Lamar Jackson requests trade

[Mr. Scot]

Short Answer: No

[SmokinwithWilly]

1 hour ago, TheBigKat said:

Personally, getting Lamar with the way this team is constructed, you’re winning the NFC hands down and I’d do that over selecting an unproven QB.

 

 Lamar needed an agent, that’s clear but the Ravens had every opportunity to lock up Lamar BEFORE the Watson contract even existed. I can’t blame Lamar for wanting more than the Watson contact, he’s flat out better.

 The owners may collude together to try and thwart these fully guaranteed contracts but it just takes 1 out of 31 billionaires who says fug it i want my team to compete for a Super Bowl

 

 Lamar Jackson on this currently constructed team puts Carolina as the #1 team in the NFC

You would dismiss the Eagles and 49ers to just average teams so easily? I don't know that we'd be instant SB favorites. That contract and loss of picks would mean gaping holes at some critical positions over the next few years, not to mention it ignores missing significant playing time the past 2 seasons to even warrant a massive guaranteed contract. 

I don't think the owners are colluding at all. Lamar has dealt with his career from a monetary standpoint very poorly since draft day. His own ignorance is being taken advantage of and rightly so. This is the business side of the NFL and in this area, he's been no MVP. 

[DeAngelo Beason]

Dude is looking for the contract he can retire on.  I don't blame him, but I think he's overestimating his value by a bit... like tens of millions of dollars in guaranteed money.

[Mr. Scot]

2 minutes ago, DeAngelo Beason said:

Dude is looking for the contract he can retire on.  I don't blame him, but I think he's overestimating his value by a bit... like tens of millions of dollars in guaranteed money.

Contract offer from the Ravens included $133 million guaranteed.

How much does Jackson think he needs "to retire on"?

[Raleigh PF]

In the end, I think the three teams that make the most sense for Lamar are Indy, Detroit and Tennessee (Atlanta and Washington have stated they aren't interested). Can't imagine Lamar is too happy with those potential destinations.

[stratocatter]

Well over a hundred million guaranteed.  
 

Who the hell can’t retire one one year of 40 million plus per. He would surely get paid that first year. They’d be guaranteeing the first years wouldn’t they? 
 

It is simple Greed. 

[DeAngelo Beason]

2 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

Contract offer from the Ravens included $133 million guaranteed.

How much does Jackson think he needs "to retire on"?

LOL... totally agree.

[LinvilleGorge]

2 hours ago, DeAngelo Beason said:

Dude is looking for the contract he can retire on.  I don't blame him, but I think he's overestimating his value by a bit... like tens of millions of dollars in guaranteed money.

I mean, he's made about $38M so far. Even after Uncle am's generous cut that's far more money than the vast majority of Americans will ever see.

 

[tukafan21]

1 hour ago, CamWhoaaCam said:

What if they waited after the draft to make a trade?

 

Take Will Anderson #1 then trade the 2 future 1st after the draft.

 

 

Seriously man, your posts are just getting dumber and dumber.

Your proposal here would then mean we gave up 3 firsts, 2 seconds, and DJ Moore for the right to give a $50 million per year fully guaranteed contract to an injury prone QB whose best days are already behind him, instead of saving 2 of those firsts and getting a rookie QB contract.

And yes, I know we'd end up with Anderson as well, but logic is seriously missing from your posts on this topic.

Edited March 28, 2023 by tukafan21

[The Lobo]

3 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

Contract offer from the Ravens included $133 million guaranteed.

How much does Jackson think he needs "to retire on"?

To me, he’s looking at it like”I deserve what Watson got” and he’s right. He’s an mvp, Watson is not. Lamar doesn’t have the baggage that Watson had/has. Now, I’m sure deep down he knows he won’t get a Watson deal, something will get worked out in the end, but this is all the browns fault.

[Ornias]

1 hour ago, CamWhoaaCam said:

What if they waited after the draft to make a trade?

 

Take Will Anderson #1 then trade the 2 future 1st after the draft.

 

 

We don't have a 1st next year. No way they want them starting 2 years from now. 

[Mr. Scot]

3 minutes ago, Ornias said:

We don't have a 1st next year. No way they want them starting 2 years from now. 

We could draft Young or Stroud, trade them to somebody else for three first rounders, turn around and trade two of those first rounders for Jackson and boom!

 

 

 

 

That is, of course, an incredibly stupid idea but it really wouldn't surprise me if somebody got behind it

[stratocatter]

If I were Baltimore I would take two firsts for that guy even if they were from KC. Just get something and get that money off the books and wash hands. It probably isn’t gonna be permanently fixed there. 
 

Now somebody remind me that KC already has a QB…. 

[SmokinwithWilly]

4 hours ago, CamWhoaaCam said:

What if they waited after the draft to make a trade?

 

Take Will Anderson #1 then trade the 2 future 1st after the draft.

 

 

That would put us without our 24, 25 and 26 1sts, 2 2nds and DJ Moore, plus Lamar's contract at 50m per year with a high guaranteed amount. If we did something like this I'd consider the Darnold trade a great deal in comparison. 

You don't move to 1 giving up what we did for an edge rusher. And you damn sure don't give LJ everything the Ravens want and he wants when there are zero other suitors in play. He has screwed this up so badly I don't think he's going to see 133m guaranteed offered again by any team. Teams have been told they can't negotiate with a non registered agent. He's lost every bit of leverage at this point. Baltimore is holding every advantage and if we bailed them and him both out, the entire front office, including Reich should be fired immediately.