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JNo - To Tag or Not to Tag?

Rocky Davis

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A response I made in another thread, but I thought worthy of its own discussion:

Absolutely love that he has worked so hard to become one of the top, if not the best, corners in the league, but he will be 29 later in 2016 most likely playing under the tag.

I haven't seen any news about his expectations for a new contract, but we have to be careful with term and money.  What kind of contract would everyone be willing to give to Josh with age/salary cap implications?

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Gonna have to pay him big (somewhere between 10 and 15mil per year), which is not out of the question, or tag him is what I am thinking.  Either way, I think he'll be a top-five-paid DB for the next three or four years, whether it's as a Panther or something else.

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I love JNo.

He loves being a Panther.

But at the end of the day two big important things are left to consider:

1) He wants to get PAID. Like stupid crazy money that we probably don't have available to him. 

2) He is a great player in our system. I have my reservations with him on how he would do on most other teams however, and that's due to how the defense unit plays as a whole. Which brings me to my point. Let's say he is an above average (not elite like a Sherman) at best.  Theoretically if you plugged another above average CB into our system, wouldn't that person have similar results JNO has had?

With that said, regardless of his future at Carolina, I'd put money on we bring in additional talent via FA and draft. 

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At age 28, Josh has to be really realistic about his earning potential.  Now he could sign a 3 year / $40 million with the first two years heavily guaranteed.  If he's tagged, next off season he'll be 29, looking for a 5 year deal that he won't get.  There has been a tendency for good corners to go down hill at 30.  It's a similar situation to running backs.  It's not always true, but Josh has to be realistic.

If the Panthers let him test the open market, some team would throw $15 million a season at him, but chances are they will be a bad team.  Does he want a Super Bowl as part of a great team?  Or does he want to go else where, make some extra cash and hope they can be as good as us?

Part of that is up to him.

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Just now, top dawg said:

Gonna have to pay him big (somewhere between 10 and 15mil per year), which is not out of the question, or tag him is what I am thinking.  Either way, I think he'll be a top-five-paid DB for the next three or four years, whether it's as a Panther or something else.

I hope there is some middle ground as I am sure he would rather have a contract than the tag.  

In a majority of situations with smaller market teams, the tag has always seemed to be a negative.

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2 minutes ago, Hotsauce said:

I love JNo.

He loves being a Panther.

But at the end of the day two big important things are left to consider:

1) He wants to get PAID. Like stupid crazy money that we probably don't have available to him. 

2) He is a great player in our system. I have my reservations with him on how he would do on most other teams however, and that's due to how the defense unit plays as a whole. Which brings me to my point. Let's say he is an above average (not elite like a Sherman) at best.  Theoretically if you plugged another above average CB into our system, wouldn't that person have similar results JNO has had?

With that said, regardless of his future at Carolina, I'd put money on we bring in additional talent via FA and draft. 

I have thought about the "system" and have wondered if that has helped JNo, but once our secondary started dropping like flies I watched his coverage and instincts and believe he is an elite corner.  He is more in the mold of Revis rather than Sherman (who, IMHO, dropped a level or two this past year).

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5 minutes ago, Rocky Davis said:

I hope there is some middle ground as I am sure he would rather have a contract than the tag.  

In a majority of situations with smaller market teams, the tag has always seemed to be a negative.

I am not a contract lawyer or expert, but If we can get him for 10-12 mil per year, I think that would be the middle ground.

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