Daryl Williams and the franchise tag

[Mr. Scot]

10 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

You're worth what the market says you're worth. If someone gives it to him then he didn't overvalue anything.

Kind of agree. There are definitely instances when teams overpay (Lord knows we've done it a few times).

Williams is betting on himself, and in a market where guys of average talent have been known to get above average pay, it's kind of hard to blame him.

[t96]

To all those responding “no way,” can you say what you’d be willing to pay on a 1 year deal?

[LinvilleGorge]

2 minutes ago, t96 said:

To all those responding “no way,” can you say what you’d be willing to pay on a 1 year deal?

With a knee with a clean bill of health or with a medically red flagged knee? That's the key piece of info all of us are missing and other teams' medical staff may or may not come to the same conclusions.

[t96]

2 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

With a knee with a clean bill of health or with a medically red flagged knee? That's the key piece of info all of us are missing and other teams' medical staff may or may not come to the same conclusions.

There’s no indication that he isn’t recovering just fine so for the sake of discussion we’ll assume his knee looks good, but you can certainly take into account that he missed last season due to an injury.

[Krovvy]

I feel like the franchise tag might be too much of a gamble, but maybe necessary.

[thefuzz]

12 minutes ago, t96 said:

To all those responding “no way,” can you say what you’d be willing to pay on a 1 year deal?

Million or two more than our savings from cutting Kalil as a June 1.

So, sub 8M or so...which he wouldn't take.

[Bronn]

I wouldn't give him any more than a one year prove it deal at $5 M, or a three year deal averaging about $4 M with incentives.

OL and leg injuries scare me. No way am I guaranteeing a guy coming back from that kind of injury a lot of money.

[Basbear]

Not that I like repeating Joe Person, but he said that Williams agent/crew wants a Matt Kalil deal. If true LOL, bye!! 

[LinvilleGorge]

2 hours ago, t96 said:

There’s no indication that he isn’t recovering just fine so for the sake of discussion we’ll assume his knee looks good, but you can certainly take into account that he missed last season due to an injury.

If there was a RT specific franchise tag it would probably be in the $8M range, would that.

[Cpt slay a ho]

Offer what we’re willing to offer and go from there, if neogotiations get to high in price just let him walk, transition tag would be interesting if he had put together 2 solid seasons but it’s best to not take a big gamble signing him long term or to big money until he at least puts together another season 

[FakePlasticTrees]

No to each. Too much for too little and I highly doubt any team would be interested at those prices.

[panthers55]

If he was recovered and healthy we should try a long term deal. But it depends on his health at this point. I wouldn't exclusive franchise him but would consider the transition tag if I didn't want to lose him and thought we could sign him long-term. Depends on how much he wants and if I thought I could replace him cheaper.  Don't think we can pay 11million for him if we couldn't or didn't want to sign him long term.

[Trill OG]

Im confused with some of our fans.

Im seeing a lot of people saying we can't afford FA's and we don't need to overspend for our own FA's. So what exactly is you guys plan in FA?

*Newsflash if you want good players you are going to spend big to sign them. Williams will be one of the top RT's on the market. He will cost a lot. How do people not understand the market?

[LinvilleGorge]

If his knee is healthy, I take Bobby Massie's recently signed contract to Daryl's agent and say, "Take this and add 10% across the board."

Bobby Massie signed a 4 year, $32 million contract with the Chicago Bears on January 31, 2019. Per Brad Biggs, Massie received $15.8 million in guarantees including a $6.5 million signing bonus. Every year of the contract will have a team option and the final year is voidble.