deal for 5 years and $140M with $65M guaranteed only two seasons ago.
He got 35 mill guaranteed over two years, and I assumed any deals wouldn't have guaranteed money after the first two years, so I am guessing if he took a discount, it wasn't massive. I think his agent knew what TB was thinking about, went to the Combine, and sniffed around, and found the guaranteed money was similar.
Just the human side, in general. This is a human, with a wife, and three kids, who have been in Tampa for a decade--and is loved in town, and is wanted back. Evans re-signing with Tampa should have always been the overwhelming favored result. Most people, if they are in a place they like, and their boss likes them, want to stay where they are.
Shoot, I didn't 't think he was going to be this good with Baker.
Yeah, that deal, when announced, everyone was like, yeah, sounds about right.
