The upper management team of Demoff, Snead, and Pastoors has made some questionable to bad decisions in which players they give extensions to and for how much.
From what I can tell, the HC says X player is really important, I want to retain him. Then the coach relies on that upper management team to get it done.
That's how it was reported to happen in the JJ case. But someone bungled that situation. Then they compounded it by choosing to tag the wrong CB.
JJ failed negotiation - low ball offer (reported to be $9M highest offer) or badly misjudged the market which was clear erroneous judgment in hindsight.
JJ / TruJ franchise tag choice - If you can't sign either, at least tag the best one.
TA extension - widely criticized as giving him way too much.
Barron extension - near elite LB money but not an elite LB.
AO extension - Same as Barron. The decision to extend him has to fall on the coaches too.
AO trade - Appears to be an admission that his extension was a mistake. Why was he made the highest paid ILB in the game when he has NEVER been near elite. As a result, they are eating $6.4M in dead money when they could have just let him walk and recouped the comp. pick next year.
Donald, TruJ, Joyner, Watkins - the good players that really deserve to be extended, they've never been successful at getting done
Bottom line: It appears to me, that they have extended players that shouldn't be extended and have compounded that error every time by overpaying them. Someone may say that overpaying was a reality of the team being so bad. Valid point. The counter is, if you're going to overpay, at least do it on your elite players, not the average ones.
Free agency last year was really good. I believe the drafts over the years have been good. But in player retention decision making, this upper management group has not been good.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/08/2018 05:08AM by dzrams.
