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Re: Jeff Darlington
Right, but they're essentially allowing the other teams to make the decision on what to pay Lamar for them instead of making the choice themselves. It's not as if they're saying, 'We made you our best offer and we're supremely confident that no one else will top it, but if they do, the choice is yours.'
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03-26-2023, 09:45 PM #50Regular 1st Stringer
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03-26-2023, 10:31 PM #51
Re: Jeff Darlington
They don't want to outbid themselves is what it comes down to. Something we generally ridicule sports franchises for doing.
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03-26-2023, 11:36 PM #54Veteran Poster
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Re: Jeff Darlington
That's very understandable. The problem is that this is your franchise QB. He covers up many holes, inadequacies and other issues. There just isn't another QB where you'd get away with being dead last in offensive spending, dead last in WR spending, and still have an offense that scores 25 PPG. No one else is replicating that. Especially with this coaching staff. There's no Andy Reid here. There's no Kyle Shanahan here. Yes, this is business and it's understandable, but this becomes a far more dangerous game when you play it with your franchise QB who means so much to the team's success. To not put your absolute best offer out there before you tagged him, runs the risk of another team calling your bluff, talking to him, those talks going extremely well and that team convincing him that they value him more than the Ravens do. As frustrated as some fans are with Lamar's social media activity, we really haven't seen full blown pissed off Lamar yet. If another team proves us wrong, they convince Lamar that they value him more and that he'll have better overall offensive support there, and he comes to us and says, 'They want to put forth an offer sheet. I'm coming to you ahead of time and asking that you not match it'......if we deny his request because we want more picks from them, this shit gets messy real fast. It's basically saying, 'We've spent an entire year saying you were wrong about your value. We then placed the NE tag on you to prove that you were wrong, but since you were proven right, we still won't let you go unless we get a lot more picks'. That is the perfect way to royally piss the man off. Like, after everything he did here, you weren't willing to go higher, you visited him in Miami, still wouldn't go higher, placed the NE tag on him, still wouldn't go higher, even though you didn't even have to give up picks.....yet, this team, only took 2 months to offer me more money and be willing to give up two firsts to do it.
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Re: Jeff Darlington
"Please take with you this final sword, The Excellector. I am praying that your journey will be guided by the light", Leon Shore
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03-26-2023, 11:49 PM #57Veteran Poster
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Re: Jeff Darlington
What could Lamar do to make this messy? He has to remember he is risking a whole lot of money. What does "full blown pissed off Lamar" look like? You keep saying this as if Lamar doesn't understand that the team is going to do what's beat for the team just like Lamar is doing what's beat for Lamar.
They offered him THE 2ND MOST GUARANTEED MONEY OF ALL TIME. I don't understand how you can think he'll be pissed at the Ravens.
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